Example sentences of "turning [art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning the request into a race invokes the child 's sense of competition . |
| 2 | On another side it was an assault upon the corruption of the highest truths ; against turning love of the Bible into bibliolatry , or creeds into scholastic definitions , or the sacrament into magic , or Popes and priests and bishops into a bureaucracy or a rigidity where structure becomes the end instead of the means ; or turning the Church into a social club . |
| 3 | They claim a new chicane is turning the road into a racetrack , and they now want it replaced with traffic humps . |
| 4 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 5 | The feeling in the backswing has been one of turning the back to the target , and hopefully with a feeling that the right hand is going to generate power through impact . |
| 6 | With more days sailing on the sea we learned to ‘ run ’ — sail downwind — and to gyb , that is , to change direction by turning the back of the boat into the wind . |
| 7 | This need not follow the pattern laid down by Zacchaeus but can be something as simple as turning the back on the past and seeking reconciliation with God and other people . |
| 8 | 2 Twisting her palm inwards and then in an upward direction , the defender succeeds in turning the grab into a counter-attack . |
| 9 | The research findings proved vital in turning the tide of the war , particularly in detecting U-boats . |
| 10 | A weak sun was about to rise , turning the darkness to a dusty grey : their horses plodded along the frozen track , both riders taking special care against the potholes , some as deep as a man , which could bring down and even kill both the unwary rider and his horse . |
| 11 | In this way , the polyps synchronise the release of their sexual cells so precisely that the event occurs at the same hour on a particular night each year , turning the sea into a multi-coloured reproductive soup . |
| 12 | This exiled army played an important part in the allied fight against the Germans but eventually it was Stalin 's Red Army who liberated their homeland , turning the country into an eastward-looking nation . |
| 13 | A single light burned unshaded above the communion table , turning the scene into a badly lit play . |
| 14 | When he sat down on his romantic bank by his crystal brook , the thought of turning the journey into a book was born : ‘ Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration . ’ |
| 15 | The dichotomy between these elements was resolved by turning the boardroom into a form of club to which only those with the right social background would be admitted . |
| 16 | Above , clouds ragged as crows ' wings beat across the sky , turning the moon into a pale flower drifting beneath the sea . |
| 17 | The stairs then retract , turning the stairway into a sheer slope and dumping the adventurers down to the bottom . |
| 18 | And as in the fable , it 's slow and steady who wins , by turning the race into a life-long commitment to good eating and good health . |
| 19 | In 1971 , the Agricultural Research Council ( ARC ) and the agriculture ministry launched a research programme to find a way of turning the problem into a resource . |
| 20 | Charles 's low plea was interrupted by Guy , who was slowly turning the stem of the cut-glass wine goblet in front of him , watching the reflection of candlelight in the dark burgundy . |
| 21 | Torrential rain was quickly turning the building-site into a quagmire . |
| 22 | But again Bramall Lane roared United back into the game , Cork running onto Paul Beesley 's pass down the left and turning the ball into the middle for Ward to hook in his second equaliser . |
| 23 | They trooped off into the night , short of food and water , but incredibly a freak rainstorm burst , turning the desert into a lake . |
| 24 | ‘ Con Gallagher is the father , ’ she went on blandly , brutally , turning the knife in the wound , watching the pain intensify . |
| 25 | And he added , turning the knife in the wound , ‘ Christ almighty ! |
| 26 | In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training . |
| 27 | It has a vertical shaft and a horizontal wheel with inclined wooden blades , and though this system generates little power , it is sufficient to drive a pair of millstones , turning the upper of the two stones as in conventional mills . |
| 28 | By turning the show into a theatrical display , Laura felt comfortable ; it was so far removed from reality that it could be viewed as a staged drama with no intention of portraying a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ customer in real life . |
| 29 | Turning the comparison round the other way , another recent study examined the performance of schizophrenics on two standard ‘ creativity ’ tests . |
| 30 | The horseshoe shaped canal network is criss-crossed by over 1,000 pretty bridges turning the city into a kingdom of mini islands . |