Example sentences of "[verb] to turn [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour Party insists that self-governing trusts ( hospitals which choose to opt out of health-authority control and manage their own affairs ) are in fact opting out of the NHS altogether ; and that doctors who control their own budgets are going to turn queue-jumping at hospitals into a business practice . |
| 2 | Hardy suggests two types of strategy which may be used to turn conflict into competition or argument , or to manage it in some other acceptable way . |
| 3 | Brewer 's yeast is used to turn sugar into alcohol — a process that also generates carbon dioxide which puts the fizz in Champagne . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While they , unlike Feuerbach , certainly did not intend to turn theology into anthropology , did they nevertheless risk doing precisely that ? |
| 6 | The Profitboss succeeds because he is determined to turn failure into success . |
| 7 | ‘ You have to turn possession into goals and it 's a worry because we 've played games this season — and this was another one — where we 've dominated and come away with nothing . ’ |
| 8 | The watching Kenny Dalglish , manager of Blackburn Rovers who Leicester visit on Saturday , must have been impressed with their football although they had failed to turn possession into goals by half-time . |