Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second reason why an apparent consent or refusal of consent may not be a true consent or refusal is that it may not have been made with reference to the particular circumstances in which it turns out to be relevant . |
| 2 | Although the matter does not arise in this appeal because Woolwich were fully aware of all the relevant circumstances , I can not help feeling that there is some illogicality in treating as voluntary a payment by someone who justifiably believes that the demand is lawful whereas in fact it turns out to be unlawful . |
| 3 | Fortunately it turns out to be impossible to give a simple answer to this question and possible to give a more complex answer allowing both possibilities . |
| 4 | That 's what you 'd think about it if you look at it as a piece of morphology , the shell shape — it turns out to be all one species with gene flow , hybridization right across the lot . |
| 5 | Oh they have this silly man who picks up the telephone in a he 's er got a chef 's hat on and he says Giovanni 's and then it was , it turns out to be one of his old friends so he lapses into sort of Glaswegian . |
| 6 | They do n't have time to verify stuff , a lot of the time they just put it out and it turns out to be false . |
| 7 | It turns out to be convenient to put ( 10.9 ) where ψ and λ are considered as time-like and space-like coordinates , which may then be rescaled by putting , . |
| 8 | It turns out to be convenient to make the coordinate transformation . |
| 9 | If it turns out to be incapable of being remedied , the result may well be different . |
| 10 | ‘ But I 'm too hungry to think about it , so let's eat it first , and then if it turns out to be wrong to eat it , I promise to be very sorry . ’ |
| 11 | Like a bottle you expect to have whisky in and it turns out to be full of a specimen for the doctor . ’ |
| 12 | A person who is illegitimate may very well resent being called a bastard , although it happens literally to be true . |
| 13 | So it came out to be impossible to d to drive on paving , that . |
| 14 | Then there 's ‘ Silver Milkboy ’ , which was the cause of a large number of red faces when it turned out to be female ! |
| 15 | But it turned out to be one of the most marvellous things we ever did . |
| 16 | It turned out to be one of The Goodies , who were making a comedy programme for their series in the area . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( It turned out to be one : Giorgio . ) |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | — it turned out to be one of the senior investigating officers . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But despite all the odds , it turned out to be better than most people expected . |
| 24 | And I god so I dashed round , got a long weekend it turned out to be marvellous . |
| 25 | But it turned out to be fascinating . ’ |
| 26 | So er I mean if it turned out to be twelve weeks work . |
| 27 | It turned out to be accurate in every respect . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Actually , although I said ‘ he ’ , when the body was examined it turned out to be that of a woman in male dress . |