Example sentences of "to turn to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A traditional critic has the advantage of being able to turn to standards and values inherited from the past . |
| 2 | To look at the work of an art critic in this way we have to turn to historians of taste for the past and to journalists for the present . |
| 3 | I have learned to keep going , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , even when the voices scream at me to stop , to lie down , to turn to something else . |
| 4 | There is also a wealth of support and expertise throughout the health service to turn to when you need help . |
| 5 | So that when Von Lemke came to ‘ us ’ as governor and felt himself overwhelmed by ‘ our ’ troubles and scandal ; s , he had no toy-making to turn to , he had nowhere to go — his version of the abiding Dostoevsky extremity — and in fact he went mad . |
| 6 | This is my pivot on which to turn to the last , and I think most important category of what you call the breakdown of law and order , because it leads us to concentrate our attention not on the silent majority but on another point in society . |
| 7 | Those days Rose dreaded and fretted through and it was a kind of peace to turn to the two girls and the boy . |
| 8 | If I have been primarily expository hitherto ( and I have been because I believe Callinicos ' book to be the best on this subject that we have ) I will now begin to turn to criticism ; or at least to trying to ventilate that reservation which , faced by Callinicos , certainty , will not be stilled . |
| 9 | Once here , the racism they faced in employment often forced them to turn to starting their own business as a means of livelihood . |
| 10 | After Oldsmobile 's factory burned down in 1901 , Ransom E Olds was forced to turn to contractors for the assembly of his single cylinder engine , and gave Leland the opportunity to prove his theory . |
| 11 | This ignorance is compounded by a lack of knowledge of where to turn to for advice , and a fear of direct contact with enforcing authorities . |
| 12 | That is far short of a majority in the 543-member Lok Sabha , but with the opposition still technically divided into half a dozen factions , it would make Congress the biggest single party , and President Venkataraman would have to turn to it . |
| 13 | They may have to turn to the courts for satisfaction . |
| 14 | They may have to turn to the courts for satisfaction . |
| 15 | At the same time , the president of the European Parliament , Mr Enrique Baron , described to the summit the list of demands for increased powers for MEPs to turn to page 24 , col 2 |
| 16 | In the course of the present campaign against corruption , East German newspapers , wireless and television have published urgent appeals to citizens , complete with addresses and telephone numbers to turn to , to report any signs of abuse and malpractice . |
| 17 | The psychological , physical and sexual abuse of weaker members of the family by the stronger is more possible when there are no casual droppers-in , no family friends to turn to , no habit of exchanging confidences . |
| 18 | Paulus proceeded to turn to jelly , while Sanchez , the French Open champion , steeled herself and emerged a 6-4 , 6-7 , 7-5 winner . |
| 19 | Even with an Architect , problems may arise and it is then many people have found out how pleased they were to have an Architect at hand to turn to . |
| 20 | Faced with dwindling sales and stiffer competition , all luxury-goods firms need to turn to the boring disciplines that many have dismissed as suitable for widget-makers , but hardly appropriate for a trade where cachet brings in the cash . |
| 21 | Yet , like other places , Utah has to turn to low-tech services to soak up its growing numbers of literate job-hunters . |
| 22 | I pretended not to notice it , and , as the students listened with bated breath , instructed them to turn to page thirty in Jespersen . |
| 23 | All such cases need an alternative approach to the problem of origin and it is natural to turn to scientific techniques to see if they have something to offer . |
| 24 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 25 | I would now like to turn to the symbol of the Virgin Mary in the light of this discussion . |
| 26 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 27 | Never an assiduous Bible reader , though while mother was alive she used to read a few verses for her sake , she now began to turn to it more and more in search of enlightenment but her head swam when she tried to read . |
| 28 | I want now to turn to a less philosophical question about my passage from my armchair to the kitchen . |
| 29 | On this tour there was also a tour manager , who invited us to turn to him in case of need or trouble . |
| 30 | The second part of the plan was to turn to the Tories ' own strong issues for the last 10 days : defence , foreign policy , law and order and — hard though it is in a recession — the economy . |