Example sentences of "turn to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd thought that it was just the calendar which had been turned to the correct month , but something else had been changed too . |
| 2 | If the disaffiliated Party were to prosper it would have to attract those that had previously turned to the Communist Party . |
| 3 | As a result , the urban masses turned to the Labour Party and the suburbanites in self-defence to the Tories . |
| 4 | His gallops have always impressed me but after a couple of disappointing runs on the flat his attentions were turned to the all-weather surfaces . |
| 5 | In the preceding months the PS had sought to step up pressure on the government ; it had joined with the PCP in tabling a censure motion in parliament in October 1989 attacking the government for its low ethical standards ; although the motion was defeated , attention was again turned to the then Finance Minister , Miguel Ribeiro Cadilhe , following allegations early in the year of his financial misconduct [ see p. 36945 ] . |
| 6 | She explains how she started as an announcer , then turned to the technical side . |
| 7 | In either case , Leapor maintains that common pasturage should not be turned to the sole benefit of anyone . |
| 8 | Now at last attention has been turned to the real problem . |
| 9 | On the contrary , electorates in many countries turned to the political leaders who promised to implement these new policies — Mrs Thatcher in the UK , President Reagan in the United States , and Chancellor Kohl in West Germany . |
| 10 | In a further attempt to save Heveningham Hall for the nation ( see The Art Newspaper No. 14 , January 1992 , p.4 ) the Suffolk Building Preservation Society has turned to the National Heritage Memorial Fund , now under the chairmanship of Lord Rothschild . |
| 11 | Pension schemes are already notoriously complicated , so it is not surprising that lawyers have turned to the actuarial profession to establish valuations of the pension benefits in divorce cases . |
| 12 | Instead , attention should be turned to the universal problem that lies behind the takeover trend : the separation in capitalism of ownership and control . |
| 13 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 14 | It was more prominent through the head having been turned to the opposite side . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | British Rail has turned to the privately-owned North York Moors steam railway at Pickering instead of Brel workshops to repaint six carriages in the colours of Regional Railways . |
| 17 | He opened the hatchway at the end of the counter then turned to the English-speaking Arab . |
| 18 | Then the conversation had turned to the Libyan campaign . |
| 19 | Having addressed themselves to the army and the treasury , the authorities turned to the Orthodox Church . |
| 20 | The calendar beside the clock was turned to the 21st January , 1919 — but was that yesterday 's date or today 's ; had she changed it before she went to bed last night ? |
| 21 | Gooch even turned to the rarely-seen legspin of Robin Smith either side of lunch as England strained for the breakthrough , but Wright and Jones were proving models of self-denial . |
| 22 | Whenever we visited Um Hamed or Um Hamed visited us , conversation inevitably turned to the latest news of a prospective bride . |
| 23 | As the competitive edge to be gained from the physical product decreases , businesses have turned to the added value given by service to discriminate them from their competitors . |
| 24 | ‘ To sustain healthy profit margins , multinational tobacco companies have turned to the Third World for new customers . |
| 25 | He paused , then turned to the younger man . |
| 26 | She turned to the shivering Administrator . |
| 27 | Grinning , he turned to the second card . |
| 28 | The doctor turned to the eldest boy , Michael . |
| 29 | " No you were n't , you were fast asleep , and he turned to the young officer and enquired : " Did you see him asleep , Sir ? " |
| 30 | He turned to the young man who had woken him . |