Example sentences of "[prep] turning to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's spent much of his life in prison after turning to crime to support his habit . |
| 2 | As Saturday draws near , the communist dream he thought he had helped realise is in danger of turning to ashes in his hands . |
| 3 | So when we are thinking about helping bereaved people , instead of turning to emotional issues straightaway , we should perhaps consider the practical issues that the bereaved person is facing . |
| 4 | Après le Cubisme , published by Le Corbusier and Ozenfant in 1918 , accused the Cubists of turning to mere decoration . |
| 5 | The Lord clearly despises the practice of reaching for the stars instead of turning to him . |
| 6 | ‘ Church people were all too often narrow-minded , censorious , judgemental , intolerant , conventional … so the people for whom the world was too harsh would never think of turning to the Church … |
| 7 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's time Dana took responsibility for her own life , instead of turning to you at every imagined crisis , ’ Myra said . |
| 9 | El País of July 8 noted González " reticence on the question of human rights , which it said resulted from the Spanish government 's hopes of turning to its advantage a downturn in Morocco 's relations with France [ see p. 38354 ] . |
| 10 | A NEW scheme to help youngsters who find themselves under pressure and at risk of turning to crime has been welcomed by the Duke of Westminster . |
| 11 | Many parents also have reservations about turning to outside agencies for financial help . |
| 12 | To follow this argument in more detail , it is worth turning to the product which is most intimately associated with the earliest period of the industrial revolution , that is cotton cloth . |
| 13 | If this is the case , rather than attempt to invent a new conceptual framework , there is much to be said for turning to marriage as the one , already existing legal concept which has the obvious potential for expansion so as to provide the institutional framework for such a union . |
| 14 | If the kite turns either way left or right , then increase the pull on the opposite side , right for turning to the right and left for a left turn . |
| 15 | It is like turning to the end of the story before you begin reading it , to find out if the bad dies got their just deserts , or the good guys won . |
| 16 | In turning to God , and interceding on behalf of the people , as Moses used to do , he discovers the nature of the offence . |
| 17 | And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain . |
| 18 | IN TURNING to Gary Klesch , Heron International 's bondholders have found a man with first-hand knowlege of debt . |
| 19 | In turning to the left criticism of Distant Voices , Still Lives and A Very British Coup , we need to make a distinction between what I shall term the ‘ core ’ and the ‘ periphery ’ journals . |
| 20 | In turning to trusts we are faced with a similar problem , and similarly desperate evidence . |
| 21 | In turning to my second strand of educational research I am encouraged by Reid , Hopkins and Holly ( 1988 ) : |
| 22 | Now , in turning to style as recurrence , pattern , frequency we find ourselves taking the reader 's point of view . |
| 23 | In turning to the manner in which the Report deals specifically with the " needs of business " it is immediately clear that the requirements of cultural nationalization are to be allowed completely to overwhelm the servicing of such needs . |
| 24 | In turning to media representations of industrial confrontation , we focus , once again , on the 1984–5 coal dispute . |
| 25 | So in turning to social processes outside employment , we are shifting to a sphere of study which has been well trodden by urban sociology . |
| 26 | Paradoxically , however , our enthusiasm in turning to these processes lies more in examining how questions of identity and moral careers come to be formed rather than in continuing to equate ‘ urban ’ with ‘ consumption ’ or ‘ social reproduction ’ . |
| 27 | We shall first have to look at this ‘ historical ’ side of things before turning to the positive ‘ rhetorical ’ side of their work . |
| 28 | The opening paragraph of The Autocar 's November 1965 test of a privately owned car ( to much the same spec as our example ) read : ‘ Few readers indeed will get this far before turning to the data page which follows , for the name of AC Cobra is synonymous with performance . |
| 29 | Born in Brno , Czechoslovakia , in 1929 , Kundera worked as a labourer and a jazz musician before turning to writing . |
| 30 | It is these two rituals which will be the main focus of this essay , but before turning to their specific analysis a few more words need to be said about the general blood context and the male-female hierarchy at work within it . |