Example sentences of "out [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 32 | This may be because it was intended to be a quick method of banning undesirable consumer trade practices and in practice it turned out not to be very quick at all . |
| 33 | Indeed the object of literary science turns out not to be an object at all , but a set of differences , and the science will consist in ‘ the study of those specifics which distinguish it [ i.e. literature ] from any other material ’ ( Eikhenbaum 1965 : 107 ) . |
| 34 | ‘ Becoming Mrs Ace Barton might turn out not to be quite as exciting as you think . |
| 35 | So far it may have appeared that the condition in section 12 will be broken only if the seller turns out not to be the owner , anything less serious being merely a breach of one of the warranties . |
| 36 | The working party 's report said that the overrun on that centre ’ generally reflected policy instructions that no additional cost should be involved but in specifics turned out not to be manageable ’ . |
| 37 | That turned out not to be so , as when South cashed the ace of diamonds at trick three down tumbled the king and jack , allowing declarer to take in total five diamond tricks , two heart tricks , and four spade tricks . |
| 38 | The fact that the tasks as used in Study 3 turned out not to be completely unrelated to risk does not necessarily compromise this result , it may simply reflect the fact that thinking about risk is an extremely natural thing to do in this type of situation . |
| 39 | It may even be , if the young people involved broadly adopt the ‘ parent ’ culture , that they turn out not to be imperatives at all . |
| 40 | The true moral of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a moral of character and attitude not of precept ; and appropriately the Host responds by commenting on the Nun 's Priest as a character who has proved to be what the Monk has turned out not to be . |
| 41 | On the very exceptional occasions when only two instruments of a kind are mentioned in livrets , these turn out not to be part of a mixed ensemble , but some kind of special effect . |
| 42 | " Some of the things we thought would be really big problems in 1987 turned out not to be " , said the plant 's environmental spokesman . |
| 43 | Equally there is always something grammatical about delirium ; the nonsense-languages of the mad turn out not to be a merely random collocation of sounds . |
| 44 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 45 | ‘ You 've already told me a great many things , an alarming number of which have turned out not to be true . |
| 46 | One woman has brought the blunt ended equivalent of a shooting stick , which turns out not to be needed . |
| 47 | It turns out not to be a wheeze , it is instead an honest , responsible approach by well-meaning people to a longstanding problem which has caused severe damage to the ozone layer . |
| 48 | ‘ The job turned out not to be satisfactory and the waterproof membrane started to break up , ’ she said . |
| 49 | ‘ The job turned out not to be satisfactory and the waterproof membrane started to break up , ’ she said . |
| 50 | He said that under the present system , witnesses might give evidence on issues which turned out not to be in dispute — wasting court time . |
| 51 | He also criticised the fact that under the present system witnesses might give evidence on issues which turned out not to be in dispute , thus wasting further time . |
| 52 | Author and DJ Charlie Gillett reckoned Brenda 's vocal style was more influenced by R&B singers like Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker than by country artists , but this turns out not to be the case . |
| 53 | This was a sardonic reference to the distance which has sometimes separated Levein from selection by the national coach , though the idea of McQueen , last capped against Wales in 1981 , being recalled has turned out not to be so fanciful after all in the midst of the worst injury crisis of Roxburgh 's association with Scotland . |
| 54 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 55 | It was true that Ted Mosse had turned out not to be too honest , even in his best uniformed days , had run various little corruptions and been found out , but it did not seem the sort of bad behaviour that would have worried most of working-class South London . |
| 56 | They turned out not to be elementary at all , they are complex things . |
| 57 | But the reality of Jules 's living quarters turns out already to be a set of images , i.e. a disused garage , in which pop art rubs shoulders with wrecked 1950s autos on the model of those in Nicholas Ray 's Rebel Without a Cause . |
| 58 | The last night in Edinburgh we were approached by a man , a dubious-looking character who turned out soon to be of an unimaginably boring respectability . |
| 59 | If a particular financial advisor uses the system to recommend an investment to a client , the advisor will not be negligent if the system was used in a reasonable and satisfactory manner , even if the advice turns out retrospectively to be bad . |
| 60 | From another article we learn that Giuseppe Valadier 's silver service made in 1801–1803 for Palazzo Pallavicini in Rome turns out still to be there . |