Example sentences of "to turn [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , this need to turn contemporary life into drama had been the defining characteristic of his work since " Portrait of a Lady " . |
| 2 | Everything has turned to gold and the inevitable consequence has been to turn individual acts of generosity and compassion into transactions with monetary consequences . |
| 3 | There have been many , well publicised , attempts to turn domestic waste into fuel pellets . |
| 4 | The new climate in Xianjiang Province in northwest China is likely to turn large areas of steppe into desert . |
| 5 | So good that it can do it almost without help from history : it manages to turn 20th-century products into cult objects of British tradition . |
| 6 | On the field , the recurring problem was the inability to turn critical periods to advantage : never more obvious than in the 1990–91 Ashes series : this in a decade when failure , far from being excused , was despised , claim Scott and Cook in the most questionable of their conclusions . |
| 7 | So what do you do to turn young girls into console fiends ? |
| 8 | This separating into levels forms the basis for another large venture , the solar pond programme ( see Box B ) , to turn solar energy into electricity . |