Example sentences of "turned [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something wrong with the ballcock , and if both taps were turned on to capacity at the same time there was an overflow outside . |
| 2 | Turned on to tap ! |
| 3 | The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers . |
| 4 | He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB . |
| 5 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 6 | In TV , the cost is based on TV Ratings ( TVRs ) , which are the percentage of households in which the TV is turned on to ITV at the time the ad is run ; in press , the cost is per thousand readers ( or , occasionally , circulation ) of the given publication ; in cinema , it is based on audience sizes ; in posters , on people passing the poster and , therefore , able to see it . |
| 7 | Fonda was able to say that he had first tried LSD a couple of years earlier , and had also been a spasmodic user of marijuana — in between more prolific bouts of drinking vodka or scotch — since 1962 when he was turned on by Jim Mitchum at the Carlton Towers Hotel , in London . |
| 8 | By ten p.m. certain members of the company were sniffing coke or had been turned on by acid or speed or grass . |
| 9 | Men in the Midlands are particularly turned on by partners who take the initiative and are active during sex , a woman 's dress sense and a good figure . |
| 10 | The new construct — the growth hormone gene joined to a promoter that is turned on by traces of metal — was injected with a fine pipette into the nucleus of a fertilized mouse egg . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The sites were actually turned down on highways , not erm , you know , any other reason . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 15 | As unemployment began to escalate it may also have been true that those who were the first to be made redundant or were turned down for work were those who were least efficient . |
| 16 | With an annual rate of 5,000 unsolicited manuscripts , 90 per cent of which are turned down for publication , the editors are in a good position to choose exactly what is required for ‘ the rose of romance ’ brand-name . |
| 17 | Women , it is widely believed , are turned down for jobs by men who fear that , without warning , they will take time off to have children . |
| 18 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 19 | The request was turned down for fear of creating a traffic hazard as Joseph Pease 's statue later did . |
| 20 | Derby have had an ambitious bid turned down for Bryan Robson , Manchester United 's former England skipper . |
| 21 | Although the chosen noise should initially be loud enough to gain the baby 's attention , it should be turned down to background level after 30 seconds . |
| 22 | The State Department had already decided that if the Jews were turned down by Cuba , they would not be granted entry into the United States . |
| 23 | The show 's organisers had approached more well-known institutions and had been turned down by Los Angeles MOCA , the Art Institute of Chicago , the Monterrey Museum in Mexico ( which had used a Basquiat work as the cover for its inaugural catalogue ) , and by the Pompidou Centre in Paris . |
| 24 | She knew that his Gothic romance and glossary were being turned down by publisher after publisher and he grew despondent as he rewrote and rewrote again . |
| 25 | Only one of Barney 's suggestions was firmly turned down by Nigel . |
| 26 | After being turned down by university , I moved to London and joined the Territorial Army , attending evening training sessions in preparation for the physical selection tests . |
| 27 | A last minute attempt by the London employers to open talks this morning was turned down by union leaders . |
| 28 | The chamber opposed plans for a market of up to 42 stalls in the town 's Ivy Street car park , a scheme which was turned down by Colwyn Borough Council 's planning committee last week . |
| 29 | On July 13 the Home Affairs Minister , S. B. Chavan , who had visited Ayodhya the previous day , told the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) that the central government 's offer to provide additional security to ensure that the disputed land was not encroached upon had been turned down by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh . |
| 30 | ‘ The developer is seeking the release for housing of a one field width strip parallel to the Glebe Road which had previously been turned down by planners . |