Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Stan was older and previously dominant , by virtue of being the only dog , he had not turned out to be the natural leader of he pair . |
| 2 | Parental attitudes , like early physical-care practices , have not turned out to be the clear-cut determinants of personality development one had hoped for . |
| 3 | Somehow this tea was not turning out to be the delightful social event she had hoped for , full of contented tittle-tattle and scornful criticism of all who were not Scottish and United Church . |
| 4 | It was not turning out to be the kind of summer she had intended . |
| 5 | THIS MAY or may not turn out to be the winter when serious numbers of British skiiers forsake the Alps for the Rockies . |
| 6 | Meanwhile for Carol 's pupils , the course fee may just turn out to be the best £7.50 their parents ever spent . |
| 7 | By an incredible coincidence , the day in 1986 when Simon proposed to Hilary also turned out to be the day he got his breakthrough with Radio One . |
| 8 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 9 | ‘ If I came back and trained and lived here again I would probably go back to being the blue-eyed boy . |
| 10 | As will also turn out to be the case , given the definition of the physical to which we shall come , they are all of them physical . |
| 11 | Strange how what you regard at the time as being your downfall , often turns out to be the making of you . |
| 12 | Even where the media report sightings of what are apparently other phenomena , they often turn out to be the same species . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm relieved to see slow-dancing with me has n't turned out to be the traumatic experience you obviously feared . ’ |
| 14 | On Wednesday , Paddy Ashdown played the tough talker , the straight man who wo n't soften the harsh realities — though those realities immediately turn out to be the same smooth bribes offered by every other politician . |
| 15 | Erm which did n't turn out to be the case . |
| 16 | Perhaps he wo n't turn out to be the British Jean Renoir of a Glaswegian Woody Allen . |
| 17 | Hopefully the evening would n't turn out to be the disaster she 'd envisaged . |
| 18 | As companies that do fall victim to computer crime prefer to deal with the problem internally , personnel security may well turn out to be the most vital component in a firm 's defences . |
| 19 | Improvements in this area may well turn out to be the most difficult to achieve . |
| 20 | Your very first field landing could even turn out to be the most difficult field of your whole gliding career . |
| 21 | The right person sometimes turns out to be the wrong kind of person . |
| 22 | Their decision made no sense because , at the end of the day , no solution could be evolved with which she did not agree — as indeed turned out to be the case . |
| 23 | In any case , with the dismissal of the ecologist Jose Lutzenberger as Minister of Environment just before the summit and with the hesitations of George Bush over the electoral advantage to him of appearing here , it seems that the Earth Summit may not quite turn out to be the intended PR success for the western approach to planetary salvation . |