Example sentences of "[adv] turn out to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 2 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 3 | These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time . |
| 4 | Then , while the right hand wrote on , it conjured up the pack of cigarettes once again , conjured one out , and conjured a flame out of a butane lighter it suddenly turned out to be holding . |
| 5 | The long line of leading Conservatives on the platform fixed their faces into expressions of interested concern , and prepared themselves for what could only turn out to be a surfeit of oratory . |
| 6 | Instead of acquiring fairly smoothly a bigger version of the cosy old federal republic , with its powerful economy and low political profile , they have inherited an unknown country packed with problems and with people who have mostly turned out to be German-speaking strangers . |
| 7 | I can therefore gladly admit that falsificationists like myself much prefer an attempt to solve an interesting problem by a bold conjecture , even ( and especially ) if it soon turns out to be false , to any recital of a sequence of irrelevant truisms . |
| 8 | ‘ Mass medium ’ thus turns out to be one of those terms , apparently simple , that grow more elusive upon analysis . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , even this has not turned out to be so simple . |
| 11 | Parental attitudes , like early physical-care practices , have not turned out to be the clear-cut determinants of personality development one had hoped for . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Norman Stone 's confident his reputation wo n't be dented like that of Lord Dacre , the Oxford historian who helped the Sunday Times serialise what he thought were the Hitler diaries but soon turned out to be a hoax . |
| 13 | The Hasteds no doubt did what they could to help their bereaved sister , though their best turned out to be insufficient to save her as time went by . |
| 14 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 15 | My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’ |
| 16 | Somehow this tea was not turning out to be the delightful social event she had hoped for , full of contented tittle-tattle and scornful criticism of all who were not Scottish and United Church . |
| 17 | Rupert Murdoch 's company is not turning out to be all the hype suggested it would . |
| 18 | It was not turning out to be the kind of summer she had intended . |
| 19 | The spending targets in the White Paper thus turn out to be unhelpful for long-term planning purposes . |
| 20 | We must try to ensure that , as a result of our own genetic manipulation , they do not turn out to be unpleasant surprises . |
| 21 | THIS MAY or may not turn out to be the winter when serious numbers of British skiiers forsake the Alps for the Rockies . |
| 22 | ‘ Opinion polls may or may not turn out to be right at a later stage ’ ; ‘ Local authorities exceeded projected expenditure by quite a margin ’ ; ‘ When this campaign started some weeks ago ’ ; ‘ I concede the point , for I have stated it many times in the past . ’ |
| 23 | However , this did not turn out to be such a cheap solution in the long run , since it set up conditions of even greater instability , necessitating repeated operations every two years.5 Major work on the river Taff and the river Usk in South Wales , carried out in the early 1980s , has precipitated extensive and unforeseen repair bills . |
| 24 | If , as seems probable , most teachers will sort out their pupils into the high and the low fliers at a fairly early stage , and if there is a whole separate set of papers in some subjects for the high and the low , then the difference between the higher grades of GCSE and O levels will not turn out to be very great . |
| 25 | Imposing English at all levels of the education system may not turn out to be either practical or appropriate . |
| 26 | If the hypnotist does not turn out to be as trustworthy as expected , this can be extremely dangerous . |
| 27 | However , because it is very difficult in practice to evaluate the integrals which this method involves , this does not turn out to be a convenient method for obtaining explicit solutions . |
| 28 | The particular decomposition ( 10.8 ) , however , does not turn out to be particularly convenient in the construction of explicit solutions . |
| 29 | Too often retired people will say that retirement did not turn out to be as they had expected . |
| 30 | This may not turn out to be so easy . |