Example sentences of "have been turned [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The semiotic approach to subcultural style pioneered by Dick Hebdige and his cohorts at Birmingham 's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies — reading into working-class consumption for evidence of myriad micro-resistances to the status quo — has been turned arse about tit . |
| 2 | Supporters and many critics agree that the old policy agenda has been turned upside down . |
| 3 | For Emeruwa , life has been turned upside down after an ankle injury in a sevens match in 1984 . |
| 4 | The paradigm of religion has been turned upside down . |
| 5 | In the twenty-two years since Ian Paisley had campaigned for Kilfedder in West Belfast , the world had been turned upside down more than once and the three men had crossed and re-crossed each other , like figures in a bizarre dance . |
| 6 | Society was increasingly corrupt , he declared , and values had been turned upside down . |
| 7 | Our home had been turned upside down , our little boy , who we now loved so much , was diagnosed as retarded and Andreas was told he would be jailed for up to seven years in Cyprus . |
| 8 | One , that was eventually exported to Mycenae , had been turned upside down , transforming its mouth into a pedestal base , and its original base had been sawn off and replaced with a moulded rim of gilded bronze ; then a pair of wooden handles and a spout were added , completing the transformation of the Egyptian vessel into a Minoan jar . |
| 9 | It was crammed full of good ideas which you could n't sensibly argue with , but they had been turned upside down . |
| 10 | What could she say — that , since her promise to help Adam , her whole life had been turned upside down ? |
| 11 | All of a sudden , the arguments have been turned upside down . |