Example sentences of "it [vb past] out to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it came out to be impossible to d to drive on paving , that . |
| 2 | Then there 's ‘ Silver Milkboy ’ , which was the cause of a large number of red faces when it turned out to be female ! |
| 3 | But it turned out to be one of the most marvellous things we ever did . |
| 4 | It turned out to be one of The Goodies , who were making a comedy programme for their series in the area . |
| 5 | He was shadowed everywhere in Sheffield , and he looked back on the experience as his most annoying transfer hid — particularly as it turned out to be one of his rare failures . |
| 6 | ( It turned out to be one : Giorgio . ) |
| 7 | It turned out to be one of the buoys which marked the safe limits of the channel for the ships entering and leaving the cavern . |
| 8 | — it turned out to be one of the senior investigating officers . |
| 9 | ‘ In the beginning the Revie era promised so much , but in the end it turned out to be one of our national game 's most unsatisfactory episodes . ’ |
| 10 | It turned out to be one of the windiest days of the year for the delicate process of winching the three ton cross to the west end of the cathedral nave . |
| 11 | But despite all the odds , it turned out to be better than most people expected . |
| 12 | And I god so I dashed round , got a long weekend it turned out to be marvellous . |
| 13 | But it turned out to be fascinating . ’ |
| 14 | So er I mean if it turned out to be twelve weeks work . |
| 15 | It turned out to be accurate in every respect . |
| 16 | Clem Shaw , the maker of Channel 4 's film for Cutting Edge , told the Times : ‘ We thought we 'd be looking at lots of ramblers trampling over delicate areas , but it turned out to be much more of a social perspective than an environmental one ; more of a political issue than I 'd intended . ’ |
| 17 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 18 | Actually , although I said ‘ he ’ , when the body was examined it turned out to be that of a woman in male dress . |
| 19 | It turned out to be sensual depression , which I was told was different altogether . |
| 20 | and then and then I s and then in me head I did erm seven take away ten and then I worked it out and it turned out to be three . |
| 21 | But it turned out to be three and she was put in this an awkward position and she does n't know what to do , the poor girl who got picked ! |
| 22 | It was the battle hymn of the striking coal miners in 1984 , and the old man used to sing it while he watched them fighting the police on the television , but it turned out to be another lost cause . |
| 23 | Afterwards it turned out to be indispensable to his career . |
| 24 | One of you was talking to me at er lunchtime and telling me that he recently bought er er a C D of Dvorak 's Slavonic dances and when he played it it turned out to be some country and western music . |
| 25 | It turned out to be damp . |
| 26 | Although described by the World Challenge brochure as an area rarely visited by Europeans , it turned out to be popular enough with tourists for each village to have its own visitors ' book ! |
| 27 | I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty . |
| 28 | You see , it turned out to be scarlet fever , which is a notifiable disease . |
| 29 | It turned out to be French : a Nieuport . |
| 30 | It turned out to be this cargo net . |