Example sentences of "turn [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 2 | The Christian achievement turns less on individual geniuses than in any other period of remotely comparable length in the history of this ever fermenting religion . |
| 3 | Another common instrumental justification of consent turns not on the benefits of consenting but on the benefit of being able to consent . |
| 4 | In Lakatos 's reply to Kuhn , all turns finally on a distinction between progressive and degenerating research programmes . |
| 5 | It follows that is not an objective number generated by considerations of overall balance in the labour market : its value turns critically on the political preferences of governments which are supposed to be in a position to define for themselves what unemployment rate will correspond to full employment and to be capable of action to achieve their newly defined objective . |
| 6 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ she says firmly and turns over on her side . |
| 7 | A derelict ship turns over on her keel and lies gracefully at rest , but there is only one way up for a Thames barge if she is to maintain her dignity . |
| 8 | Bright was turned down on both counts by Field , whose principal consideration was the weather . |
| 9 | ‘ To be honest , no really well-founded scheme has ever been turned down on a financial basis . |
| 10 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 11 | Sometimes it is , sometimes it is n't , but what black people have to do is to become so well qualified that they can not be turned down on this basis — or at least if they are they can refer it to the Race Relations Board . |
| 12 | An amendment that the palace be run jointly with the Graduate Union was turned down on the grounds that ‘ the Graduates are too old and it 's bad for their health . ’ |
| 13 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 14 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 15 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 16 | An action begun in Glasgow for possession of the books , papers and effects was turned down on the grounds that the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was not registered in Scotland and that the complaint had therefore been raised " without title or authority " , though these effects were , claimed Shinwell , later handed over " for the sake of peace and quiet " . |
| 17 | ‘ Despite this , planning applications for change of use to offices have been turned down on this ‘ residential ’ side of the road . ’ |
| 18 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 19 | H M I P which your officers show er or hold up to advise you technically , never get turned down on authorisations submitted to them . |
| 20 | Requests to establish a clearway to prevent cars parking in the stop zone have been turned down on the grounds the restriction would be difficult to impose . |
| 21 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down on each occasion . |
| 22 | well either two or four times er turned down on a long handle for pouring things er out of the , I mean like , when I used |
| 23 | The sites were actually turned down on highways , not erm , you know , any other reason . |
| 24 | Each disciplinary sub-culture is , then , a critical enterprise ; but with the critique turned in on itself . |
| 25 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 26 | After a print run of , say 100 A4 sheets , the printed sheets are then turned over on the long axis , and the same print is made on the reverse . |
| 27 | Okay , fair enough , it was turned over on appeal eventually erm but erm it was a bit of a miscarriage of justice being kept in prison for that period of time until it was overturned pleaded guilty to another murder but that 's by the by . |
| 28 | Then the head was turned aside on the pillow , staring across the room . |
| 29 | He disclosed that electricity supplies to the compound had been turned off on Friday . |
| 30 | Some , like Archibald earl of Argyll and Bothwell , initially stayed away ; but Bothwell at least turned up on 15 March , to promise the support of himself and his kin and friends to Arran , for which his estates in Liddesdale were restored . |