Example sentences of "[been] turned [adv prt] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | A proposal by the unit to investigate engineering research has recently been turned down by the Social Science Research Council . |
| 4 | A major mining project has been turned down by the Australian Labour government in favour of preserving species unique to the area and defending the land rights of Aborigines . |
| 5 | He said Mr McGuigan had applied for a weapon and been turned down by the Royal Ulster Constabulary . |