Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNIONIST MPs rounded on Ulster Secretary Peter Brooke yesterday after he turned down calls for selective internment in the wake of the IRA bomb outrage at Musgrave Park Hospital . |
| 2 | Councillors voted to turn down plans for any cuts but still face the prospect of having to make reductions if the government chargecaps the council . |
| 3 | The House of Lords ' select committee on science and technology , which delivered a hard-hitting report on industrial R&D last month , was unable to turn up figures for actual ( as opposed to forecast ) government spending . |
| 4 | Turn around time for single-sided boards is around three weeks from sample approval ; is five weeks for more complex double-sided polymer silver through hole boards ; and four weeks for plated through hole and multilayer boards comprising between four to eight layers . |
| 5 | ‘ I would turn down ads for foreign foods if I was offered them , ’ added the Scottish-born actor , who owns a Jaguar and a Rolls Royce . |