Example sentences of "to turn [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TCCB might even be able to turn the political situation to its advantage . |
| 2 | A third recent order is for a groundnut sorter , which could play an important role in a project to turn the Egyptian desert into fertile land . |
| 3 | But to turn the technological breakthrough into war advantage , hundreds of thousands of magnetrons were needed , which Britain could never hope to produce unaided . |
| 4 | Furthermore , it is utter nonsense in any event to turn the mere similarity of habitation into a similarity of personality , for that would be to argue the proposition that if two people occupy the same room they thereby become exactly like each other in their minds and in their actions . |
| 5 | The rider does n't just lean the bike into the corner — he knocks the machine on to its side , pushing heavily on the right handlebar to turn the front wheel to the left and drop the machine to the right . |
| 6 | The British ‘ aristocracy of labour ’ , a stratum peculiar to that country where the class of independent small producers , shopkeepers , etc. , was relatively insignificant , as was the lower middle class of white-collar workers and minor bureaucrats , helped to turn the Liberal Party into a party with genuine mass appeal . |
| 7 | I 've learned to turn the other cheek in a manner that would make Christian proud . |
| 8 | DC Comics plan to turn the Caped Crusader into a drunken buffoon . |
| 9 | For a start , a company board might decide , in recession , to turn the profit-sharing scheme into a loss-sharing scheme and reduce salaries . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister 's undertaking to move swiftly to the market economy was given tangible form on July 20 , 1990 , in the presentation to parliament of bills to create the legal framework for such an economy and to turn the great majority of state-owned businesses into autonomous enterprises and companies with share capital . |
| 11 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 12 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 13 | He threatened to quit the hit series when writers tried to turn the gentle fireman-turned-'tec into a trendy , big-time operator involved with glamour girls and car chases : ‘ It just was n't on , ’ said Michael , back on Tuesday ( ITV , 9pm ) for a seventh Boon series , in a 13-week run . |
| 14 | Labour sought to turn the general election into a referendum on the NHS , asking voters for a mandate to reverse the changes . |
| 15 | But their bid was rejected after 7,000 people signed a petition objecting to the scheme to turn the stately home into an hotel and leisure complex . |
| 16 | About 7,000 people signed a petition objecting to the scheme to turn the stately home into an hotel and leisure complex . |
| 17 | Heads as they appoint new staff have the chance to turn the long-term realization of a school 's plan into a shared reality , but the same commitment can also be won from those teachers who are at a school when a new head arrives . |
| 18 | One faction , called the Democratic Platform , wants to turn the Communist party into a social democratic one . |
| 19 | The challenge : to turn the Soviet Union into a market economy . |
| 20 | Because it is possible to turn the regressed patient into an observer rather than into someone undergoing the experience she was able to tell me everything that had happened in precise detail . |
| 21 | In this latter attempt to turn the coercive action of metaphor back on itself lies the seed of the type of metaphor developed in Such . |
| 22 | If only she could have waved a magic wand to turn the fat girl into a raving beauty . |
| 23 | If he ever decided to turn the full wattage of his charm on a woman , she thought , distractedly folding some of her clothes into neat piles , he 'd be quite irresistible . |
| 24 | For years it seemed they were common enough to turn the competitive paradigm into something of little practical use . |
| 25 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 26 | Richmond councillors are worried about plans to turn the old cinema on the Ryders Wynd/Queens Road junction into a DIY shop . |
| 27 | Lou Reed 's critical rehabilitation is threatening to turn the old sourpuss into rock ‘ n ’ roll 's first Professor of Literature . |
| 28 | He 's come up with an organic binder which makes it possible to turn the left-over dust into briquettes which burn for two and half hours . |
| 29 | In order to turn the National Gallery into a viable concern , he will need to find private sponsorship and patronage , but although a Friends society has been launched , attracting sponsorship will prove extremely difficult until a new tax law designed to encourage personal and corporate donations to culture and sport is introduced . |
| 30 | After having to make three attempts to turn the huge pantechnicon into our lane , they finally succeeded . |