Example sentences of "[noun] turns [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | But whether artificial intelligence turns out to be good enough for the movie makers is likely to be another matter . |
| 32 | Telephone Frank turns out to be not only a money expert , or an expert on not having any . |
| 33 | Motorola Inc 's internal IT General Systems Sector turns out to be its biggest Unix customer . |
| 34 | He has used the bill as security to borrow money ; if that security turns out to be worthless , then he should be liable for compensation to the lender of funds . |
| 35 | Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story . |
| 36 | The " morsel of bread ; offered to the guests turns out to be a meal of fresh cakes , curds and milk , and the best veal . |
| 37 | In this case , the characteristic impedance turns out to be simply Particularly interesting behaviour arises when the choice , is made , for then equals the fixed resistance at all frequencies and correct termination is easy . |
| 38 | When a record turns out to be a synonym , there are two alternatives : these are to store the synonym at once , in which case the process is called a one-pass load , or to load it in two passes , which is called a two-pass load . |
| 39 | Living by faith in the story of the Incarnation turns out to be for these writers a totally absorbing game , the playing of which is a self-validating exercise that releases human creative energies to the full and extends the play of divine wisdom before the face of God . |
| 40 | Nothing in biology turns out to be simple , however . |
| 41 | With large numbers this can cause even worse handling and registration problems than for paper , and even , perhaps , extra complications if a disk turns out to be corrupt ( ‘ It was OK when I handed it in . ’ ) |
| 42 | His misfortune turns out to be a bonus for Portsmouth 's Alan been called up to augment the 17-strong travelling party . |
| 43 | Yet this depressing picture turns out to be quite unpredictive of later development . |
| 44 | However , it could be that the Gulf war turns out to be more like Vietnam than Korea . |
| 45 | In Sybil , the humble heroine turns out to be an heiress and is able to marry her well-meaning aristocratic lover without compromising the class system , and a similar stroke of good fortune resolves the love stories in Shirley and North and South . |
| 46 | Like the absence of dilation in the pupils following a head injury , this apparently small , perhaps even seemingly trivial , symptom turns out to be of crucial importance . |
| 47 | In the latest issue of Microprocessor Report , editor Michael Slater concludes that ‘ Intel 's pre-emptive strike against the ACE Initiative turns out to be , at best , a result of wishful thinking , and at worst , a fraud . ’ |
| 48 | Digital Equipment Corp 's big-name appointment to head its sales and marketing organisation turns out to be Ed Lucente — nicknamed Neutron Eddie at IBM Corp after he was given the job of pushing administrative staff out of their offices and onto the road as sales and support personnel , so that the people were gone but the buildings still standing . |
| 49 | Robbe-Grillet 's contemporaneous work exhibits similar characteristics : in La Maison de rendez-vous , for example , a ‘ real ’ person turns out to be a dummy , or a narrative sequence is revealed as a theatrical representation or a description of a magazine cover . |
| 50 | This is true for simple problems but , as I have said many times before , as soon as the problems become more complicated our mathematical knowledge turns out to be greatly deficient . |
| 51 | What is even more important , the dislocation turns out to be movable . |
| 52 | The prince among the four ex-presidents turns out to be Jimmy Carter . |
| 53 | A promising mound under an oak turns out to be a toy bubble-car , and every white flash in the field is in fact an upturned flint . |
| 54 | Besides , as field staff said , ‘ you can always throw it away later ’ if the pollution turns out to be unimportant and the officer wants to avoid the trouble of processing , that is , bureaucratically accounting for , his sample . |
| 55 | Users can not switch to other suppliers while a contract is in place , even if the service turns out to be too expensive or otherwise unsatisfactory . |
| 56 | But since racism is caused by racists and not by their targets , it does n't matter how well behaved or united they are : the god turns out to be insatiable . |
| 57 | THE UK TURNS OUT TO BE A BRIGHT SPOT IN THE TROUBLED SIEMENS NIXDORF EMPIRE |
| 58 | For a number of shopaholics , however , that price turns out to be dizzyingly high — when shopping turns from a pleasure , or an occasional treat , into an uncontrollable obsession that chomps its way through the bank account , with sometimes disastrous effects . |
| 59 | The probability of any particular letter being miscopied on any one copying occasion turns out to be a little more than one in a billion . |
| 60 | The above relationship turns out to be true for any two magnetically coupled circuits . |