Example sentences of "[verb] to turn [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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1 | Plants now began to turn the flying skills of the insects to their own advantage . |
2 | If he ever decided to turn the full wattage of his charm on a woman , she thought , distractedly folding some of her clothes into neat piles , he 'd be quite irresistible . |
3 | The budget aimed to turn an effective deficit of over 10,000 million crowns ( US$1.00=16.9702 crowns as at March 26 , 1990 ) , as envisaged in the original draft budget for 1990 prepared by the previous communist regime , into a real surplus of 5,400 million crowns , primarily by cutting subsidies to economic bodies ( including agricultural co-operatives ) by 10 per cent , by cutting spending on defence and security by 12.5 per cent , and by cancelling subsidies of 1,200 million crowns for the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( CPCz ) . |
4 | WORK to turn an empty block of flats into homes for the elderly has been given the go-ahead . |
5 | SCIENTISTS in the US are planning to turn a cubic kilometre of the Antarctic ice sheet into a giant ‘ neutrino telescope ’ . |