Example sentences of "[vb past] out [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That factory turned out to be a short-lived exercise and a gross waste of Government money . |
| 2 | The cafe turned out to be a strange garish world of sandy yellow . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It turned out to be a good choice . ’ |
| 5 | Whatever her intentions , he turned out to be a good old-fashioned liberal . |
| 6 | They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity . |
| 7 | They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity . |
| 8 | Now on tornado the development costs erm I know , exceeded the original expectation by quite a considerable margin but the production costs were much less and overall , taking the two lots together , it turned out to be a good buy . |
| 9 | Of course , in retrospect , the decision to close down Ryde and Sandown and the cost of the new offices turned out to be a major contributory factor to the problems that we now find ourselves in . |
| 10 | This turned out to be a major administrative problem . |
| 11 | So let's hope Shirley Bassey turned out to be a Real Big Spender and put the Goldfinger on him to the tune of a few bob . |
| 12 | I mean , Ted Morgan turned out to be a real find , did n't he ? |
| 13 | It turned out to be a real disaster when , in the first few days , we had an engine room fire which kept us alongside at Torquay for practically the whole three weeks . |
| 14 | Mrs Sibylle Alexander ( as she now is ) turned out to be a tall and handsome woman in her late sixties . |
| 15 | ‘ We are dealing with the assumed possession by the officers of government of what turned out to be a void authority . |
| 16 | Hallborough turned out to be a picturesque Cotswold village with one main street . |
| 17 | She had given her kisses to a clown , he wrote , and was much gratified when MacBride turned out to be a drunken bully . |
| 18 | ‘ Self ’ turned out to be a dark-complexioned , somewhat solemn- looking young woman , with large eyes and swept-back hair parted in the middle . |
| 19 | Charlie , who turned out to be a regular size , was dealt with fairly quickly , but it took almost an hour to find anything that did n't make Tommy look as if he was entering a sack race . |
| 20 | The van turned out to be a 1938 vintage vehicle which was due to enter the London to Brighton rally . |
| 21 | That was the case in which the owner , Mr. Dobson , sold his gold watch and diamond ring in return for a building society cheque which turned out to be a stolen cheque and worthless . |
| 22 | Donald would pull on his pint ( he had to be fairly drunk in order to even start discussing medicine ) — ‘ In fact , ’ he would say , ‘ turned out to be a bloody brain tumour ‘ did n't it ? ’ |
| 23 | A sound enough plan in theory , but in practice it turned out to be a devilish job . |
| 24 | All this effort turned out to be a total waste of time because , in the event , only a few bars of ‘ Music of the Night ’ wheezed from the instrument , and that so sotto voce that it could scarcely be heard . |
| 25 | But the crossing from Newcastle turned out to be a mini holiday in itself and very soon we were nosing our way through the islands and reefs which guard the entrance to Bergen 's Hanseatic harbour . |
| 26 | The ‘ special ’ turned out to be a cartwheel-sized pizza like a slice of the earth 's crust , its five feet of rim volcanically erupting . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They recently held their first practice session at Barbados House , which turned out to be a rousing occasion . |
| 29 | The man he described as ‘ the top Russian espionage agent in the United States — Alger Hiss 's boss ’ turned out to be a blameless university professor and China expert , Owen Lattimore , but it did not matter . |
| 30 | As readers were to discover , The Golden Gate turned out to be a beguiling work , an accessible and witty story of modern Californians . |