Example sentences of "turn over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , the mill was turned over to the turning and manufacture of wooden items . |
| 2 | By 1863 , he too had gone and Kings Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins , an industry that was to become important for Painswick . |
| 3 | By the 1850s , Freames Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins by Perkins , Critchley and Marmont , who were there for around a decade and who later operated on a much larger scale at Wimberley Mills . |
| 4 | They clearly appreciated what a magnificent building they had acquired and spent £800,000 on restoration and conversion of the Grade II listed structure , which was subsequently turned over to the manufacture of high-technology measuring equipment . |
| 5 | The row , which inflamed doctors , was immortalised by the pictures of ‘ battling Granny Esther Brookstone ’ , the leader of Charing Cross Hospital 's branch of the National Union of Public Employees , demanding that the new hospital 's ‘ penthouse floor ’ of private beds be turned over to the NHS . |
| 6 | It was considered that the larger Devon found in Somerset formed a link to the big , powerful ploughing oxen of Sussex which , even in the mid-nineteenth century , were regarded also as valuable beef makers , worked only for three or four years before being turned over to the fatteners . |
| 7 | As of late July both camps were surrounded by army units and Murr insisted that the blockade would continue until all heavy and medium-calibre weaponry had been turned over to the government . |
| 8 | CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or might not be turned over to the Russians and Partisans to be shot . |
| 9 | The whole of the floor of one of the big sheds had been turned over to the making of the signs . |
| 10 | Much of the Colombian countryside has been turned over to the growing of soya and sorghum to feed chickens , thus depriving the Colombian peasants in the area of a food supply and contributing to the increased protein deficit in Colombia . |
| 11 | LEFT : Merrets Mill was used as a cloth mill but was later turned over to the production of flock , shoddy and mill puff , by the Grist family . |
| 12 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 13 | If the idea seems viable , it will be turned over to the Research and Development ( R&D ) section , where any necessary research , design and development work can be carried out . |
| 14 | The first agrarian reform in the region took place in Mexico after the revolution and went through its most radical phase in the 1930s , when much good land was turned over to the ejidos , the public sector . |
| 15 | The common application programming interface that it and Hewlett-Packard Co worked on with Objectivity Inc , Ontos Inc , Object Design Inc and Versant Object Technology Inc , to allow developers to write programs that could utilise any object database — work that has been turned over to the Object Management Group — is a Spring technology ( UX No 362 ) . |
| 16 | If his estimate was wrong , batting was turned over to the rivals . |
| 17 | It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe . |
| 18 | Air pumps and the aeration features on many pumps/powerheads ensure plenty of oxygen in the water ( as does the fact that it is regularly turned over in the tank ) . |
| 19 | By 1953 , the stiffener works had gone , the buildings turned over to the manufacture of various inks and dyestuffs . |
| 20 | On Jan. 11 Cambodian officials turned over to the USA remains thought to be those of two US servicemen killed during the Vietnam war . |
| 21 | Federalist countries such as Belgium and Italy recoil from this idea , as they want interior-ministry work turned over to the EC . |
| 22 | I want that car brought in , turned over to the laboratory and given the works . ’ |
| 23 | The Second World War saw the end of piano manufacture , the works turned over to the production of aircraft parts by the Gloucester Aircraft Company , but after the war , piano manufacture started up again . |
| 24 | The bloody jacket was sent south as a trophy and the mangled remains turned over to the embalmers . |
| 25 | The breakthrough was a squat we turned over on the south coast , two years back . |
| 26 | She turned over on the bed and sat up . |
| 27 | I remember one day on the 8th there was a little dinghy turned over on the lake and he hooked his tee-shot , hit the boat and came out on the fairway — the shape of things to come ! |
| 28 | He turned over on the ground , and put his hand to his cock and squeezed himself . |
| 29 | Patrick turned over in the bed , and discovered that there was a fire burning in the grate and a breakfast tray on the small side-table beside the bed . |
| 30 | The victims were crushed to death when the coach turned over in the air and smashed into the ground roof downwards . |