Example sentences of "has 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 | The middle class revolt has turned to a whimper . |
| 3 | TROUBLED Graeme Hick has turned to a shrink to help break his Test hoodoo in India this winter . |
| 4 | They are in charge of world-famous clubs , but the job has turned into a nightmare for the pair of them . |
| 5 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 6 | But the whole music business has turned into a service industry , and it 's ‘ give the people what they want ’ . |
| 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 | The Body & Face Place franchise operation , for instance , has turned into a crematorium for the business ambitions of many franchisees . |
| 9 | Germany , once the greatest supporter of a united Europe , has turned into a nation of bewildered sceptics intent on forcing Bonn to claw back some lost sovereignty . |
| 10 | In the latest number , The Body ( Penguin , £6.99 ) , the John Buchan among editors has turned into a David Cronenberg . |
| 11 | Another little colony of the Blessed Ones which has turned into a hell-hole is to be found at Summerhill in Suffolk , where 70 years ago , the educational idealist A. S. Neill founded his progressive academy , known as the do-as-you-like school . |
| 12 | The battle for Travnik has turned into a rout for the Croats who at the start of the Bosnian war were allied with the Muslims against the Serbs . |
| 13 | But in the first two years of the 1990s the slump in housebuilding and property plunged the group into a hole which has turned into a chasm , as yesterday 's record £69m losses reveal . |
| 14 | Clint , it seems , has turned into a mooncalf . |
| 15 | Since I married again , I have had more children , but my second wife has turned into a shadow . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You think this has turned into a game , or what ? |
| 17 | Bouncing around on the end of an elastic rope may not be everyone 's idea of fun , but for the 24-year-old from Staindrop , County Durham , it 's a fascination that has turned into a living . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Accountancy software supplier Systems Union Ltd , has turned in a record result for its 1992 fiscal year , with pre-tax profits up 280% to £1.5m , on turnover that increased 47.6% to £12.1m : the privately-owned London-based company has operations in Europe , the US and the Asia-Pacific region , and opened a new office in Hong Kong in November , with the aim of addressing the expanding South East Asian market and supporting the existing network of local distributors and agents ; it now boasts more than 100 agents , value-added resellers and distributors worldwide ; chairman John Pemberton aims to expand this network further during 1993 ; the group also launched version 4.0 of its SunSystems product line at the end of last year ; SunSystems comprises two main elements — SunAccount , a fully-integrated ledger accounting package , and SunBusiness , or sales purchase order entry , invoicing and inventory and control software . |