Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] turned [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps not to be wondered that when the clouds of war then appeared , those in high places turned a speculative eye on this , the greatest privately-owned railway organisation in the world , with facilities and space , equipped in a wide range , from precision tools to mighty hammers , forges , foundries , and a tradition of skilled craftsmanship grafted to modern organisational and administrative ability , for a possible source of production of the sinews of war . |
| 2 | We met when I was researching some material on community care , and her great good humour and flawless memory for fascinating aspects of social history turned a one-off interview into an intermittently enjoyed friendship . |
| 3 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 4 | James 's pudgy face turned a dull red . |
| 5 | A jealous rival turned the lovely Etain into a fly and she was carried away by the winds . |
| 6 | HUNDREDS of motorists drove into a gooey mess as heavy rain turned a newly-laid road into a swamp . |
| 7 | EVIL robbers turned a terrified bank guard into a human bomb and threatened to blow him up before stealing £23 million in cash . |
| 8 | EVIL robbers turned a terrified bank guard into a human bomb and threatened to blow him up before stealing £23 million in cash . |
| 9 | This was the normal relaxation of a king 's leisure : Henry I of Germany was so keen a huntsman that he ‘ would take forty or more wild beasts in a day ’ ; the Norman kings turned a substantial proportion of their kingdom into game preserves ; hunting was the natural sport of a militant aristocracy , venting on animals the energy and spleen left over from fighting their own kind . |
| 10 | Torrential rain turned the main street through Peterchurch into a fast flowing river — cutting the village off and catching it 's residents by surprise . |
| 11 | Such overt aggression turned the Labour Party away from pacifism and towards the acceptance of a degree of force to implement collective security . |
| 12 | After the Western allies turned the western part of Germany into a sovereign state , the Soviets followed suit and the German Democratic Republic was founded on 7 October 1949 . |
| 13 | His sallow face turned a dull pink and his voice , never particularly strong or resonant , became a querulous squeak . |
| 14 | Dublin had feared that up to £6 billion in EC aid could be lost if pro-life campaigners turned the forthcoming referendum seeking approval for the Maastricht Treaty into a plebiscite on abortion . |
| 15 | The whole hand turned a deep shade of scarlet , the flesh itself heating up . |