Example sentences of "[noun] was turn [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stock editor system reached a point in some authorities where work on the stock was turned over almost entirely to the ‘ specialist ’ officer , and librarians at service points were denied any real voice in stock provision . |
| 2 | The aircraft was turned over to other crews and her role in the daylight bombing offensive against Nazi Germany continued until the end of hostilities . |
| 3 | Although 45 tonnes of food supplies sent by the United Nations Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) had arrived from Nairobi by air on Feb. 29 , a ship carrying supplies from the UN World Food Programme was turned back on March 3 and 5 from the docks at Mogadishu due to shelling . |
| 4 | The car was turned round . |
| 5 | The engine was started up , revving violently as the car was turned round on the narrow road . |
| 6 | Then the beater was turned off , unmercifully . |
| 7 | I shuffled into the room got out of the doorway and the light was turned on , I ca n't remember with whether I turned it on or whether P C turned it on . |
| 8 | Her mouth was turned down and her little eyes were beady with worry . |
| 9 | The flame was turned down very low . |
| 10 | On returning to his studio the drawing was turned over and he would go over the marks of the original drawing visible through the paper . |
| 11 | The mug is advertised in The Guardian , although the ad was turned down by Time Out listings magazine . |
| 12 | Their plan was turned down because it was not classed as infill development and the site lay outside the built-up area of the village . |
| 13 | A similar plan was turned down by Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , a year ago after a public inquiry , on the grounds the land was zoned for strategic industrial use . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | A CANCER victim who made a dying wish for a slice of toast was turned down by hospital staff … because it was not on their menu . |
| 16 | The case for asylum was turned down , as the right hon. Gentleman knows , and there were three applications for leave to move for judicial review . |
| 17 | Thereafter , the mill was turned over to grinding corn and animal feedstuffs , the latter accounting for much of the business in the later part of its working life . |
| 18 | Later , the mill was turned over to the turning and manufacture of wooden items . |
| 19 | There are indications that the mill was turned over for a time for saw milling , and possibly even cider production . |
| 20 | The 560 differs also from the later machines , in that when the machine is turned on , the same configuration of lights will come on as were on BEFORE the machine was turned off , including any of the pattern variation switches numbers 3 to 6 that were on . |
| 21 | Once the left engine was turning over at 45 per cent , he switched on the right engine , using the live engine 's generator to save the battery . |
| 22 | Stevie Gallagher 's shot was brilliantly saved by Andy Blackwood as Dunmurry came back in the second half but the visitors went two ahead through a penalty by Andy McMenamin and the cross from the right was turned in by Gareth Healey for the third with eight minutes left . |
| 23 | Celia 's immediate reaction was to turn down the offer . |
| 24 | Stef was turning out to be very trying ; she seemed unable to accept that one love can finish just like that — poof ! — and a new one begin . |
| 25 | The young man looked startled that what he 'd thought was just a speck in his eye was turning out to be something much more serious . |
| 26 | If his estimate was wrong , batting was turned over to the rivals . |
| 27 | As an example of the latter we can recall one case in which the famous ‘ scientific ’ investigator of the paranormal , JB Rhine ( 1895–1980 ) , asked an experimental subject to try , clairvoyantly , to perceive the images on a set of cards that Rhine was turning up . |
| 28 | Dorrainge was turning out to be very meddlesome . |
| 29 | Foucault notes that , at the same time as the Annales school and others were constructing a history according to the long durée , in the history of science , philosophy , and literature , attention was turning in exactly the opposite direction , that is away from vast unities towards phenomena of rupture , discontinuity , displacement and transformation , towards different temporalities as well as architectonic unities . |
| 30 | That site was turned down four years ago on environmental grounds . |