Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] turn [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of the service turned out to be much higher than had been predicted . |
| 2 | A friend of mine suggests this is because my system is all transistor rather than valves , but the processor and power amp both sound fine when the volume of each is turned up with the volume of the other turned down . |
| 3 | And organiser Tom Gillen , of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions , urges members of the public to turn out in force to show their concern . |
| 4 | There 's still a chance of the stuff turning up ; not the camera , but the notebooks , yes . ’ |
| 5 | By this time , clinical neurologists had begun to catalogue the effects of damage to association cortex , describing deficits in speech comprehension , object recognition , and spatial orientation , depending on which part of the brain turned out to be damaged . |
| 6 | When Oh Calcutta ! opened in Stockholm there was more of a stir caused outside the theatre on the first night than on the stage , when six members of the audience turned Up stark naked to take their seats . |
| 7 | Mr Gordon Greig of the Mail turned up a fresh page in his notebook , and Mr Chris Moncrieff of the Press Association , who could sleep standing up , opened a parrot-like eye . |
| 8 | Living by faith in the story of the Incarnation turns out to be for these writers a totally absorbing game , the playing of which is a self-validating exercise that releases human creative energies to the full and extends the play of divine wisdom before the face of God . |
| 9 | The turn of the century saw at least part of the site turned over to saw milling , but by 1911 Gladman and Co , piano makers , were there . |
| 10 | Whatever the ultimate nature of the signal turns out to be , there is another question to be asked . |
| 11 | Likewise , a command enjoining some action which was logically impossible , or which had already been carried out , or a lie that through ignorance on the part of the perpetrator turned out to be objectively true , can both be considered defective through the lack of a canonical trait . |
| 12 | She had to drive to the end of the street to turn round ; when she passed Giles 's house on the way back the door was closed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mosley resigned from the Labour government in 1930 as a result of the Cabinet turning down his reflationary programme contained in the Mosley Memorandum . |
| 15 | While a boycott by the ND , Communist Party ( KKE-Exterior ) and several left-wing parties meant that the Pasok candidate had no strong challengers , over 70 per cent of the electorate turned out , responding to the Pasok description of the vote as a referendum against the government 's austerity measures . |
| 16 | Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate . |
| 17 | The sight of the brigade turning out to a call , pulled by magnificent black horses , drew every child within half a mile of the Works main gates when the warning hooter sounded . |
| 18 | A good deal of discussion towards the end of the meeting turned around the University 's interest in setting up an alumni society . |
| 19 | Recent ethnography of writing has demonstrated that the same is true for many contemporary societies now labelled ‘ literate ’ ; much of the practice turns out to be , as in Iran ( see below , Section 2 ) , writing names on crates of produce , keeping records of business transactions , writing cheques etc. , or , as in English factories , reading warning or instruction labels , one-word sign symbols and signing names or filling in forms ( see Section 3 ) . |
| 20 | At the election , the women of the borough turned up in large numbers shouting " No Sow and Pigs " . |
| 21 | The source of the smoke turned out to be a huge cast-iron incinerator behind the house which had been crammed full of papers and what seemed to be old clothes . |
| 22 | An examination of the engine-room turned up no signs of protrusions , angle-beams or sharp metallic corners that could have caused the injury . |
| 23 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 24 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 25 | which is about the future and about as accurate as any forecasting of the future turns out to be , a robot agitator is formed in the shape of a young woman . |
| 26 | It often happens , especially if you train only spasmodically , that you start off the season with a personal best time , get really excited because you think there is a lot more to come and then the rest of the summer turns out to be something of a damp squib . |
| 27 | 2 How many degrees will the minute hand of a clock turn through in : |
| 28 | The company logo — which includes the Royal Warrant and a special effect showing the corner of a carpet turned back to reveal the label — was hand painted along it 's length and emblazoned on the rear doors . |
| 29 | There will be no question of a visitor turning up to find a hotel half built . |
| 30 | I may have been wrong proportionately as many times as the result of an amniocentesis turns out to have been wrong : that is , being wrong in both cases amounts to a hypothetical possibility , but is not normal . |