Example sentences of "turned by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , while the state attempted to monopolize such discussion as took place — for example when the ‘ neutral ’ forum for discussion at the VEC seminar was turned by the authorities into a reassurance session — this was resisted locally by successful intervention and contestation at the VEC seminar both by an outside speaker and by DUC activists , and by forcing the issue back on the table for discussion at the local authority level . |
| 2 | The fulling mill had a large wheel , turned by the water power , which activated wooden hammers , rising and falling on the cloth in soapy water . |
| 3 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |
| 4 | The mill was originally powered by an overshot water wheel , turned by the waters of the Blackpool Brook ( as was Lower Mill ) ; it stopped working around 1898–99 . |
| 5 | Of particular importance was the eucharist , which involved the miracle of transubstantiation ; since the twelfth century , the Catholic church had argued that , although the ‘ accidents ’ ( or external appearance ) of the bread and wine remained unchanged during the mass , the substance of both was turned by the priest at the moment of consecration into the body and blood of Christ . |
| 6 | The surpluses increasingly generated by eighteenth century agriculture were turned by the cash economy into increased consumption of non-agricultural produce , providing savings and capital for non-agricultural demand and investment , as Malthus observed ( 1836 ) . |
| 7 | But did n't all railway stations look the same , turned by the war into dismal places ? |