Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
| 2 | For Pat junior has grown up to be a hunky , muscular , six foot two . |
| 3 | He takes over from Alloa-based Derek Allison who has moved on to be British national coach . |
| 4 | The same has turned out to be true of show-jumping , a little-known landed pursuit before it was taken up by the BBC as a sport which might appeal to women , especially when Pat Smythe rode Flanagan to four European Championship victories between 1957 and 1963 . |
| 5 | Nigel Martyn , the goalkeeper he bought from Bristol Rovers for £1 million , has turned out to be a snip , his acrobatics saving the day when United penetrated Palace 's back four , newly shored up by the strapping Andy Thorn . |
| 6 | Mr Kaifu has turned out to be more of a winner than a cipher . |
| 7 | IN THE words of the Gaullist leader , Jacques Chirac , France 's eagerly awaited new government has turned out to be the former Rocard government minus Michel Rocard . |
| 8 | What might have seemed a revelation of God 's extraordinary generosity has turned out to be another expression of his terrible anger . |
| 9 | There have been some exceptions ( again , perhaps because insufficient phase-one training was given ) ( Arnoult 1953 ; McAllister 1953 ; McCormack 1958 ) but for the most part the test performance of control subjects has turned out to be inferior to that of subjects pre-trained with the relevant stimuli ( G. Cantor 1955 ; J. Cantor 1955 ; Cantor and Hottel 1957 ; Smith and Means 1961 ; Hendrickson and Muehl 1962 ) . |
| 10 | And the risk has turned out to be a disaster . |
| 11 | Her style of government has turned out to be a marvellous make-work scheme for political scientists , contemporary historians and political commentators . |
| 12 | The reality has turned out to be somewhat more prosaic . |
| 13 | She took her doctorate in the study of the UFO movement itself , and has worked with several British researchers on what has turned out to be an illuminating project . |
| 14 | The best way to test the inequality experimentally has turned out to be to measure the correlation in the polarisation of pairs of photons emitted in certain electron transitions in atoms of calcium and mercury . |
| 15 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
| 16 | Laissez-faire transport planning has turned out to be anti-bike and pro-car in the urban context . |
| 17 | Hahnemann 's conception of disease being due to a combination of intrinsic ( inherited ) and extrinsic ( environmental ) factors has turned out to be largely correct . |
| 18 | What a crackingly effective policy recognition has turned out to be . |
| 19 | In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents , it has turned out to be an Annus Horribilis . |
| 20 | PLEASURE DOMES IN THE BUNKER Putting their money where the boom beckoned has turned out to be a major handicap for several super-golf-course developers |
| 21 | But unfortunately , Gatt has turned out to be all or nothing . |
| 22 | ‘ But Ivy has turned out to be so good for me I must have done the right thing . |
| 23 | AN INDIAN restaurant taking part in The Sun 's free curry offer has turned out to be a right poppadump . |
| 24 | An eighteenth-century black-chalk drawing of a woman looking at a portrait miniature , annotated with extensive notes about fabrics and colours , catalogued by Sotheby 's New York as by the ‘ Circle of Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigee LeBrun ’ in their Old Master drawings sale of 13 January , has turned out to be an exceedingly rare study by this artist . |
| 25 | This , as it happens , has turned out to be fortunate , because her brother is now one of the many public figures in Italy under investigation for corruption . |
| 26 | that my work has turned out to be medically relevant , but it might not have done , and that would n't have meant that it was useless or wasted . |
| 27 | The baby was in the Rena for four weeks at two guineas a week … the bill amounted to £16.12s.10d. and so you see , with all these expenses , the cost of having a baby has turned out to be very great , and now there are of course the funeral fees . ’ |
| 28 | The Appeal Court 's rejection of an order banning an abusing father from the family home has turned out to be the most controversial decision under the Children Act since its introduction . |
| 29 | Organised jointly by EurOpen and UniForum , OpenForum ‘ 92 has turned out to be a successor to the old European Unix User Group ( EUUG ) conferences of the past , with a high proportion of technical attendees . |
| 30 | Logix ‘ 92 , cast as a spring-time showpiece for Logitek Distribution Ltd 's Unix reseller initiative , has turned out to be something of a damp squib for the Slough , Berkshire-based outfit . |