Example sentences of "have turned [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investment has turned positive overall at the U K level and the regions which are leading investment expectations and this is people 's expectations about what they 're going to do in terms of investment in plant and machinery over the year ahead which I think is probably the meaningful one to focus on rather than buildings numbers erm the two regions which are leading that are the south west erm and that makes sense because the south west is , has the lowest number of firms who say that they 're working below capacity and also the West Midlands , for the last five surveys the West Midlands has either been the most optimistic |
| 2 | Now , however , it seems , the wheel has turned full circle . |
| 3 | The wheel has turned full circle . |
| 4 | To this extent the wheel has turned full circle and the NHS is back where it was when Mrs Thatcher was so irritated by stories of bad news about health services that she announced her review of the NHS . |
| 5 | Now the pattern has turned full circle . |
| 6 | In the case of television sets the wheel has turned full circle , from intensive distribution to selective distribution ( for the reasons just mentioned ) and back to intensive distribution . |
| 7 | If this turns out to the case the great wheel of horticulture really will have turned full circle . |
| 8 | Neo-elitists have contradictory normative beliefs to those of the traditionalists , arguing for the persistent significance of classical democratic ideals , and in this sense could be said to have turned traditional elitism on its head . |
| 9 | When the skulls in the crypt of St Bride 's Church were disinterred the wisps of hair remaining on them were found to have turned bright orange . |
| 10 | Equally revealing is a rare autobiography by an impoverished Norfolk farm labourer 's son , who had turned professional poacher and been disowned by his harsh father . |
| 11 | Punk had turned pop music and its attendant culture on its head . |
| 12 | István Nemeskürty replaced as president of Hungarian Television Gyula Bereczky , who resigned in November 1989 , saying that the board entrusted with supervising television and radio had turned editorial board meetings into scenes of party battles . |
| 13 | Our skins had turned bright red all over . |
| 14 | The liquid had turned bright red . |
| 15 | Thus the wheel had turned full circle . |
| 16 | The book has a satisfying pattern and a unity one would n't expect in anything covering that span of years and when Simon , at the end , wanted to leave the creeper as it was , the wheel had turned full circle . |
| 17 | It was also remarkable that Germans — thought to be so liberal — now looked to England as the last refuge of Liberty ; they applauded Nelson 's recent victories — the political wheel had turned full circle . |
| 18 | But by August her feelings had turned full circle , she wrote that she wanted to kill both Hendry and his manager Ian Doyle — the nightmare had begun . |
| 19 | And Corner well er it it 's turned full circle has it were when we came and then er there were other firms they did away with some part of the shop . |
| 20 | We have to wait patiently a little while longer yet to determine whether the new generation Alpha RISC machines have turned Digital Equipment Corp around or whether the company is pursuing the same downward curve as IBM Corp , because the company has still scarcely started shipping the machines in real numbers — but it does not make it clear whether that is a function of supply or demand . |
| 21 | Akram and Waqar have turned existing comprehension upside-down in that they are less dangerous with the new ball than with the old . |
| 22 | Sadly events have turned full circle and those who defended the university then must do so again . |
| 23 | Forty years later , after an enormously varied industrial career that has seen Haslam running a diverse range of businesses and involved in a wide variety of functions , from selling to personnel , events have turned full circle . |
| 24 | The parallel with Coldbath Fields dramatically symbolizes the way that policing , crime , and public order have turned full circle back to echo early Victorian conditions . |