Example sentences of "be turned [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have not eaten and I am in rags and all I ask is a share of your fire before I am turned out into the cold night again … |
| 2 | But what commits the muscle to this final pathway and what ensures that all the necessary genes are turned on at the same time ? |
| 3 | Just as in reverse discourse the categories of subordination are turned back upon the regimes of truth which disqualify , so this ‘ other ’ sensibility is in part affirmed as an inversion and absence of sensibility 's traditional criteria . |
| 4 | The hill farms generally have small fields near the valley bottoms , larger rough grazing ‘ in-bye ’ areas which adjoin the open hill , and common hill land where sheep , ponies , and occasionally cattle are turned out during the summer . |
| 5 | Many of these buyers are turned off by the sleek lines and road-sensitive ride of classy European marques such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz . |
| 6 | And for those who think they know nothing about building and are turned off by the sight of rotting wood , then perhaps this will help to change their attitude . |
| 7 | The company says the trainer market 's core consumers are turned off by the Clarks name . |
| 8 | Neff 's approach was to produce corporate performance charts of his firm 's most successful clients , indicating that their fortunes had been turned around by the strategic recruitment of executives headhunted for them by Spencer Stuart . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Work already done on ANDF has been turned over to the European Commission 's Open Microprocessor Initiative — a £40m effort to develop next-generation microprocessor and software technology ( UX Nos 381 , 315 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The whole of the floor of one of the big sheds had been turned over to the making of the signs . |
| 17 | It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe . |
| 18 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 19 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 20 | Requests to establish a clearway to prevent cars parking in the stop zone have been turned down on the grounds the restriction would be difficult to impose . |
| 21 | A proposal by the unit to investigate engineering research has recently been turned down by the Social Science Research Council . |
| 22 | President Chissano had offered an immediate armistice , but this had been turned down by the rebel leader . |
| 23 | A request from Shetland farmers to ban all imports of dairy cattle to save their stocks from BSE infection has been turned down by the Shetland Island Council . |
| 24 | A major mining project has been turned down by the Australian Labour government in favour of preserving species unique to the area and defending the land rights of Aborigines . |
| 25 | Proposals for bilateral agreements , put forward by both these countries , have been turned down by the UK Department of the Environment on the grounds that Britain , along with other European Community countries , is aiming to achieve self-sufficiency in waste disposal . |
| 26 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 27 | The £1,800 earmarked for extensions and alterations to the Civic Centre had not in fact been turned down by the Liberal administration but had merely been cynically deferred until after the byelection ! |
| 28 | Later , it emerged that Caledonian Mining had sought a controlling interest rather than an outright takeover , but had been turned down by the consortium . |
| 29 | He said Mr McGuigan had applied for a weapon and been turned down by the Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 30 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |