Example sentences of "[verb] turn a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er looking at the rest of the P and L , you will see that we have split out a profit on sale of fixed assets which is our Lakeside erm Capelat and the Capco shares er which is why the corporate expenses for this other income has turned a way round , it 's gon na be negative nowadays , so we thought it 'd look a little silly saying other income less expenses . |
| 2 | The movie business has turned a bit more reticent about the art world since Glimcher 's folly . |
| 3 | From a financial point of view , the insurance has turned a disaster into an inconvenience . |
| 4 | You know when I want to turn a corner I 've got to stand on my toes and put my full weight on it to turn it . |
| 5 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
| 6 | It was the Malaysia Rubber Producers ' Research Association that helped to turn a concept known as ‘ base isolation ’ into reality at the University of California . |
| 7 | The arrangement for raising the curtain was a matter of gear wheels designed to turn a rod to wind the metal mesh up onto it like a blind . |
| 8 | At every stride he has to turn a corner |
| 9 | It risks turning a triumph into an irrelevance . |
| 10 | ‘ The car seemed to turn a lot . |
| 11 | Of course , I looked more confident than earlier in the Test , but then everyone did once the ball had stopped turning a yard . |
| 12 | But this is a plot development — the plot development — and , if it involves turning a couple of Aled Jones types into Oliver Reeds , why let logic get in the way ? |
| 13 | It is this procedure , which involves turning a reductionist methodology into a reductionist philosophy , that is the manoeuvre so popular among molecular biologists and some geneticists , but , fortunately , is rather rarer among psychologists or neurobiologists . |
| 14 | Rohmer was not going to turn a gun on him again , and he was not going to allow this to happen . |
| 15 | This regulatory code is put to even greater effect when it is used to turn an exchange of missiles between rioters and police into a surreal game of football in which the rules have been deliberately bent to give the ‘ opposing team ’ an unfair advantage ! |
| 16 | The computer has dealt what will prove to be a mortal blow to the ‘ priesthood ’ of printing — those who have spent many years gaining the skills needed to turn a typescript into a printed page . |
| 17 | The private farmers pay more for everything than the collectives , labour materials , taxes , yet they 're beginning to turn a profit from the soil . |
| 18 | A turning-point in the book comes in Acts , chapter 10 , where the mission of making Jesus known turns a corner , and the non-Jewish world , the Gentiles , are included in God 's salvation plan . |
| 19 | Marr would n't have turned a hair on that , thought Theodora , but she said nothing . |
| 20 | Mr Hellyer , who was in fact too nice-minded to do so , could have sworn , blasphemed , and Oliver would not have turned a hair . |
| 21 | She was carrying more rivets than the average U-Boat and would probably have turned a compass away from Magnetic North . |
| 22 | Endill sat beside him and he started turning a handle at the front of it . |
| 23 | It does not try to turn a Scot into an Englishman , or suppose a recruit 's upbringing has no bearing on his suitability for officer training , or pretend that men and woman have identical abilities . |
| 24 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 25 | Eschewing both rutted ‘ autoroute ’ and ‘ Paris-Dakar ’ engineering , ten couples somehow cajoled their 2CVs across the Sahara and eight survived to turn a brain-storm into an annual rally . |
| 26 | The fat cook pushed him out of the way , coming to turn a pan of potatoes roasting under spitted beef . |
| 27 | Subsequent or alternative drinks had to be paid for at saloon-bar prices , so Clive managed to turn a profit on the evening . |
| 28 | These are n't in the same league as the gas variety when it comes to providing ‘ real ’ flames , but there 's a wide variety available , and they can just add that cosy finishing touch which helps turn a house into a home . |
| 29 | None of the others appear to have turned a wheel again . |
| 30 | There is , too , the appalling possibility that the corrupting tendency of power would operate to turn a meritocracy into a Nomenklatura . |