Example sentences of "[noun] turn [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once the Springboks tired , the tide turned in the second half . |
| 2 | But the tide turned in the second game of the second set when Graf finally broke serve on her fourth break point . |
| 3 | Author of All the Sweet Promises turns to the first World War . |
| 4 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |
| 5 | Idly Theodora turned to the last page . |
| 6 | Master Mansell INDYCAR points leader Nigel Mansell turned in the second fastest time today in the first day of qualifying for tomorrow 's Detroit Grand Prix . |
| 7 | Financial difficulties caused by the fall in the oil price in the late 1980s and by the increasing budget deficit forced the government to turn for the first time to the international financial markets . |
| 8 | Their Lordships turn to the first of the orders under appeal , namely the order of Barnett J. refusing to overturn the decision of Judge Cameron not to grant a perpetual stay of the Barclays ( Asia ) prosecution . |
| 9 | According to a report in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Jan. 10 , 1990 , the European Commission of Human Rights , to which plaintiffs turned in the first instance , had registered 1,445 cases brought by individuals or private organizations in 1989 ( a 40 per cent increase on the previous year ) . |
| 10 | In the economics of oligopolistic markets the distinction between ‘ explicit ’ and ‘ tacit ’ collusion turns on the first of these elements . |