Example sentences of "turn [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maccoby and Jacklin , authors of the standard review of psychological sex differences , note that even a study like their own , which finds mostly similarities , turns inexorably into a trait psychology ( 1974 : 3ff ) , centred on masculinity and femininity , and the differences between them . |
| 2 | Barbara Lohman of the Points of Light Foundation ( a non-profit organisation set up at the instigation of the White House ) says that today 's volunteers are ‘ not turned on by the martyrdom thing . ’ |
| 3 | This clock can be turned on by the START signal , causing the motor to run at a stepping rate equal to the clock frequency , and turned off by the STOP signal , in which case the motor is halted . |
| 4 | Sarah Murray was recently turned down for a catwalk show because her walk was n't suitable . |
| 5 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 6 | A SECOND appeal against East Hampshire District Council 's refusal to allow permission for a house on land at Old School House , Crabtree Lane , Headley has been turned down by a government inspector . |
| 7 | A similar move for this year was turned down by the Home Office . |
| 8 | A similar move for this year was turned down by the Home Office . |
| 9 | President Chissano had offered an immediate armistice , but this had been turned down by the rebel leader . |
| 10 | Proposals for bilateral agreements , put forward by both these countries , have been turned down by the UK Department of the Environment on the grounds that Britain , along with other European Community countries , is aiming to achieve self-sufficiency in waste disposal . |
| 11 | A prosecution appeal against the overturning of North 's convictions was turned down by the Circuit Court of Appeals on Nov. 27 . |
| 12 | If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one . |
| 13 | And despite selling striker Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham last week for £2.1m , Forest are still busy searching the market for a replacement after being turned down in a £1.5m move for Arsenal 's Alan Smith . |
| 14 | Green himself had been turned away from a polling station in the capital , Georgetown , for lack of identity papers ; this prompted his supporters , drawn from slum districts , to go on the rampage , attacking the Commission 's headquarters and that of the PPP and looting and vandalising scores of Indian shops . |
| 15 | A HOSPITAL patient with a life-threatening condition was twice turned away from an operating table because there were not enough intensive care beds . |
| 16 | The common application programming interface that it and Hewlett-Packard Co worked on with Objectivity Inc , Ontos Inc , Object Design Inc and Versant Object Technology Inc , to allow developers to write programs that could utilise any object database — work that has been turned over to the Object Management Group — is a Spring technology ( UX No 362 ) . |
| 17 | The instructions warn that if the stove burns with a high yellow flame it should be turned off at the fuel valve and allowed to cool . |
| 18 | After washing , twist taps were not turned off with the paper towel ; and where elbow taps were available , they were used properly only four times ; and when disposing of the paper towel in foot-operated pedal bins , nurses used their hands to open and close the bins . |
| 19 | The company says the trainer market 's core consumers are turned off by the Clarks name . |
| 20 | With two brothers , he had turned up with a cash bid for House of Fraser . |
| 21 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 22 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 23 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
| 24 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 25 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 26 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 27 | More recently he has turned up in The Fisher King and At Play in the Fields of the Lord , and he has a small role in Coppola 's forthcoming Dracula . |
| 28 | Further volumes of Henry Oakeley 's Journal also turned up in the County Record Office - for the years 1862–1866 . |
| 29 | He has not turned out for the village team since . |
| 30 | He has not turned out for the village team since . |