Example sentences of "turn [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a report in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Jan. 10 , 1990 , the European Commission of Human Rights , to which plaintiffs turned in the first instance , had registered 1,445 cases brought by individuals or private organizations in 1989 ( a 40 per cent increase on the previous year ) . |
| 2 | Although her owners had tried every method of finding her , including local radio appeals , Tim Charlesworth eventually turned to the last resort of hiring a helicopter to help in the search . |
| 3 | ‘ To sustain healthy profit margins , multinational tobacco companies have turned to the Third World for new customers . |
| 4 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 5 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |
| 6 | ‘ Once the Springboks tired , the tide turned in the second half . |
| 7 | But the tide turned in the second game of the second set when Graf finally broke serve on her fourth break point . |
| 8 | Grinning , he turned to the second card . |
| 9 | She turned to the next cutting in the hope of finding a less lurid account of the case . |
| 10 | With a sigh she turned to the next patient , smiling as a young woman carried a small child into the room . |
| 11 | She turned to the next sheet of cuttings , and began to read an article from the Sun . |
| 12 | He turned to the next item on his desk , a note on top of a copy-pad which said : ‘ Morley stpd lttle prck . |
| 13 | I turned to the third passenger . |
| 14 | He turned to the last report made by the investigating officer before the file was consigned to Records . |
| 15 | Idly Theodora turned to the last page . |
| 16 | Setting the briefcase back down , she dug the notes out of the pocket and turned to the last page , smiling rather nastily . |
| 17 | If no such solution can be found , we impose the constraint that the first objective function should not drop below its optimal value before turning to the second objective . |
| 18 | Both cases can be covered by imposing the additional constraint and then turning to the second objective . |
| 19 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 20 | Turning to the third question , repeat doses of activated charcoal are thought to act in several ways . |
| 21 | Turning to the third category , of strokes that serve to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes that either precede or follow , we could call them ‘ separation strokes ’ We find strokes in such patterns as shown in ex.3a so overwhelmingly , that we can identify sporadic dots as shrunken strokes . |
| 22 | In order to investigate the operation of such constraints , we will first look at some theoretical models which cast light on the various problems involved in the government-management " game " , before turning to the next section to consider some features of the control structure in the UK , so as to see some practical illustrations of the points . |
| 23 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |
| 24 | ‘ I think Hasan sort of turns into the Twenty-fourth Imam , ’ said Robert . |
| 25 | Author of All the Sweet Promises turns to the first World War . |
| 26 | Financial difficulties caused by the fall in the oil price in the late 1980s and by the increasing budget deficit forced the government to turn for the first time to the international financial markets . |
| 27 | In such studies , to which we turn in the next chapter , it will be necessary to consider yet other components which have frequently entered into the definition of style . |
| 28 | Hence the importance of audits by competent and independent auditors — to which we turn in the next chapter . |
| 29 | The answers to these questions will be found in the analysis of cultural-ideological transnational practices and , in particular , the culture-ideology of consumerism in the Third World , to which I turn in the next chapter . |
| 30 | It is to these questions that we turn in the next section . |