Example sentences of "[vb infin] to turn [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the most spectacular humiliation suffered by any major European state during the seventeenth century ; and Louis did not hesitate to turn the knife in the wound . |
| 2 | We are not in competition but are part of the same team , and so , in that spirit , I would like to turn the spotlight on our existing systems and make some fairly revolutionary suggestions . |
| 3 | It does not try to turn a Scot into an Englishman , or suppose a recruit 's upbringing has no bearing on his suitability for officer training , or pretend that men and woman have identical abilities . |
| 4 | But the new Headmaster did not try to turn the School into a Technical School with a full science curriculum . |
| 5 | But there were some people you know on a smallish farm , they did n't have an oil engine , then they would have to turn the scrapper by hand . |
| 6 | Although housework is work they say , we would have to turn the ideology of our culture on its head to analyse it in such a manner . |
| 7 | How did he always manage to turn the tables on her like that ? |
| 8 | There is , too , the appalling possibility that the corrupting tendency of power would operate to turn a meritocracy into a Nomenklatura . |