Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] turn [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter case , it will meanwhile have the effect of turning literary study into something much closer to the sociology that Marxists have colonized in the modern academy . |
| 2 | The Solomon Islands Development Trust ( SIDT ) is an independent , indigenous organisation which has attracted world-wide interest throughout the last decade by turning conventional development on its head with a simple premise ; that the villager is the nation 's most valuable resource . |
| 3 | Needless to say , there are many possible ways of turning this rule into practice . |
| 4 | Coleman had a powerful personality , and Smith admitted that he was also a man of great charm , adding ( on unstated evidence ) that ‘ he had all the cleverness of a woman at turning that advantage to account ’ . |
| 5 | The EC hopes that the project , which began last month , will increase user confidence in the potential of the European massively parallel computers and will create a report on high-performance computing in Europe , compiled by CERN director for the EC , concludes that Europe can compete effectively with US companies , traditionally the leaders in the supercomputing field , provided that the support is given to overcome the perennial problem of turning basic research results into competitive products . |
| 6 | Only then can one turn with any success to the second task of turning that view into the formal quantitative language of calculation . |