Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [be] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He faxes me , not to own up to being Clark Kent , but to draw attention to the fact that he is giving his surplus Y-fronts to Mary Loudon ( author of Nuns Unveiled , Chatto it says here ) for onward transmission to the homeless . |
| 2 | It turned out to be Terry Wade who had just heard that Trev Proby had been arrested on a number of theft and extortion charges , and had been refused bail . |
| 3 | It turned out to be Manning Jackson 's home . ’ |
| 4 | The man turned out to be Alan Stewart , the comedian , who managed to force a smile as Roy apologised . |
| 5 | The 1991 season may turn out to be Jon Solly 's last serious crack at the 10,000m , but he is confident that he can get as far as Tokyo for the World Championships . |
| 6 | The woman turned out to be Lady Claire Rendlesham , director of Yves Saint Laurent in London . |
| 7 | Finchingfield had turned out to be Lady Danby 's nephew , which , Theda decided cynically , explained that lady 's change of face . |
| 8 | Just as the record was going to be released , Dave came round and told us he 'd got another manager for us and it turned out to be Ralph Horton who we 'd auditioned for at The Roebuck Pub in Tottenham Court Road . |
| 9 | The book turns out to be Mrs Whitehouse 's newly published volume , Cleaning-up TV . |
| 10 | It turned out to be Mrs Taylor . |
| 11 | And one more coming up , let's take it from the bottom of the pile , literally , and it turns out to be Mrs Diane , Street , Market Harborough . |
| 12 | Sir Eric and Lady Paignton were there , a kindly , elderly couple , who lived on the other side of the village , and one or two people from Clyst St George ; and a fat , over-dressed little woman who turned out to be Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple . |
| 13 | That left the third , who turned out to be Mrs Totteridge 's Father Topstock . |
| 14 | The claim that his fiscal precautions netted the Birt household just £810 in 1990-91 , for example , might be opened to question if the mystery secretary turned out to be Mrs Birt . |
| 15 | He accepted a glass from a black waiter and a kiss from a white puff-ball who turned out to be Camilla Welmsley . |
| 16 | He emerged amongst the Egyptian heavyweights and saw , between two huge stone legs , something rapid and white and golden that turned out to be Fergus Wolff , also heading for coffee . |
| 17 | A Vietnamese family , naively befriended by an American , turn out to be Viet Cong sympathisers , and a South Vietnamese general has to be bribed to release artillery support . |
| 18 | It turned out to be Douglas Hurd and Michael Heseltine , live from the campaign trail . |
| 19 | Robson tires of pointing out that England always have a spare man , but unfortunately this often turns out to be Gary Stevens , an orthodox full-back , perhaps incorrigibly so . |
| 20 | The man who offered this piece of advice turned out to be Lord Cole , who was chairman of Unilever at the time and went on to be chairman of Rolls-Royce and several other major companies . |
| 21 | The guest turns out to be Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly , " a very great doctor " , who in a role half-priestly and half-analytical reconciles Edward and Lavinia even though their marriage has already been described by him as that of |
| 22 | At the last minute the convention 's keynote speaker for Sunday 26 April was taken ill , and her replacement turned out to be Mr John Frohnmayer , the dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who , although not scheduled to leave his post officially until a few days later , had actually worked his last day the previous Friday . |
| 23 | The prince among the four ex-presidents turns out to be Jimmy Carter . |
| 24 | The two lucky gunslingers turned out to be Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons who narrowly beat a young lad from Manchester at the final cut . |
| 25 | And for Mrs Stephanie Pearson of , Coleville and one more coming out the bag and it turns out to be C Fletcher of , Chilwell . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The younger man smoking a cigarette , and whose ashtray was already half full , turned out to be Dieter Sims . |
| 28 | He was the kid who went back to be Frank Sinatra 's bar-tender in the vacation while the rest of us were toting Christmas mail for the Post Office . |