Example sentences of "[noun] turn [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The cycle route turns sharp right and passes the West Gate entrance to Hopetoun House , Scotland 's finest Adam mansion and home of the Marquess of Linlithgow . |
| 2 | So , the wheel turns full circle , and the question is again asked , if there is a medical view regarding the determination of sex , what arguments exist for having a legal concept which coexists , but is not coextensive ? |
| 3 | Wheel turns full circle |
| 4 | CHEEKY Coronation Street star Ken Morley turned perfect angel yesterday to launch the Post Office 's set of Christmas stamps . |
| 5 | Heads turned that night when Senator Jared Tunstall and his wife entered the ballroom at Devonshire House . |
| 6 | Defender turned star striker Paul Warhurst passed a fitness test after recovering from the groin injury that forced him to pull out of the England squad . |
| 7 | Escalation of Western military pressure , he said , " risks turning this exclusion zone into an explosion zone … harmful to the interests of the West and the Arab world " . |
| 8 | Merrill 's heart plumetted as the wheel turned full circle again . |
| 9 | Will the wheel of industry turn full circle ? |
| 10 | Yet they reckon it could set a bad example elsewhere in Eastern Europe ( Czechoslovakia ) as well as in bigger , more important places ( India and , when their worries turn that way , the Soviet Union ) . |
| 11 | The so-called ‘ hard ’ deep-discounters turn this logic on its head . |
| 12 | While it is not my intention to turn conventional theory on its head , it often happens that theories become accepted facts because people simply repeat them , without anyone ever questioning them . |
| 13 | Can Edward turn next year into an annus mirabilis ? |
| 14 | The hectic action started in November with Clive Rice 's public-relations visit to India — Wessels 's successes on the tour earned him the man-of-the-series award — and ended six months later in frustration as the West Indians turned imminent defeat into a remarkable victory in one session on the final day of an historic Test , denying two excellent half-centuries by Wessels and Andrew Hudson 's debut century , the first for South Africa . |
| 15 | It has been stoked primarily by Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Russian vice-president , who has warned that it may be time to review Khrushchev 's gift of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 , and by President Kravchuk , a Communist Party boss turned Ukrainian nationalist . |
| 16 | Our chartered Sunsail 350 , La Pietra , rode contentedly with the other anchored boats in the shimmering heat of the afternoon , and it was not until the sun turned bright orange and began to drop rapidly seawards that anyone in the boat felt like stirring . |
| 17 | And John Millar will reveal all — well , a bit — about bad boy turned good guy Christian Slater and his latest movie True Romance . |
| 18 | At the three stone cairns turn sharp right and head downhill to the edge of the forest . |
| 19 | Rachel 's skin turned dusky gold . |
| 20 | The implicit assumption here is that it may be best to leave nuclear weapons in a partial legal limbo , with an extremely strong presumption against the legality of their use , but with no formal and explicit rules turning this presumption into treaty language and adding detail to it . |
| 21 | In his first season at Arsenal he was cast in the role of footballer turned male model . |
| 22 | Why did he follow J R Ewing , the epitome of 1980s TV , with a western about a gunfighter turned foster father ? |
| 23 | Popular revolt begins to shake Romania , the last domino of Eastern Europe Hero of heroes turns Stalinist dinosaur . |
| 24 | A gargled sound came from the doorway and every eye turned that way . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was the shock , but the band turned heavy metal not long after . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was the shock , but the band turned heavy metal not long after . |
| 27 | John is an ex-international steeplechaser turned entrepreneurial agent , and he and Kim McDonald both do a fine job , mostly for distance runners , in finding all-important overseas competition for British athletes . |
| 28 | SO , the install routine alters an INI file to turn 32 bit disk access off . |
| 29 | Their head turns glossy green with a double ‘ necklace ’ of white stripes on the neck , and the back develops a startling ‘ chequerboard ’ of black and white . |
| 30 | All of a sudden , the kidnapper turns perfect hostess . |