Example sentences of "[was/were] turned [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when standard statistical tests aimed at revealing small , regular changes in the pattern of variability were turned on the data from the meridian circle they showed an unambiguously clear trace of a periodic variation with a repeating rhythm of 76 years . |
| 2 | Powerful stadium-style lights were turned onto the buildings where 105 followers of cult leader David Koresh have been barricaded since a shootout with men of the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearms on 28 February in which four federal agents were killed . |
| 3 | They were forbidden by law to return to within thirty kilometres of their estates , and their houses were turned into the offices of state farms , rest homes for party bosses or factory workers , schools , mad-houses , orphanages or just left to crumble . |
| 4 | The surpluses increasingly generated by eighteenth century agriculture were turned by the cash economy into increased consumption of non-agricultural produce , providing savings and capital for non-agricultural demand and investment , as Malthus observed ( 1836 ) . |
| 5 | Food was placed to sizzle on the barbecue , and was turned with the help of long utensils , and as she worked beside Silas , moving rapidly to turn first one piece and then another , Lucy became conscious of a feeling of quiet satisfaction . |
| 6 | Knew her immediately , even though her face was turned to the window and she was looking out . |
| 7 | Culley had no idea whether what he was saying was taking effect ; Sanchez 's face was turned to the light , his cheek deeply shadowed . |
| 8 | However , the home team took the lead after 25 minutes when David Straney outpaced the Larne full back and his low cross was turned into the net by Clarke . |
| 9 | But Annadale levelled in the 41st minute when Chris Jackson sent John Stephens clear and his cross was turned into the net by a Western defender . |
| 10 | The seasiders increased their lead on 37 minutes when Glendinning again provided the cross from the left which was turned into the net by McCallan at the back post . |
| 11 | erm I just put that up , which should have been up while we were talking about money , which is erm the beautiful Oxford crown , which you can see downstairs , which was minted at New Inn Hall , the college that emptied , and was turned into the mint , mostly from college plate . |
| 12 | They hurried into an 11th minute lead when Gordon Strachan 's free kick was turned into the path of Rod Wallace by defender Alan Kernaghan , and Wallace duly collected his eighth goal of the season . |
| 13 | Margery charitably takes notice of her , whereupon she continues to lament , claiming her daughter was turned into the dog Margery sees weeping by a clerk whose advances she refused . |
| 14 | His head was turned towards the door , where we could hear footsteps approaching . |
| 15 | In 1875 with the southern third of the country disposed of , attention was turned towards the Highlands . |
| 16 | So the very thing that was supposed to wake them up , the noise of the alarm bell , was turned in the dream into a wishful of now I can go on sleeping , okay there 's a bell , but it 's Sunday morning , you know , the bells are ringing , the church bells are ringing , I can go on sleeping , so they went on sleeping and they were late for the exam . |
| 17 | Thus , while the state attempted to monopolize such discussion as took place — for example when the ‘ neutral ’ forum for discussion at the VEC seminar was turned by the authorities into a reassurance session — this was resisted locally by successful intervention and contestation at the VEC seminar both by an outside speaker and by DUC activists , and by forcing the issue back on the table for discussion at the local authority level . |
| 18 | Of particular importance was the eucharist , which involved the miracle of transubstantiation ; since the twelfth century , the Catholic church had argued that , although the ‘ accidents ’ ( or external appearance ) of the bread and wine remained unchanged during the mass , the substance of both was turned by the priest at the moment of consecration into the body and blood of Christ . |
| 19 | But the anticlerical spirit was turned against the archbishop and the traditional , worldly , married clergy of Milan , not against the church as such , and won in time a measure of support from the reformed papacy . |