Example sentences of "[noun] has turned [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , pump-priming has turned into a bottomless pit for the Treasury , in spite of the reinvestment of large receipts from land sales . |
| 2 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 3 | The University has turned round a large trading loss in one year . |
| 4 | TROUBLED Graeme Hick has turned to a shrink to help break his Test hoodoo in India this winter . |
| 5 | Film Crocodile tear-jerker Little Steven has turned into a cynical old showman . |
| 6 | In the country , the underlying tide of opinion is favourable to Labour : in six months , Gallup 's ‘ fitness to govern ’ test has turned from a negative to a positive while , remarkably , two-thirds of respondents believe they would be better off under Labour . |
| 7 | The middle class revolt has turned to a whimper . |
| 8 | They are in charge of world-famous clubs , but the job has turned into a nightmare for the pair of them . |
| 9 | But the whole music business has turned into a service industry , and it 's ‘ give the people what they want ’ . |
| 10 | Since I married again , I have had more children , but my second wife has turned into a shadow . ’ |
| 11 | In the latest number , The Body ( Penguin , £6.99 ) , the John Buchan among editors has turned into a David Cronenberg . |
| 12 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |
| 13 | To be sure , the modern West has turned into a corrupt and greedy Scrooge , with each affluent nation ever-reluctant to share its gross national product with a starving and emaciated Third World . |
| 14 | Bank Assistants were told there was room at the top , but this mirage has turned into a desert of empty dry promises , sun bleached skeletons of the fallen victims and descending spirals of the vultures , vigilant for the weak . |
| 15 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |