Example sentences of "turn [adv] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus whenever goods turn out to be unsatisfactory , they immediately attack the seller with the complaint that they are unfit for purpose . |
| 2 | These morons set up meaningless polls , people like me tell them that they 're meaningless , and then , when they turn out to be meaningless , they cry ‘ Amazing triumph for the Tories ! |
| 3 | Christmas shoppers are being warned to steer clear of seasonal bargains which turn out to be clever fakes . |
| 4 | Few excuses turn out to be genuine . |
| 5 | They fall into three groups : ( 1 ) eight working-class women who say initially that they ‘ like ’ or ‘ do n't mind ’ housework , but turn out to be dissatisfied with it ; ( 2 ) two middle-class women who follow the same pattern ; and ( 3 ) two middle-class women who say they dislike housework but are satisfied with it . |
| 6 | To my mind , evidence of conflict already exists : the deafening silence from Moorgate Place on Caparo is an example where self-interest has been allowed to be paramount : the decision suits the practising firms ( as their legal liability is narrowly defined ) , notwithstanding that in the public interest , would-be investors , existing individual shareholders and creditors who lose because they have relied on audited accounts which subsequently turn out to be defective , should , on any basis of equity , have recourse to those parties who are responsible , whether management or auditors . |
| 7 | The point here is that materials incorporated into buildings will be covered if they turn out to be defective ( s46(3) ) . |
| 8 | The existence of other gods who turn out to be mere ‘ pretenders ’ to divinity raises the question of what makes a god a God . |
| 9 | However , some computers ( such as the IBM 370 range ) have what are called logical comparison instructions , which turn out to be unsigned fixed-point binary comparisons . |
| 10 | In the case of more general or abstract essays ( on whole works , on authors or on critical issues ) , it is necessary to find other means of organising an argument — though some of the means also turn out to be applicable when looking at individual passages . |
| 11 | The trouble is that the traditions and symbols that embody and transmit these supposedly universal and perennial virtues usually turn out to be modern inventions ( Hobsbawm and Ranger , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | Most turn out to be experienced travellers , trumping Mongolia with Patagonia in competitive conversation over the dinner table . |
| 13 | Appropriately for a drama in which the grossest crimes , though intended , turn out to be apparent rather than real , her chaffing in riddles of Bertram and the King in the final scene is a marvellous mix of the pointedly cutting and the teasingly playful . |
| 14 | But you might ; even in this day and age some programs turn out to be complete dogs . |
| 15 | If these turn out to be major then it 's often better to re-scan the picture for the new dimensions than to mess about with the first version . |
| 16 | No , it is all due to the faithful old Sun going through it usual cycle of activity and the so called dragons turn out to be early sightings of aurorae . |
| 17 | If I decide on the toss of a coin which investment will provide the greatest yield , and fortunately turn out to be right , we suppose that my choice is vindicated by the outcome perhaps , but not justified by it ; I had no real justification for making the choice I did . |
| 18 | Even if they turn out to be right , some of them , they still have British Rail privatization , they still have VAT on fuel , they still have rising water charges , they still have the education wrangle . |
| 19 | Private worlds , whether they are families or voluntary societies , turn out to be delusory sources of personal freedom : disillusionment and hopelessness follow behind the many human philosophies and religious ideas that modern men and women discard as carelessly as consumer toys . |
| 20 | However , the second element must always be present : typically there are at least short-run gains from reneging on an agreement and so tacit collusion requires the perception that to do so would in the end turn out to be unprofitable because of punitive reactions by the other firms . |
| 21 | Why , then , do so many of the clearly creative new products fail to achieve their planned market share and , as a result , turn out to be unprofitable ? |
| 22 | A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists ; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious , corrupt , cynical and generally ‘ nauseating … these saintly people , living off the fat of the land , try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal ! ’ |
| 23 | But these findings turn out to be artefactual . |
| 24 | Shoes always turn out to be wrong for the climate . |
| 25 | Should one assume that the parties take notice in the original position of their own fallibility , and agree on constitutional arrangements that will be self-correcting if it turns out that the fundamental beliefs concerning human nature , on which their substantive principles of justice are based , turn out to be wrong , or not ? |
| 26 | But in the brave new world management and doctors are bound to make judgments about potential workload that turn out to be wrong . |
| 27 | But it is not unreasonable for the Vendor to repay any price paid by the Purchaser in respect of debts which turn out to be bad . |
| 28 | In the second phase Western practitioners try out their ideas in other cultures and many new insights emerge by comparisons and contrasts , in particular it becomes clear that some of the principles thought to be valid for ‘ man ’ turn out to be valid only for man in Western cultures . |
| 29 | If a percentage of those claims turn out to be valid , the process must be utterly fair . |
| 30 | This is the book 's third edition , but the first to be sponsored by Price Waterhouse , which seems appropriate , as a disproportionate number of the analysts recorded in it turn out to be chartered accountants . |