Example sentences of "turning out to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shops were empty from panic-buying ahead of Czechoslovakia 's ‘ big bang ’ — which is turning out to be more like a big pop . |
| 2 | The nuthouse was turning out to be quite cosmopolitan with a Cockney and a German as well as the locals . |
| 3 | You know , it 's turning out to be a brilliant story to do . |
| 4 | He had been an idealist with many good ideas at first , only later making errors , turning out to be basically evil , and becoming insane and a mass murderer . |
| 5 | It was turning out to be a day unlike any other he had spent at Gibbet Hall . |
| 6 | The Government controls Parliament 's time and it is therefore able to limit debate where its proposals are proving controversial or where a rational examination of them is turning out to be embarrassing . |
| 7 | Yet unlikely figures often have a nasty habit of turning out to be true . |
| 8 | He also called for a full investigation into Orkney 's Social Work Department , and the RSSPCC whose involvement was turning out to be very much more fundamental than had at first been supposed . |
| 9 | Somehow this tea was not turning out to be the delightful social event she had hoped for , full of contented tittle-tattle and scornful criticism of all who were not Scottish and United Church . |
| 10 | Humanism has resulted in a hedonistic way of life which is turning out to be anti-intellectual and irrational — consider the works of Francis Bacon — or Sid Vicious . |
| 11 | Amazing , when you thought about it , but it was turning out to be an amazing war . |
| 12 | Rupert Murdoch 's company is not turning out to be all the hype suggested it would . |
| 13 | Because the country 's traditional strength is in manufacturing , which can be done anywhere , such migration is turning out to be alarmingly common . |
| 14 | Calling the P5 a ‘ paper tiger ’ responsible for the collapse of ACE and claiming that the chip fails to live up to its promises , Slater notes that ‘ the P5 is turning out to be not a few months behind the R4000 , but over a year later — and by the time the P5 is shipping , the MIPS semiconductor partners will be shipping the R4400 with perhaps 50% better performance than the P5 . ’ |
| 15 | But why are the French turning out to be the natural heirs ? |
| 16 | ‘ Bloody disaster , ’ Hugh said , ‘ this holiday 's turning out to be . ’ |
| 17 | They may have been glad , since she was turning out to be hard to amuse , that she slept deeply in the early afternoons . |
| 18 | Dorrainge was turning out to be very meddlesome . |
| 19 | The New Left was in practice turning out to be almost as bad as the Old Left when it came to defining political priorities and treating women as the cheer-leaders , nurturers and sexual services brigade of the revolution . |
| 20 | Being an artist 's model was turning out to be somewhat more traumatic than she had anticipated . |
| 21 | It was turning out to be quite a good day . |
| 22 | Stef was turning out to be very trying ; she seemed unable to accept that one love can finish just like that — poof ! — and a new one begin . |
| 23 | Quite glad to abandon what was turning out to be a very wet hunt , she walked with the little girl back to the hotel . |
| 24 | With Stanley turning out to be , in the best Ben Franklin tradition , an inventor and mechanical genius on the side , things get much more than a little too easy . |
| 25 | The evening was turning out to be much more enjoyable than she 'd anticipated . |
| 26 | But , we know that April was a low figure , we also know that July and August are low a figure which comes out from this graph and was given to me by the director yesterday , is a genuine average which is turning out to be between a hundred and a hundred and ten placements per month twelve hundred to fourteen hundred placements per year a thr over a three year average residency period three thousand six hundred to four thousand two hundred placements in residential care , where then is the real problem . |
| 27 | This assignment that , initially , had seemed simple and straightforward was turning out to be no such thing . |
| 28 | The young man looked startled that what he 'd thought was just a speck in his eye was turning out to be something much more serious . |
| 29 | ‘ Some lioness you 're turning out to be , ’ she muttered , with grim humour . |
| 30 | It was not turning out to be the kind of summer she had intended . |