Example sentences of "turn out to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berkeley did after all turn out to be my last dalliance with the education system . |
| 2 | Appropriately for a drama in which the grossest crimes , though intended , turn out to be apparent rather than real , her chaffing in riddles of Bertram and the King in the final scene is a marvellous mix of the pointedly cutting and the teasingly playful . |
| 3 | One might also point to the fear among many politicians of electoral retribution if radical measures turn out to be unpopular . |
| 4 | The interesting thing about him is that he was one of those people who always turn out to be lucky no matter what they do . |
| 5 | Odd-Knut has given him some eggs that turn out to be frozen . |
| 6 | Thus the papers are relieved by the new , softer , explicitly pacifist and green hip-hop , like De La Soul ; or by reformed characters ; or by rappers who turn out to be pillars of the community ( Run DMC funding Sunday schools , or KRS-One starting a Stop The Violence campaign ) . |
| 7 | Shoes always turn out to be wrong for the climate . |
| 8 | A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists ; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious , corrupt , cynical and generally ‘ nauseating … these saintly people , living off the fat of the land , try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal ! ’ |
| 9 | In fact , the tools turn out to be either simply copper or arsenical copper ( none are made of bronze ) , whereas weapons are never made of copper alone and most are tin bronze . |
| 10 | To see whether they turn out to be brilliantly inventive , usefully practical or just plain daft , you 'll have to keep watching , not this space but that little square in your living room . |
| 11 | On Wednesday , Paddy Ashdown played the tough talker , the straight man who wo n't soften the harsh realities — though those realities immediately turn out to be the same smooth bribes offered by every other politician . |
| 12 | Most turn out to be experienced travellers , trumping Mongolia with Patagonia in competitive conversation over the dinner table . |
| 13 | In Paris tomorrow , I am meeting my French and Italian opposite numbers , whoever they turn out to be just now . |
| 14 | The existence of other gods who turn out to be mere ‘ pretenders ’ to divinity raises the question of what makes a god a God . |
| 15 | Should one assume that the parties take notice in the original position of their own fallibility , and agree on constitutional arrangements that will be self-correcting if it turns out that the fundamental beliefs concerning human nature , on which their substantive principles of justice are based , turn out to be wrong , or not ? |
| 16 | Even where the media report sightings of what are apparently other phenomena , they often turn out to be the same species . |
| 17 | And the overall groupings which we finally evolved for this book in terms of life focus also turn out to be remarkably close to the clusters of life styles picked out in an earlier American study taking just this perspective , Robert Williams and Claudine Wirths 's Lives through the Years . |
| 18 | On close inspection , several of the demonstrations of a dissociation between latent inhibition and habituation turn out to be of less theoretical significance than they first seemed . |
| 19 | Readers of Malcolm Lowry 's Under the Volcano ( 1947 ) , for example , are introduced to a herd of buffaloes which quickly turn out to be merely the phantoms of a drink-sodden mind . |
| 20 | It may be that a gene 's effects , as a matter of fact , turn out to be confined to the succession of bodies in which the gene sits . |
| 21 | Yet other varieties happen to find themselves in possession of new tricks : they turn out to be even better self-replicators than their predecessors and contemporaries . |
| 22 | Safeguards offered to detainees turn out to be more apparent than real . |
| 23 | More often than not , oils chosen this way turn out to be the very ones needed at the time , and as the person 's physical and emotional state alters , so might their aroma preference . |
| 24 | Such children turn out to be rather passive , colourless , unimaginative and incurious — burdened , in addition , with shyness and a sense of inadequacy . |
| 25 | On atomic and subatomic levels seemingly solid matter is seen to be small particles within particles which eventually turn out to be just pure energy . |
| 26 | Our supposed sample of university students might , just by chance , turn out to be nearly all from the faculty of law , which may be only a very small faculty . |
| 27 | No , it is all due to the faithful old Sun going through it usual cycle of activity and the so called dragons turn out to be early sightings of aurorae . |
| 28 | Just as in the real atmosphere , the shortwaves turn out to be unstable . |
| 29 | To those who would thoughtlessly dismiss this notion as ‘ silly ’ , Regan cautions that ‘ silly sounding ideas sometimes turn out to be true . |
| 30 | But they turn out to be of Ancient History , so the flies blunder moodily against the parlour window beyond which the June sun ripens tempting dinners at roadsides and down by the strong-smelling beach ; day after day after day . |