Example sentences of "[was/were] to turn [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anthropologists from centres of learning in New Guinea or the Congo were to turn the tables on us and publish studies of the behaviour patterns found among the English-speaking peoples of Great Britain and the United States , one phenomenon to which they would surely pay special attention would be the cult of Child Psychology . |
| 2 | Second , they were to turn the regime into a permanent institution , capable of withstanding the vagaries of circumstantial change and of surviving Franco 's own eventual demise . |
| 3 | His conclusion was to turn the tables on those in the West who defended Mr Rushdie . |
| 4 | Murrells ' great dream , to which he dedicated himself entirely , was to turn the Masai into a productive peasantry . |
| 5 | Two Afghans , among several arrested trying to cross the border , ‘ admitted that they belonged to an intelligence group entrusted with the organisation of an underground anti-Soviet movement in Tadjikistan , whose purpose was to turn the republic into an Islamic state ’ . |
| 6 | Two Afghans , among several arrested trying to cross the border , ‘ admitted that they belonged to an intelligence group entrusted with the organisation of an underground anti-Soviet movement in Tadjikistan , whose purpose was to turn the republic into an Islamic state ’ . |