Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] out to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I turned out to be reasonably fluent and uninhibited when expressing my own thoughts and feelings . |
| 2 | I turned out to be right . |
| 3 | There were n't many weighing machines in Baldersdale , but then a friend had to get one because of health problems and I turned out to be something around ten stones . |
| 4 | I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 5 | ‘ I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 6 | Mentally I reached out to be light and alive again . |
| 7 | The liability of someone held out to be a partner is co-extensive with the liability of partners properly so called ( see s14 above ) . |
| 8 | In it he expressed his own and his dancers ' sheer enjoyment of ‘ just dancing to music which cries out to be danced ’ . |
| 9 | Three papers published recently in Science move us a little closer to understanding the basis of the disease , which turns out to be highly complex . |
| 10 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 11 | They are going to a planet celled Malecandra ( which turns out to be Mars ) and , having made a previous recce there , they are under the impression that the inhabitants are fierce and eat men . |
| 12 | Nearly crash car again , as I pass what looks from the road like a progressive-minded chemist , but which turns out to be a printer 's shop . |
| 13 | King Idomeneus of Crete , caught in a storm at sea on his way home , vows to Neptune that if he is spared he will sacrifice to the gods the first person he meets on landing — which turns out to be , of course , his own son , Idamantes . |
| 14 | The enticement to covet is like the attraction of an enchanting perfume , one which turns out to be a delicious , attractive , sweet-tasting poison . |
| 15 | The Black Dog — Ken Downie , Ed Handley and Andy Turner — record all their sonic expeditions at the gothic-sounding Black Dog Towers , which turns out to be a terraced house in East London . |
| 16 | In the same fashion , if the witch-doctor offers advice which turns out to be wrong , you write him off as a quack and change your doctor . |
| 17 | Although the analysis focuses on social class , other variables relating to the housewife 's own education and previous ( or present ) employment are also examined : in some cases it is these factors rather than social class itself which turns out to be important . |
| 18 | It finishes just short of the summit with a superb rock pitch that looks hard from below but which turns out to be slabs at a comfortable angle , full of deep cracks . |
| 19 | Therefore — except for an occasional mutated child which turns out to be plainly of the wrong metal for its caste — ranks must remain separate . |
| 20 | Meriel Oliver , the articulate and lively-minded wife of the Archdeacon of Sherborne , runs the Mother 's Union for the diocese , which turns out to be not a quaint pre- war knitting bee , but a widespread and effective support group for troubled diocesan families . |
| 21 | A possible alternative theory is that the committee , the responsible government department and the parliamentary draftsmen all thought that section 15 ( clause 12 ) was needed , which turns out to be a mistaken view when section 1 is properly understood . |
| 22 | But this means that , from time to time , the student will pursue hunches which lead nowhere , or adopt a method of analysis which turns out to be unfruitful . |
| 23 | He will not be called up , owing to his dicky heart ( which I have never truly believed in until now , but which turns out to be genuine ) . |
| 24 | For example that of Joe and Biddy which turns out to be a very happy , contented marriage reflecting around home life and this marriage depriving Pip of the chance to propose to Biddy though I think that she would have refused on the grounds that he was still in love with Estella . |
| 25 | I got the impression that chiropractice — which turns out to be spinal manipulation — is n't a money spinner in this part of the world . |
| 26 | The upward slope of the function reflects the response of firms to an actual value for p which turns out to be greater or less than they had expected at the end of t - 1 . |
| 27 | The equations of motion are used to investigate the sign of σ ( which turns out to be always real ) . |
| 28 | Then , after the inquest , nothing more , until I notice a slip of paper projecting from the book much further on , which turns out to be another of Mrs Tamm 's silent helpfulnesses . |
| 29 | I could n't help noticing that they spent all their off-duty time racing down to London to what they called ‘ a sitting ’ , which tuned out to be another name for a seance . |
| 30 | For example , in the fastest city of them all — which turned out to be Boston , not New York , which was third after Buffalo — the researchers noted that to get the exact time of day the telephone company requires you to dial N-E-R-V-O-U-S . |