Example sentences of "turn around " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has said that the £15m on offer was either too little or too much — too little to pacify the bankers if Eagle was in trouble but if the group could be turned around a recapitalisation would not be needed . |
| 2 | The idea is simple : communities with high unemployment and economic depression can be turned around if the companies that operate in those communities can be persuaded to become involved in them , invest in them , and train and recruit people from within them . |
| 3 | In the face of the group 's £4billion debts , he said : ‘ We believe this company can be turned around again and prosper . ’ |
| 4 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |
| 5 | As for MTM ( which took its name from US actress Mary Tyler Moore , its founder , and is best known in Britain for Hill Street Blues and Lou Grant ) Mr Gatward said it would take between 18 months to two years before the company was turned around . |
| 6 | The common dolphin has a total of 180 teeth , which it uses to hold the captured meal fast while it is turned around to be swallowed head first . |
| 7 | Tammuz had turned around from his workstation . |
| 8 | That is , inner cities are perceived as ‘ deviant communities ’ , areas which need to be turned around and brought back into the mainstream , a mainstream that requires little or no restructuring or reform . |
| 9 | The complaint of maladministration was not upheld , the Commissioner finding that the complainant 's grievance essentially turned around the meaning of the phrase ‘ best practicable means ’ the complainant being of the opinion that any emission of obnoxious odours provided grounds for legal proceedings , whereas the Health and Safety Executive , while accepting there was an occasional emission which produced some slight smell , did not consider that this constituted an offence . |
| 10 | I was turned around and frog-marched to the last flight of stairs leading to the foyer , then thrown down the last six steps . |
| 11 | Thanks to them , this time next year , American pop might have turned around altogether . |
| 12 | Each was turned around and the wrists cuffed behind their backs . |
| 13 | Swindon swept back within seconds for Maskell to score , but a minute later he had his spot-kick turned around the post by Steve Sutton . |
| 14 | SHE 'S LOVELY , SHE 'S TURNED AROUND MY LIFE |
| 15 | Following heavy rationalisation , it generated £200m turnover last year , and has turned around from being loss-making to earning ‘ profits that are less than the industry average ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Just after we closed for press on Friday , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 18 | People who know say the physics involved will allow Pentium to be turned around , but that Intel may have to back off from a 66MHz specification to 50MHz if it is to meet its revised March 1993 delivery date . |
| 19 | Just after we closed for press last week , news came through that NCR Corp 's chairman and chief executive Gilbert Williamson would retire from the company in May and would be succeeded by Jerre Stead , currently president of AT&T Co 's Global Business Communications Systems , which he is credited with having turned around ; Stead , 50 , will have the title group executive-NCR , and will be succeeded by Patricia Russo , currently vice president-national sales and service for the Global Business Unit ; although the switch is being presented as amicable , there are mutters that AT&T is concerned that NCR has not had a higher profile since acquisition . |
| 20 | ‘ We liked the idea of taking the field with the worst reputation for stimulating unnecessary materialism and see if it could be turned around ’ , he says . |
| 21 | She 'd circled the block until she 'd found the side alley where the stage door was located , and then after hiding her bag in a dark spot behind a big wheeled trash hopper she 'd turned around and headed back to the coffee shop . |
| 22 | She felt the merest of touches on her hair and then she was being slowly turned around . |
| 23 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 24 | The odds seem stacked against XH558 , but odds can be turned around . |
| 25 | The Gloucester coach Keith Richardson says that the week may have turned around the team 's season … the win over a strong bridgend side was very rewarding and it reflects the old Gloucester dog attitude … when they think there 's competition a match to be won they respond and come through … there 's a big league game against Northampton coming up on saturday and Gloucester need all the inspiration they can get to win |
| 26 | ‘ Weekends are special to us because my working week can be turned around totally . |
| 27 | The boys leapt out of the motorbike 's path but the rider simply turned around and charged on . |
| 28 | UK profits soared 60 per cent to £60 million as the loss-making shirt and fabrics businesses were turned around . |
| 29 | Willie Crosbie : ‘ turned around school 's reputation ’ |
| 30 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |