Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] turn their " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has to be explained is why in the long-term stagnant economies the innovators do not turn their hands to productive capital accumulation ( or , for that matter , to the mobilisation of political forces , though this would not be Baran 's argument ) . |
| 2 | They do n't turn their nose up at a job for a lesser mag if their last assignment was for Elle or something . ’ |
| 3 | Although the writers discussed here have all turned their back on mimetic realism , they have not abandoned the issue of how their fiction relates to the external world . |
| 4 | The couple have not turned their back on their Catholic faith . |
| 5 | The political parties have also turned their attentions to citizenship and the community . |
| 6 | Workers have also turned their attention to obtaining all-human monoclonal antibodies . |
| 7 | Councillors have also turned their attention to the Skerne and are busy working on a riverside revival project . |
| 8 | Buoyed by their success , workstation makers have now turned their attentions to the $10 billion personal-computer market . |
| 9 | The issue here is quite simple , Labour have consistently turned their back on any closures , that 's fair enough , so you would n't expect them then to produce figures which demonstrate that they 're right . |
| 10 | Far from looking at ways of working deep in the dermis , scientists have recently turned their attention to the most superficial layers of the skin , where the tiredness and dullness associated with ageing show up first . |