Example sentences of "turn [adv] [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This has always been my favourite room , ’ says Mary Jane , ‘ and it 's turned out to be a perfect playroom for Emily and her friends . |
| 2 | The emergence of the theory of evolution has turned out to be a complex process . |
| 3 | Molly 's mother , married for her beauty , had turned out to be a solemn and conventional woman , alternately angry and exhausted . |
| 4 | Her style of government has turned out to be a marvellous make-work scheme for political scientists , contemporary historians and political commentators . |
| 5 | As Keane says ‘ How do we guarantee the survival and future growth of democracy … the troubling paradox is the growing respectability of democracy has turned out to be a disappointing affair — ; certainly if democracy means a pluralistic system of power wherein decisions of concern to collectives of various others within civil society and the state are made directly or indirectly by their members ’ . |
| 6 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath . |
| 8 | PLEASURE DOMES IN THE BUNKER Putting their money where the boom beckoned has turned out to be a major handicap for several super-golf-course developers |
| 9 | In the 1980s , competition between banks and building societies has turned out to be a major factor in the development of financial markets in the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 11 | He had turned out to be a lame duck and limped out of her life . |
| 12 | It had turned out to be a strange sort of holiday . |
| 13 | AN INDIAN restaurant taking part in The Sun 's free curry offer has turned out to be a right poppadump . |
| 14 | The 100 metres turned out to be a controversial race . |
| 15 | rule has turned out to be a social disaster and an indefensible imposition . |
| 16 | ‘ Even if the poetry reading had turned out to be a giant bore , the audience itself would have been an event ’ , McGrath added . |
| 17 | The villa had turned out to be a converted barn featuring renovated stone walls , distressed oak furniture , and a large resident population of rats , bats , wasps , flies , spiders and cockroaches , all of which strongly resented our intrusion into their habitat . |
| 18 | The crazy guy , now at the bottom of the Baltic with his crew , had turned out to be a secret and tormented homosexual , a condition he had hidden under an apparently conventional marriage . |
| 19 | ‘ That Socialism in England has turned out to be a bitter farce . ’ |
| 20 | It would n't have mattered if he had turned out to be a Celtic supporter at that decisive moment because I had the Celtic team on my tongue all ready to trot out , starting with Kennaway , Cook , McGonigle . |
| 21 | Far from being the ‘ safe ’ appointment as most people imagined — an impression enhanced when he resigned from the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland after refusing to apologise for attending the Catholic funeral mass of a colleague — he has turned out to be a sweeping , radical reformer . |
| 22 | A noise at 44,000 miles turned out to be the early warning of a catastrophic failure as , over the next 4,000 miles the rollers chewed their way 5mm into the front pump housing causing a gradual loss of power steering . |
| 23 | IN THE words of the Gaullist leader , Jacques Chirac , France 's eagerly awaited new government has turned out to be the former Rocard government minus Michel Rocard . |
| 24 | In fact , the way I had instinctively started to limp turned out to be the best : a short step on the left heel with the leg stiff and a long springing step on the right . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm relieved to see slow-dancing with me has n't turned out to be the traumatic experience you obviously feared . ’ |
| 26 | These turned out to be the basic difficulties facing the BFASS in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 27 | Although Stan was older and previously dominant , by virtue of being the only dog , he had not turned out to be the natural leader of he pair . |
| 28 | Jesus , that woman had turned out to be the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 29 | Parental attitudes , like early physical-care practices , have not turned out to be the clear-cut determinants of personality development one had hoped for . |
| 30 | She took her doctorate in the study of the UFO movement itself , and has worked with several British researchers on what has turned out to be an illuminating project . |