Example sentences of "[vb base] turn [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people , Miss Schlegel , invented Disneyland and now want to turn the rest of the world into a theme park , too , by bribing ancient and civilised peoples to caper and prance for thuggish tourists . |
| 2 | ‘ The Conservatives want to turn the NHS into an industry , they say that will bring a better service to the consumer , but health should n't be an industry . ’ |
| 3 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
| 4 | And then you try to turn the argument about attacks on individuals . |
| 5 | In the two years since it was formed it has attracted $6m in venture capital and another $4m from big-name strategic partners , on the promise that the application development environment it 's designing would be a significant enough advance to turn the company into a nine-digit revenue producer . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been offered a sum that would buy my house twice over to pose for topless pictures like that and I 've turned every offer down flat . ’ |
| 7 | Yes , they 've turned the people in this district round from the way they were heading . |
| 8 | a ‘ quick-service hatch ’ and lots of ‘ go ’ have turned a liability into a success . |
| 9 | At this year 's Chelsea Flower show , a group of prisoners walked off with a silver medal for a garden display.And at the prison itself , they 've been busy creating borders and features that have turned a jail into an oasis of colour . |
| 10 | By comparison the PIRA may view its action as of little consequence — a perverted act of war in a vicious campaign — but they would be wrong for , by this act on top of so many others , they have turned the Ireland of hope and dreams into a nightmare of guilt , shame , resentment , remorse , anger and grief . |
| 11 | Had there been sufficient daylight I believe I could , that evening , have turned the tables on the tigress , for the conditions , after she left the shelter of the rocks , were all in my favour . |
| 12 | The more extreme designers have turned the jacket into a frock coat , emphasizing the Edwardian feel . |
| 13 | The living amphibians have turned the limitations of the aqueous connection to advantage . |
| 14 | It appears that Sludds and Darcy have turned the championship into a two-horse race . |
| 15 | In this case , the writer 's revisions have turned the meaning of the original into its opposite : the original ( a ) says that stylistics is rarely an exercise in describing what use is made of language ; but the revision ( b ) says that stylistics should be defined as an exercise in describing what use is made of language . |
| 16 | Children need reassurance , praise and success , we need to turn every child into a winner so that they will grow into good , caring and generous adults . |
| 17 | ‘ City Challenge provides us with an opportunity of getting the funding we need to turn the plans into bricks and mortar . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You need to turn the tables on Cawthorne if you really want to stitch him up . ’ |
| 19 | You now have to turn a mass of information into a coherent argument . |
| 20 | Plainly , individual journalists have individual styles but ultimately they have to turn the result of meeting you into the type of article their publication requires . |