Example sentences of "to turn [art] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preparations are also well under way to turn the sponsorship of a forthcoming Sunderland AFC football match into a community event , with free tickets for many local children . |
| 2 | Murrells ' great dream , to which he dedicated himself entirely , was to turn the Masai into a productive peasantry . |
| 3 | Maybe they would be so kind as to turn the lights around a touch and have them facing us here in Naylorsfield . |
| 4 | Those thoughts in themselves are sufficient to turn the occasion from a loving one into some sort of physical test — and of course the same thing happens again ; the man feels so tense and anxious that he is simply not able to perform sexually . |
| 5 | Organisers are hoping to raise millions of pounds to turn the centre into a living museum . |
| 6 | Nor was he planning to turn the BBC into a ‘ publisher ’ rather than a maker of programmes . |
| 7 | The defence minister , General Hector Gramajo , is trying to turn the army into a professional force . |
| 8 | It is applied to turn the wood into an alkaline condition , so that when the ‘ B ’ or No. 2 solution is applied , it will liberate oxygen , thus bleaching the wood . |
| 9 | ‘ The Conservatives want to turn the NHS into an industry , they say that will bring a better service to the consumer , but health should n't be an industry . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes the edges were doubled , to turn the emblem into a quadruple-axe , either for artistic emphasis or to symbolize some kind of union or symbiosis . |
| 11 | So heavy and cumbersome is the hardtop , which fails to turn the Stag into a refined fixed-head coupe because of atrocious wind whoosh , that many have succumbed to rust while lying neglected in the garden , incubating snails . |
| 12 | And in the struggle to turn the company into a lean commercial outfit , some lines have been discontinued altogether . |
| 13 | In the two years since it was formed it has attracted $6m in venture capital and another $4m from big-name strategic partners , on the promise that the application development environment it 's designing would be a significant enough advance to turn the company into a nine-digit revenue producer . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , he followed this up with some unkind comments about — ‘ A lot of bleeding convicts ! ’ — which was heard by enough of the men at the front to turn the yard into a snarling cockpit again . |
| 15 | It will be necessary either to take court action in England to turn the decision into a judgment which may then be enforced abroad through a treaty , or to take court action in the country where enforcement is desired . |
| 16 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 17 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 18 | But there is a certain piquancy in Kingfisher now trying to turn the tables on a company from whose clutches its escaped by a whisker only three years ago . |
| 19 | This remark ignores IBM 's own attempts to turn the highway into a toll-paying bridge by the introduction in 1987 of the now mostly-ignored Micro Channel Architecture . |
| 20 | But the new Headmaster did not try to turn the School into a Technical School with a full science curriculum . |
| 21 | In Rhode Island , a decade later , he accepted a commission from the local elites to turn the state into a showpiece of private-public partnership and high-technology-driven growth . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Most of us agree that it would be handy to turn the loft into a bedroom , or have a conservatory tacked on to an outside wall , but can you imagine what it must be like living in a church , a factory or a windmill ? |
| 24 | Schubert 's unfinished C major Sonata is in a sense a piano score of an orchestral work , but then of course , as with the ‘ Wanderer ’ Fantasy in the same key , the point is to turn the piano into an orchestra , with the help of longer pedals and a wider dynamic range . |
| 25 | Democratising pension funds , putting workers on the boards of companies , sponsoring the international worker networking described by Gary Herman in last week 's issue ( ‘ Hooked on IT ’ ) , and making foreign-language training obligatory for company executives ( as well as MPs , especially left Labour MPs ) would do more to make the economy socially progressive and productionist than any campaign to turn the pound into a peseta . |
| 26 | The ability of a salesperson to turn the objection into a trial close is dependent upon perfect timing and considerable judgment . |
| 27 | Next year she plans to turn the garage into a games room for table tennis . |
| 28 | The decision to turn the Cup into a huge entertainment event has been made because of the massive fan following which Jack Charlton and his Green Army have built up in their battle to qualify . |
| 29 | Antarctic Treaty nations have failed to approve a recommendation to turn the continent into a " world park " , but they agreed to discuss draft proposals for an " environmental protocol " at a further meeting in April this year . |
| 30 | Fitzgerald then served out for the set to turn the match into a real struggle , or so we thought , but Grabb and McEnroe stepped up a gear midway through the fourth set to take control . |