Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All contain the same genes , although different genes will be turned on in the different specialist cells . |
| 2 | Small clients handled roughly from what sounded like a hectic dealing room got turned on by the apparent professionalism of it all , and often allowed themselves to be persuaded into buying almost worthless over the counter ( OTC ) shares . |
| 3 | Subsequently , the collars were fully turned down to the conventional collar of today , while the cravats were transformed into bow-ties . |
| 4 | The offer was turned down by the then philistine government ( history repeats itself ? ) and the collection returned to Tabley House . |
| 5 | The £1,800 earmarked for extensions and alterations to the Civic Centre had not in fact been turned down by the Liberal administration but had merely been cynically deferred until after the byelection ! |
| 6 | A proposal by the unit to investigate engineering research has recently been turned down by the Social Science Research Council . |
| 7 | Thirdly , as regards the Science Policy Research Unit 's proposal to assess engineering research , no member of the unit has claimed that the project was turned down by the Social Science Research Council because of ‘ lobbying by outsiders ’ . |
| 8 | Similar proposals from the company for Hillington were turned down by the Scottish Secretary last March , after a public inquiry , on the grounds that the site is zoned for strategic industrial use . |
| 9 | Nottinghamshire originally sought a prohibited steps order to keep the perpetrator away from the family home , but was turned down by the High Court which said it had no option other than to make a residence order . |
| 10 | Work already done on ANDF has been turned over to the European Commission 's Open Microprocessor Initiative — a £40m effort to develop next-generation microprocessor and software technology ( UX Nos 381 , 315 ) . |
| 11 | The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu . |
| 12 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |
| 13 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A FURIOUS housewife took three workmen hostage after being told her heating must be turned off until the New Year . |
| 16 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
| 17 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 18 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 19 | And she was always turned out with the meticulous make-up and clothes of a Barbie doll , an arch exponent of power dressing with padded shoulders to her grey suit and a tight pencil skirt that drew attention to her long , shapely legs . |
| 20 | The outer room was already full of readers but people were being turned out of the inner room to make way for the meeting . |
| 21 | ‘ I have not eaten and I am in rags and all I ask is a share of your fire before I am turned out into the cold night again … |
| 22 | Macedonian vehicles were being turned back at the Greek border and hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Salonika ( Greek Macedonia ) protested on Feb. 14 at the republic 's use of the name Macedonia . |
| 23 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 24 | Neff 's approach was to produce corporate performance charts of his firm 's most successful clients , indicating that their fortunes had been turned around by the strategic recruitment of executives headhunted for them by Spencer Stuart . |
| 25 | The engine was started up , revving violently as the car was turned round on the narrow road . |
| 26 | As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen . |
| 27 | A-cups are Janet-Reger-ites , turned on by the decadent thrill of spending enormous sums on scraps of silk only their lovers will ever see . |
| 28 | Carefully she turned in through the wide hospital gates . |
| 29 | instead of turning up towards the Royal Standard you turn the other way , that comes down past . |
| 30 | ‘ Jansher was warned by the players ’ chairman , Phil Whitlock , for not turning up to the official function at the Singapore Open last month . |