Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] turn [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the brave new world management and doctors are bound to make judgments about potential workload that turn out to be wrong . |
| 2 | Even if you do n't have children , there may be other limitations that turn out to be more inhibiting than inspiring . |
| 3 | In fact , the statistical significance test controversy was the precursor of concerns that turned out to be rather more fundamental to variable analysis ; concerns that were not voiced by such as Becker and other Symbolic Interactionists who wanted no truck with a sociology derived from variable analysis ( and whose criticisms we shall review later in this chapter ) , but by advocates of variable analytic and survey approaches . |
| 4 | The occupant of the next room ( John Goodman ) makes a lot of noise and turns out to be a serial killer . |
| 5 | There 's just a mum they like and a dad they hate , or vice versa , and the eccentric old aunts that I 've come across tend to be eccentric only because they 're secret alcoholics and smell like unwashed dogs or turn out to be suffering from Alzheimer 's disease or something . ) |
| 6 | And the Democrats among them also know that if they went on record against a war that turned out to be a great victory , President Bush would be even harder to beat in 1992 . |
| 7 | She parried with a weapon that turned out to be a medieval axe . |
| 8 | Could that answer be an intellectual deceit because you did n't , and do n't wish to be publicly identified as the boy going through travails that turns out to be so controversial ? |
| 9 | She had dragged him into a room that turned out to be empty . |
| 10 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 11 | But we 'd rather have a major scare that turned out to be a false alarm than the real thing and a late start , sir . ’ |
| 12 | He narrowly missed what he thought was a lamp post but turned out to be a tree , and reached for where the handle was usually to be found on a front door . |
| 13 | Orality is also a feature of the fiction of Juan Rulfo , whose Pedro Páramo re-creates the world of rural Mexico through a narrative which initially appears to be a conventionally written text but turns out to be constituted orally , with one of the characters , Juan Preciado , emerging as the internal author as he recounts his own story and hears and transmits those of the other characters . |
| 14 | A squat kit of chunky glassware , an orange rug of Iranian provenance and recent manufacture , a Spanish guitar and a pair of maracas , two oil paintings ( the first showing puppies and kittens asnooze , the second a nude , ideally rendered ) , an elephant 's foot , something that looked like a microphone stand but turned out to be a Canadian sculpture , a Bengali chess set , a first edition of Little Women , and various other cultural treasures from all over the world . |
| 15 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 16 | Odd-Knut has given him some eggs that turn out to be frozen . |
| 17 | A research programme is required to succeed , at least intermittently , to make novel predictions that turn out to be confirmed . |
| 18 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
| 19 | She was lying almost abeam of us , and at first I could n't see her hull , but only a sort of thickening of the mist that turned out to be her mast . |
| 20 | The ancient town of Montreuil with its twisting cobbled streets and lovely old buildings is full of character and turned out to be a great favourite of ours . |
| 21 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 22 | Around the corner , the small office which looks like a hole in the wall of a shady bookie and turns out to be something of an art gallery , is again amiably in flow . |
| 23 | He beat his chest and sang a song that turned out to be the old monarchist Bulgarian anthem . |
| 24 | A TEENAGER died in a blaze at his home after firemen were diverted by a call that turned out to be a student prank . |
| 25 | That damned undeserved consideration that turned out to be self-inflicted purgatory six years ago , and so bloody unnecessary in the end . |
| 26 | Money from the sale of an old cup that turned out to be valuable , that would be different ; Gran would take it , without much thanks to Ben for his trouble , and perhaps it would be the end of all her struggles . |
| 27 | All 17 strictures that turned out to be malignant were initially detected by barium enema . |
| 28 | In the end , too , it was the Japanese that turned out to be most amenable to the idea of throwing away and starting from scratch ; which is what Taos does . |
| 29 | In the end , too , it was the Japanese that turned out to be most amenable to the idea of throwing away and starting from scratch ; which is what Taos does . |
| 30 | The same thing happened with Phyllisia , she grew up throughout the book and turned out to be a beautiful woman , who was more sure of what she wanted and could stand up for it . |