Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When An Teallach passes from sight behind foothills , the road turns down to scenery of a very different character , to the beautiful trees and parklands of Dundonnell and vistas of sylvan charm . |
| 2 | The new construct — the growth hormone gene joined to a promoter that is turned on by traces of metal — was injected with a fine pipette into the nucleus of a fertilized mouse egg . |
| 3 | The request was turned down for fear of creating a traffic hazard as Joseph Pease 's statue later did . |
| 4 | The option of a room at the five-star Grand Hotel was turned down in favour of bed and breakfast in St George 's Terrace . |
| 5 | Just as he could have received promotion over the years , but had always been turned down in favour of someone younger . |
| 6 | On his surrender Noriega was transported by helicopter to the nearby Howard Air Force Base in Panama , and there he was turned over to representatives of the US Drug Enforcement Agency . |
| 7 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 8 | She must 'ave turned off at t'top of your other path . |
| 9 | The plane touched down , bounced up again , slewed sideways and skidded along the runway , breaking up as it did so ; the port wing broke off and the rest of the plane turned over on top of it . |
| 10 | For the first six months of its financial year , Tadpole turned round from losses of £1.4m last time to pre-tax profits of £26,800 this . |
| 11 | For the first six months of its financial year , Tadpole turned round from losses of £1.4m last time to pre-tax profits of £26,800 this . |
| 12 | Turn on to sheet of greaseproof paper sprinkled with icing sugar . |
| 13 | But even its unmediated , image-led format can only command an audience of around 3 million — a few million less than normally turn on to Songs Of Praise . |
| 14 | In South Yorkshire , the snail Cepaea hortensis and the pill woodlouse ( Armadillidium vulgare ) , both normally centred on limestone terrain , are beginning to turn up on fragments of the urban common that are rich in mortar and therefore calcareous . |
| 15 | At gate at top ( turn round for view of Castle Howard ) turn left on road past Coneysthorpe hamlet ( d ) and back to start . |