Example sentences of "it could turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against all reason they felt it could turn his slow decline around like a Lourdes ' miracle . |
| 2 | Yet it could turn nasty . |
| 3 | There are some steamy bed scene , which may be too hot for most of Kylie 's young fans to see , but it could turn a whole new audience on to her charms . |
| 4 | If it succeeds , it could turn the personal computer business upside down , by delivering what the PC always promised but has never quite achieved : the ability to work where and how you please , no matter what computer you are using or how limited your knowledge . |
| 5 | In the wet months it could turn into a quagmire . |
| 6 | What was at best a speculative investment six months ago by five of the six major accountancy bodies , the BBC and accountancy trainers BPP , looks now as if it could turn into a roaring success . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's no reason at the moment to suppose it 's not benign , but if we don t take it out , it could turn nasty . |
| 8 | By the time The Memory Palace reaches the UK at the end of the year , it could turn out to be a real blast . |
| 9 | It could turn out to be a big job . |
| 10 | Ironically , too , it could turn out that much less goes on physically when John sees Mary and tells Dick about it , than when John gives Mary a black eye that tells Dick of his blow . |
| 11 | At any time it could turn into a strident chorus , a demand for humanity . |
| 12 | It is the fact that it could turn into science , and promote a beguiling vision of mastery over nature , that has forced historians to reconsider the usual antithesis between occult and rational mentalities . |
| 13 | It could turn out eventually that losing your job has led to a whole new and better career . |
| 14 | Thus , it could turn out that a difference is best accounted for not by the first social variable that you quantify ( for example , social class ) , but by a second or third one ( for example , sex of speaker ) . |
| 15 | It 's the news that we knew that 's all that it could turn out to be , but it was just waiting to hear for it officially and going all through these months . |
| 16 | The pickets knew what to expect : they 'd been warned it could turn nasty , and it did . |
| 17 | Euphemistic references to police aggression are also apparent in the ITN account , as in ‘ it could turn nasty , and it did ’ , where the agent and object of the violence ( i.e. who did what to whom ) remain unspecified . |
| 18 | In small gardens of the National Trust it could turn out to be the rule rather than the exception . |
| 19 | And it could turn out that the car I left on the Foulness road was stolen from a car park in Colchester or somewhere . |
| 20 | And with luck , it could turn out to be a bit of gang warfare which nobody is — unofficially , of course — ; going to bust a gut trying to solve . |
| 21 | ‘ It could turn out a wet sail . |
| 22 | ( Although it could turn into ‘ My lad played a blinder for St Noggins U13 B team yesterday ’ I suppose . ) |
| 23 | He remembered Charity saying something about Anpetuwi being a bit magic — it could turn even bad things around so that they were good . |
| 24 | It could turn out to be one of the stickiest issues facing the parties , but for once , everyone is having their cake and eating it too . |
| 25 | You 've got er , a sh , a T , we knew it was a T , but it could turn to different shapes , |