Example sentences of "turned [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The automobile has turned the city inside out , ranging new communities around the periphery and letting the centre rot : not far from the centre is an old slum district where the gangs operate . |
| 2 | Financial markets are apprehensive that the trade deficit has still not turned the corner and a poor figure could shake sterling again . |
| 3 | The blood was oozing out from the tip of his boot and his face had turned the usual grey colour of the soldier who had been wounded . |
| 4 | But , on balance , the government seemed able to claim that it had turned the tide , albeit with the aid of £2 billions from North Sea oil to swing the balance into surplus . |
| 5 | Half the faces in the stalls were turned the wrong way , trying to see what the fuss was about in the back row . |
| 6 | But the moment Vincente 's back was turned the ball tended to squirt off at eccentric angles — or , worse , refuse to move at all . |
| 7 | He has some improving to do if he is to develop into a genuine Gold Cup hope but being only a six-year-old and trained by the man who has turned the joke ‘ the impossible we do at once , miracles take a little longer . ’ |
| 8 | He has some improving to do if he is to develop into a genuine Gold Cup hope but being only a six-year-old and trained by the man who has turned the joke ‘ the impossible we do at once , miracles take a little longer . ’ |
| 9 | Even more crucially , the TUC 's tactics had turned the press against them and provoked the opposition of the nurses ' negotiators . |
| 10 | The knocking stopped and Isabel Lavender , who had turned the key in her door , went back to trying on the old , brown skirt . |
| 11 | In four years Kvaerner has all but turned the business round after investing £30m in a new fabrication shed , welding technology , training and working hard at producing a culture change . |
| 12 | It all made good sense at the time , but it has turned the middle-classes into sitting ducks , waiting to be plucked by Mr Smith . |
| 13 | John Beck 's unfashionable team have turned the derided ‘ long ball ’ game into something of an art form , but their aerial bombardment of the Wolves goal failed to bring them the victory that would have enhanced their promotion prospects . |
| 14 | The mix of the original architect 's unusual commitment to the concept of asymmetry , the previous inhabitants ' rabid fetish for amassing ridiculous quantities of Victorian bric-à-brac and '30s kitsch , and Amelia 's own declared desire to keep her environment in a state of constant flux had turned the place into a confused and confusing labyrinth . |
| 15 | The living amphibians have turned the limitations of the aqueous connection to advantage . |
| 16 | The drivers had turned the vehicles back towards the highway to be ready to move the moment the men , weapons and ammunition were loaded . |
| 17 | Once the water has turned the generator , it will be discharged back into the river in exactly the same state and volume as abstracted . |
| 18 | The Israelis had turned the Damiani soap factory into a municipal museum but you could still see the family 's name in fading Arabic letters on the archway at one end of the building . |
| 19 | The Israelis had turned the old Arab buildings south of the serail into a shopping and restaurant precinct , a tastefully laid out tourist attraction in which the best architectural features have been preserved . |
| 20 | In return for the money received by Northern Ireland from the British taxpayer , the Unionists had turned the British flag into a party-political symbol and had made a mockery of the British tradition of social justice . |
| 21 | Paid holidays , more affluence and cheaper travel have turned the last few decades into an era of travel . |
| 22 | Callahan had turned the colour of flour with all the wheatgerm kicked out of it . |
| 23 | She had n't turned the light out , and now , propped up by her pillows , the bedclothes tucked under her chin , she sat staring straight ahead . |
| 24 | In some cases referral is essential , but this chapter will show that for many the CAB is developing specialist in-depth expertise that has turned the tables such that the CAB is now becoming the agency to whom clients are referred . |
| 25 | He pointed out that Scott 's argument that his building would harmonize with the Abbey and contrast with Downing Street could be as easily turned the other way , and continued : |
| 26 | When Scotland played Wales at Liverpool in the dramatic World Cup qualifier , he miraculously pushed a John Toshack lob onto the bar , a save that turned the game in Scotland 's favour , and set the seal on Scotland 's trip to Argentina . |
| 27 | Despite the number living in what was quite a small cottage , Mrs. Burden had turned the front room into a shop selling tobacco , confectionery and small oddments . |
| 28 | Since it is hard to see how in any respect , in the context of interdicts , legacies could have been brought into line with trusts , at the very least we must suppose that the compilers have turned the text around , writing of making legacies equivalent to trusts where Ulpian had written of making trusts equivalent to legacies . |
| 29 | At the beginning of the Triassic the dominant land animals were the mammal-like reptiles , the synapsids , although they had already been badly affected by dramatic events at the end of the Permian ; catastrophic events of the kind that are now known to have turned the course of Earth 's history several times . |
| 30 | Had there been sufficient daylight I believe I could , that evening , have turned the tables on the tigress , for the conditions , after she left the shelter of the rocks , were all in my favour . |