Example sentences of "had turned [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , far from being the paper-plates-and-pasta evening which Alex had imagined , this dinner party had turned out to be solid English upper-middle-class stuff of the most formal kind . |
| 2 | This particular example demonstrated a common pitfall of this kind of positivist criminology : even if all the possessors of the chromosomal anomaly had turned out to be persistent criminals ( in the event , they did not ) then it would still only have been capable of ‘ explaining ’ a fraction of 1 per cent of recorded crime , simply because the condition was so rare . |
| 3 | Another crock of gold that had turned out to be precious metal all right ; but for somebody else . |
| 4 | She had just had painful surgery to remove an ovarian cyst that had turned out to be benign . |
| 5 | She 'd bought a pot of raspberry jam that had turned out to be bad . |
| 6 | A challenge perhaps , but heaven knows what Mr Donovan 's fans would have done with their bedroom posters if he had turned out to be gay . |