Example sentences of "[adv] turning to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a way of dealing with a crisis this seemed repugnant — a bit like a child only turning to his parents when he or she wants something . |
| 2 | As Bloch has commented , ‘ To us accustomed to live with our eyes constantly turning to the clock , how remote from our civilization seems this society in which a court of law could not ascertain the time of day without discussion and inquiry ! ’ |
| 3 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 4 | But basically turning to the Selby situation erm I mean here here we have a district that does n't have any areas of acknowledged national or landscape im importance at all but as as I mentioned previously that 's not to say that there are n't valuable areas of countryside within the district and areas which to use use the words of of P P G advice are valued by the people that live and and work in the district and and also by visitors . |
| 5 | The superintendent gazed at the blank TV screen before suddenly turning to Franks , her eyes drained of laughter . |
| 6 | But there are ways of gradually increasing daily physical activity without necessarily turning to a specific form of sport . |
| 7 | Furthermore , whatever Kennedy 's disappointment over the lukewarm support from London , he was soon turning to Macmillan for advice and help on other questions . |
| 8 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , you , ’ he said , finally turning to the chief inspector , ‘ what do you think you 're doing ? ’ |
| 10 | Right turning to item eleven two Mid Sussex District Local County . |
| 11 | With legs slowly turning to jelly , I skied down hard , icy snow , followed by spring snow , then slush . |
| 12 | She walked down street after street , always turning to the right , and pulled herself up among buses , and near a railway bridge . |
| 13 | This can be achieved by once more turning to the conceptual framework we have borrowed from Harré et al. |
| 14 | Thai saw-mill operators were also turning to loggers in Laos , Cambodia , Indonesia and Malaysia to replace their lost supplies . |
| 15 | RIGHT now , thoughts are inevitably turning to home heating , and the Coal Advisory Service says for the majority of homes in the province , that means solid fuel |
| 16 | More people are now turning to the bottled version as an alternative to tapped |
| 17 | His war wound which had pained him earlier was now turning to agony . |
| 18 | Meanwhile many intelligent deaf people who might have gone into education , but now finding these opportunities non-existent because of the Education Act of 1893 which had implemented the Royal Commission for the Education of the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb 's recommendations , were now turning to missioner positions in deaf societies and institutes for a living . |
| 19 | Okay now turning to the radio . |
| 20 | With the French links well established in East Lothian , eyes are now turning to Rosignano , Musselburgh 's other twin town in north Italy . |
| 21 | Now turning to the , the the good news and that is that the Lincolnshire Flood Defence Committee was set to increase after ninety-four , five which is some twenty per cent below the normal three-four level . |
| 22 | So now turning to the point which er I think you asked us to address . |
| 23 | Today pensioners from Nuffield Press in Cowley and Hazel , in Aylesbury were amoung hundreds lobbying Parliament , with the shortfall affecting up to two hundred people in the region they 're now turning to the government for help . |
| 24 | Alot of local councils and alot of private industry under deregulation are now turning to the buses . |
| 25 | For they were melting as she stood there , and she seemed to be liquid inside too , her limbs strangely turning to water . |
| 26 | Africa 's disenchantment with the two Washington institutions is fast turning to outright hostility . |
| 27 | To overcome such effects brews are increasingly turning to preprepared hop extracts of one form or another . |
| 28 | Companies are increasingly turning to environmental auditing to help them fulfil their responsibilities . |
| 29 | Alongside this opening of the official archives , interest is now increasingly turning to the whereabouts and availability of private papers . |
| 30 | Poisonings of birds of prey are expected to decline , however , as landowners are increasingly turning to a new kind of trap which does not use poison bait . |