Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] turning [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collapse of tin and the rise of cocaine is turning Bolivian society upside down . |
| 2 | Nobody knows why , any more than anyone knows why amphibians are disappearing , dolphins are dying or coral is turning white . |
| 3 | Its mouth is turning red and swelling up . |
| 4 | Our beautiful friendship was turning sour . |
| 5 | It means that Mrs Thatcher 's great reforming legacy is safe and will be built on and it means that Britain 's Euro-sceptic approach to Maastricht will dominate our coming Euro-presidency at a time when the federalist dream is turning sour all over Europe . |
| 6 | And the Council is turning sour . |
| 7 | By the time they got back to the Buccaneer , the sun was turning pink and orange to usher in another early Caribbean night , and Virginia felt weary with the emotional tension of avoiding either body or eye contact with her companion , and keeping the conversation on a relentlessly impersonal level . |
| 8 | The climate was turning warm and humid and beginning to dry out the swamplands . |
| 9 | Up in Sheffield a protest rally against police provocation and brutality was turning ugly . |
| 10 | Trippy hit a couple of bass chords , classic threatening music , and shouted : ‘ The crew be turning ugly , Cap'n . ’ |
| 11 | The day was turning ominous , the rain now cut broad swathes through the grain of the afternoon . |
| 12 | This day was turning strange . |
| 13 | Clouds were creeping up over the edges of the trees and the river 's surface was turning black . |
| 14 | Currie ( 1987 ) has noted that there are some who maintain that policy is turning full circle back into a fully discretionary mode . |
| 15 | ‘ … the sky 's turning green . |
| 16 | It was late afternoon and the sky was turning red outside . |
| 17 | Outside the sky was turning pale . |
| 18 | Her stomach was turning nervous somersaults as she rang the bell but she was determined no one should realise it . |
| 19 | Even The Economist is turning green . |
| 20 | On the driver 's side of the wrecked black car the whiteness was turning red . |
| 21 | Elizabeth 's heart was turning cold . |
| 22 | This double appeal is turning woman-centred methods into the most persuasive and influential aspect of woman-centred psychology . |
| 23 | Her face was turning blue . |
| 24 | Even as Alex watched , the green stuff on her face was turning blue . |
| 25 | His face was turning pale green , the colour of sour apples . |