Example sentences of "[vb base] out to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With such a small yet historically vital authenticated oeuvre , these ‘ doubtful ’ works surely cry out to be recorded as Volume 4 of ASV 's series , fenced around of course with all proper scholarly dubitation . |
| 2 | The campus novel — that highly characteristic invention of the 1950s in Anglo-America — provides a natural arena for that debate , since a university can easily represent a claim to false superiority , and such claims by their very nature cry out to be tested and explored . |
| 3 | Still , admissions cry out to be made . |
| 4 | Byrd and Philippe de Monte ; Byrd and Taverner ; Byrd and keyboard composers of Redford 's generation ; Byrd and Tallis ; Byrd and Parsons : Byrd research has brought these and many other connections to light , and they cry out to be the stuff of records called ‘ Byrd and his contemporaries ’ . |
| 5 | I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 6 | ‘ I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 7 | Microlights have at last achieved what they set out to be : a largely reliable and relatively cheap way to fly . |
| 8 | and , what he did , set out to be , somebody who earned his living by writing , and that was a new idea . |
| 9 | The only thing they seem to have in common is their isolated nature and striking individuality , and they scream out to be included in a list of favourite miniature mountain gems . |
| 10 | For people who do n't understand , College Green is the bit of greenery outside Westminster where people rush out to be interviewed on camera . |
| 11 | They do n't mean to upset people , it 's not they go out to be particularly , you know , horrible . |
| 12 | , well we shall , we shall do , but eh , in actual fact , cos my son , who we go out to be with of course is over in this Country at the moment . |
| 13 | Berkeley did after all turn out to be my last dalliance with the education system . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One might also point to the fear among many politicians of electoral retribution if radical measures turn out to be unpopular . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Odd-Knut has given him some eggs that turn out to be frozen . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Shoes always turn out to be wrong for the climate . |
| 20 | 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 ! ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Most turn out to be experienced travellers , trumping Mongolia with Patagonia in competitive conversation over the dinner table . |
| 25 | In Paris tomorrow , I am meeting my French and Italian opposite numbers , whoever they turn out to be just now . |
| 26 | The existence of other gods who turn out to be mere ‘ pretenders ’ to divinity raises the question of what makes a god a God . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | Even where the media report sightings of what are apparently other phenomena , they often turn out to be the same species . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |