Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] turned [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 2 | In the country , the underlying tide of opinion is favourable to Labour : in six months , Gallup 's ‘ fitness to govern ’ test has turned from a negative to a positive while , remarkably , two-thirds of respondents believe they would be better off under Labour . |
| 3 | The middle class revolt has turned to a whimper . |
| 4 | They are in charge of world-famous clubs , but the job has turned into a nightmare for the pair of them . |
| 5 | But the whole music business has turned into a service industry , and it 's ‘ give the people what they want ’ . |
| 6 | Since I married again , I have had more children , but my second wife has turned into a shadow . ’ |
| 7 | Bank Assistants were told there was room at the top , but this mirage has turned into a desert of empty dry promises , sun bleached skeletons of the fallen victims and descending spirals of the vultures , vigilant for the weak . |
| 8 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |