Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] out [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if marriage turns out to be less than satisfactory in the arena of personal fulfilment , this is not only for the marriage partners . |
| 2 | Do n't permit the unions ' political levy-paying members a ballot to have their say on the leadership contest , because democracy turns out to be too expensive . |
| 3 | Firstly , in the government 's calculations , it had allowed only an increase of 4 per cent in the spending of local authorities over the expenditure under the last year of the rating system , whereas inflation turned out to be in excess of 7 per cent . |
| 4 | She had given her kisses to a clown , he wrote , and was much gratified when MacBride turned out to be a drunken bully . |
| 5 | The journey , however , proves to be a descent into hell , for Comala turns out to be a ghost town which has been devastated by the oppression of his father , the tyrannical landowner Pedro Páramo , and whose few remaining inhabitants live in despair , convinced that they have been banished forever from the grace of God . |
| 6 | Which is why it always surprises me when people turn out to be such bad listeners . |