Example sentences of "to turn [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Paneth and Peters tried to turn hydrogen into helium they were following in the traditions of the ancient alchemists who wanted to convert base metals into gold . |
| 2 | At every turn the successful teacher strives to capitalise on the child 's exceptionality , to turn difficulty into opportunity . |
| 3 | Governments could do little to turn immorality into morality , or bad characters into good . |
| 4 | Behind his back they were doing their utmost , he suspected , to turn Sien against him . |
| 5 | They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all . |
| 6 | He therefore ordered Plehve 's Fifth Army to turn west to overlap and cut off the intruding and , so he supposed , insignificant Austrian thrust . |
| 7 | Colchester 's ability to turn defence into attack finally divided the teams and they went on to win 15–7 . |
| 8 | Then came the invaders from unstable , religiously divided Europe to turn paradise into hell . |
| 9 | There is a proposal to turn part of the building into a museum of pharmacy ; at the moment it still functions partially as a hospital . |
| 10 | It 's planned to turn part of the site into a detention centre for the immigration service . |
| 11 | The big challenge that BT faces in the future though , is to turn ISDN into a mass-market technology by installing it in every home by default . |
| 12 | But the latest in a succession of applications to turn Oxmoor Farm at Heighington into a hotel and restaurant was refused . |
| 13 | What frightened him most was the still figure of William Tanner lying prone beside the office wall , blood already beginning to turn dark on his battered face . |
| 14 | Steven manages to turn car right at end of road after seven-minute wait for break in the traffic . |
| 15 | It took a long , cold and drenching effort to clear the surfline before we were able to turn side on to the waves to make progress along the coast . |
| 16 | After a visit to a prison , where he supplied an inmate with cannabis , his car was searched and found to have glassware , knife blades , bicarbonate of soda and gauze filters which was equipment used to turn cocaine hydrochloride into free base cocaine . |
| 17 | The first appearance at away matches of massive groups of skinheads , all uniformly dressed and intent on smashing their opponents into the ground , must have been rather unnerving for the managers of those clubs who were hoping to turn football watching into a family outing . |
| 18 | Great Britain had been associated with the stabilizing system by a skilful use of her Mediterranean fears , although Bismarck failed to turn association into alliance in 1889 . |
| 19 | These manoeuvres were doomed to failure , for both Ruzski and Brusilov had been ordered to turn northwest , with the object of taking in rear all Austrian forces engaged with , or pursuing , Plehve . |
| 20 | The consequence of turning an aggressive , egoistic drive back against the self in this characteristic way was to turn egoism into altruism , and aggression into self-punishment and guilt . |
| 21 | So , for example , moves were made to turn revenue spending ( i.e. which had to be paid for out of current income — grants , fees , charges and rates ) into capital spending ( i.e. which could be paid for from loans raised from banks and other financial institutions ) . |
| 22 | One of them , an ageing villain named Alfred Mathews , was subsequently found and arrested , and in exchange for not being prosecuted , agreed to turn Queen 's evidence and name his accomplices : David Cooper , Michael McMahon and Patrick Murphy , all petty thieves from the East End but with no record of violence . |
| 23 | He was aware of the strong emotional needs people had for certainty and for a surrogate parental-authority figure , and he was always wary of the tendency among some to turn psychoanalysis into a religious system , and perhaps himself into a sacred authority . |
| 24 | But unlike Donald White , Hall had been able to turn fantasy into reality . |
| 25 | We can not afford to turn work away and we can not afford to lose work , ’ a spokesman for Babcock Thorn , Rosyth 's management company , said last night . |
| 26 | All they could do now was to turn Moat Hall upside down in the forlorn hope something remained in the near-derelict place to hint at its erstwhile owner 's present refuge . |
| 27 | While they , unlike Feuerbach , certainly did not intend to turn theology into anthropology , did they nevertheless risk doing precisely that ? |
| 28 | Building for fun Eurodisney is the spearhead of a movement that aims to turn architecture into a branch of show-business . |
| 29 | He did not appear to be the type which could be persuaded to turn traitor . |
| 30 | No magic formula to turn sorrow into joy |