Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] turned [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it was probably inevitable that whatever the political flavour of the government of the day some form of national pattern of cash limits would have had to applied to expenditure on public sector higher education , 4 the practical effects of this political decision turned out to be both complex and capricious , and had two important consequences . |
| 2 | That fight turned out to be the fight of the century . |
| 3 | That figure turned out to be wrong : at least another 350 jobs have already been announced , involving no financial assistance . |
| 4 | This hope turned out to be mistaken , but this was because of a new feature of the situation which was barely visible in 1072 : the Hildebrandine vision of a unified administrative system of government under papal direction was the real enemy of the primacy , as we can see from the history of the next fifty years . |
| 5 | This decision turned out to be very significant . |
| 6 | But within months the recession arrived and what had originally been considered a financially sound decision turned out to be an economic disaster . |
| 7 | In the end , if this crime turned out to be something more than an abortive mugging , he would have a portrait of the victim and through that portrait some indication of why he had become one . |
| 8 | Although the Board of Trade had been notified that the company proposed to construct a depôt in torr Road , Penge , this site turned out to be on a section of route which it was no longer intended to construct , so another site had to be found . |
| 9 | One could try and explain this as follows : subjects perceived an increase in k as necessitating an increase in output since the opportunities for using output from other periods to increase sales this period had been reduced by the increase in the storage cost ; accordingly , one should produce more now in case the price this period turned out to be a high one . |
| 10 | A knock at the door this morning turned out to be a young girl in floods of tears , asking for me . |
| 11 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 12 | This invention turned out to be ahead of its time ; U-shaped grooves remained normal until 1939 , and Packman-type cutters only became universal after the Second World War . |
| 13 | This assumption turned out to be correct with regard to teachers ' attitudes towards the efficiency of the scheme , about which teachers in the northern schools are much more positive . |
| 14 | This suggestion turned out to be greatly to my own detriment . |
| 15 | All this effort turned out to be a total waste of time because , in the event , only a few bars of ‘ Music of the Night ’ wheezed from the instrument , and that so sotto voce that it could scarcely be heard . |
| 16 | However , the initial hunch that Belfast , like New York City , might show innovatory patterns of front raising of this vowel turned out to be wrong . |
| 17 | In view of the subsequent disputes over who thought of what and when , this notarisation turned out to be most prescient . |
| 18 | From the point of view of one committee member , York MP Hugh Bayley , this section turned out to be unexpectedly significant . |
| 19 | The real figure turned out to be £8.0 billion . |
| 20 | But the chief issue turned out to be reunion with the Greeks , required by Emperor John VIII Palaeologus for political reasons . |
| 21 | One which looked like a ringed plover but with a brown tinge to its less contrasty plumage turned out to be greater sand plover , which breeds on the desert plains of Mongolia . |
| 22 | John Leversedge from Haringey took an early lead and was a convincing winner in just over one hour nine minutes … second place turned out to be a battle all the way to the line … |
| 23 | A crucial distinction turned out to be whether the stimuli were presented only to one side of fixation at a time or simultaneously to both sides . |
| 24 | Our second day turned out to be the wettest and coldest . |
| 25 | I have always been careful to leave no stone unturned , ever since a time in Philadelphia when a particularly uncomfortable sofa turned out to be hiding a pair of magnificent George III sideboard dishes , subsequently sold for $66,000 . |
| 26 | Even if the actual cost turned out to be quite high , it might still appear better than the other paths for which we have high estimates , estimates which may be considerably greater than their actual cost . |
| 27 | That move turned out to be a mistake , though . |
| 28 | That chimney turned out to be the only delicate part of the building and scaffolding had to be erected so that it could be rebuilt . |
| 29 | Her supposed punisher turned out to be an effective reward . |
| 30 | The corner of the opposite wood turned out to be an acute point . |