Example sentences of "turn [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 2 | The entire stock of the nation 's glasses turns over in two years so there is no reason why this measure should result in any implementation costs or why the price of a pint should go up . |
| 3 | In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial . |
| 4 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 5 | Strobe lights are turned on to full effect for ‘ Bring It On Down ’ , which comes complete with a sample of Donna Summer 's old disco smash ‘ I Feel Love ’ , incongruous amidst the white English chaos — albeit a very controlled and theatrical type of chaos . |
| 6 | Cor who gets turned on with fucking crocodile bollocks ? |
| 7 | ‘ Like I said , I enjoyed being with her , but you would have to be some kind of retard to get turned on in those scenes by thinking I am kissing a sex symbol … |
| 8 | But if you do n't mind this cinema verité approach to pornography and you get turned on by freaky-looking people , then the amateur video could introduce you to some interesting new bedtime pals . |
| 9 | It was turned on by remote control . |
| 10 | The image depressed him ; if that was heaven it was best left to the cherubim and seraphim who might be turned on by that sort of thing . |
| 11 | Members sponsored by unions who are turned on by that prospect ? |
| 12 | Gina was not turned on by these sounds . |
| 13 | So different people want different things and get turned on by different things . |
| 14 | When he had broached the subject — tentatively — he had been turned down with surprising sharpness . |
| 15 | Hirst may well be fired up for the job against Manchester United , whose £3.5 million bid by fax was turned down amid some acrimony last month by Wednesday manager Trevor Francis . |
| 16 | Mr Clarke said his office tried ‘ several times ’ to arrange a meeting , four months before the bombshell announcement that 31 pits were to close with the loss of 30,000 jobs , but was turned down on each occasion . |
| 17 | Sometimes it is , sometimes it is n't , but what black people have to do is to become so well qualified that they can not be turned down on this basis — or at least if they are they can refer it to the Race Relations Board . |
| 18 | Bright was turned down on both counts by Field , whose principal consideration was the weather . |
| 19 | The Metropolitan Police have said that Courtney offered his services — but he was turned down for any work . |
| 20 | After all , at this end of the market where incomes are low and where applicants for credit may well have been turned down by other types of lender , lenders may feel that they have to discriminate particularly carefully to be sure of recovering their money . |
| 21 | He appeals against the sentence on April 9 , but it is the day of the election and no one notices that his plea is turned down by three Court of Appeal judges . |
| 22 | AN application for outline permission to erect a detached house at 90 London Road , Holybourne has been turned down by local planners . |
| 23 | They must be turned in within 30 days after taking delivery of a Sun IPX or SparcStation 2 . |
| 24 | The colonial administration 's paper , Mambo Leo , had , like its stablemates , been turned over to private hands . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At the end , the play is turned over to genuine amateurs , as the patrons are coerced into waving their arms , donning toadstool hats , and making dog noises . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Millbottom has been in and out of the cloth trade and was subsequently turned over to other uses . |
| 29 | It started life in the cloth trade but , as with many other Woodchester mills , was eventually turned over to other uses . |
| 30 | The Lightpill complex then systematically turned over to other uses . |