Example sentences of "[noun] of turn a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the simple action of turning a tap , however , lies a vast network of pumping stations , treatment works , laboratories , reservoirs , pipes and people — from engineers , scientists and maintenance workers to administrative staff — all working to ensure a high quality water supply . |
| 2 | The man was in the act of turning a page , and , in so doing , he momentarily exposed its front cover , which Harry had , till now , only seen at a distance . |
| 3 | Authors had to economize in the number of illustrations they used , and readers had to get into the habit of turning a number of pages to find a relevant picture . |
| 4 | Several colleagues remember her habit of turning a design to one side and the other and back again lest anything in it could be viewed as a tiny insect or wild animal 's eyes , thus creating horrible fear for an imaginative child . |
| 5 | It is simply the number of people involved that makes this impossible , as well as the difficulties of focusing their activities , in an orderly fashion , on the single objective of turning an idea into a reality . |
| 6 | I know for a fact she 's had her eye on my mother 's matinée jacket collection for years and when I once , in passing , said I wondered what happened to those old prosthetic devices in the estates of deceased senior citizens , Madge let it slip that she knew a way of turning a Zimmer frame into an attractive lamp ! ’ |
| 7 | But barbed wire is a somewhat crude way of turning a guest into an inmate . |
| 8 | The busker who plays Chariots Of Fire on a Casio organ at Bank would leave it in a trice if only he could think of some other way of turning a penny . |
| 9 | It is right that our procedures should be subject to challenge and change , but her idea of turning a Government Advisory Unit into some kind of Oxford tutorial is an absurd perversion of everything that has been so slowly and painstakingly developed over the years . |