Example sentences of "[adv] turn [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amazingly , the film takes on instant depth the minute it touches ‘ American ’ soil , suggesting something very like moral ambiguity as Columbus suddenly turns into the hard-arsed imperialist we now fondly imagine him to be . |
| 2 | Voluptuous girlfriends , sisters and mothers constantly turned against the hot dusty wind to secure their cascading glossy hair with plastic bull-dog clips . |
| 3 | In general , though , it was considered taboo — a place scientists should not tread — until the tide apparently turned at the 1986 international conference of human geneticists in Berlin , where participants openly discussed the possibilities . |
| 4 | Johnny had another couple of seasons as a player , but he retired after a nasty fractured cheekbone and broken jaw early in 1962–63 , only to turn to the commercial side of the game and build a new and successful career there . |
| 5 | Although her owners had tried every method of finding her , including local radio appeals , Tim Charlesworth eventually turned to the last resort of hiring a helicopter to help in the search . |
| 6 | But Faye had already turned to the thick , creamy frontispiece to check for herself before leafing through the rest of the volume . |
| 7 | And he just turned round the other belt him ! |
| 8 | He was just turning into the featureless modern office block that housed the Heyes-Farringdon Company where Helen worked , when his eye was suddenly caught by a sign on the other side of the street : The Olivera Typewriter Company . |
| 9 | He hurried on , sighting Clare and Underwood in the distance just turning off the main road up the hill . |
| 10 | ‘ Look , you , ’ he said , finally turning to the chief inspector , ‘ what do you think you 're doing ? ’ |
| 11 | Well we went off , we got off at Peel which was the other side as you know and there was Peel Castle right on the hill there and erm well after , and she said we wo n't go to these sea front cafes , well I know a nice restaurant , she said , up that road , and she said , just turn to the right and there we are , see . |
| 12 | Stan , can I just turn round the other way what you were talking about there ? |
| 13 | A month ago Serbia 's Mr Milosevic formally turned against the Bosnian Serbs , and said he would let no more military help get through to them . |
| 14 | This can be achieved by once more turning to the conceptual framework we have borrowed from Harré et al. |
| 15 | The Tudors also turned to the common law courts to enforce their Forest rights . |
| 16 | It will probably turn on the relative importance of being close to the cash market ( SOFFEX ) as against the synergistic presence of other contracts on the same exchange ( LIFFE ) . |
| 17 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 18 | It wo n't be easy , not with the coffers bare and momentum now turned in the downward direction . |
| 19 | Whenever we visited Um Hamed or Um Hamed visited us , conversation inevitably turned to the latest news of a prospective bride . |
| 20 | More people are now turning to the bottled version as an alternative to tapped |
| 21 | If the pilot then rolls out of the turn to fly straight and level he may feel that he is now turning in the opposite direction , and compensatory eye movements which involuntarily accompany such a feeling may blur vision and make attitude checking difficult , with possible disorientation and loss of aircraft control . |
| 22 | We now turn to the economic benefits derived from work . |
| 23 | ( b ) Nature of modal matrix We now turn to the confluent form of Equation ( 1.16.7 ) , viz. AX = XA , and we shall deal with this by using the example of the numerical matrices A and B above . |
| 24 | I now turn to the second problem I posed earlier . |
| 25 | The foregoing discussion of investment planning represents an essay in definition of the first of these conditions within the context of British capitalism ; I now turn to the second condition , and the relationship between the two . |
| 26 | I now turn to the second problem : If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory , why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones ? |
| 27 | We now turn to the second method of becoming a member and shareholder , i.e . |
| 28 | We now turn to the second main area of intonational discourse function , the regulation of conversational behaviour . |
| 29 | We now turn to the general case , and approach it by means of a simple example . |
| 30 | I now turn to the professional encounters I had in the late 1970s and early 1980s with two senior but very different public figures , Lord Mountbatten and Harold Macmillan ( later Earl of Stockton ) . |