Example sentences of "turned [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 2 | Unfortunately for Charles , the Director 's job turned out to be beyond his actually rather limited administrative abilities and , unable to assert himself in that field , he busied himself in the teaching side of things . |
| 3 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 4 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 5 | I assured myself that it would be only temporary and I would soon be in a flat again , but ‘ temporary ’ turned out to be five years . |
| 6 | The cafe turned out to be a strange garish world of sandy yellow . |
| 7 | My fellow residents turned out to be a chap in his late thirties who was trying to put his life back together after the death of his wife and various other things , and a chap of about my age who had also run into problems after his wife died . |
| 8 | He dismissed this as irrelevant and his use of metaphor , in what turned out to be an eighty-minute interview , was most revealing . |
| 9 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
| 10 | The temple ritual turned out to be of passing significance to Judaism . |
| 11 | He had give his name as E. Thomas Reardon and it turned out to be a pseudonym , so cheques left on the mantel were useless , and he must have known that they would be . |
| 12 | First , the murdered man : he turned out to be a student at the Petrine Agricultural Academy , and his name was Ivanov . |
| 13 | Certainly , when Yeats chaired the Irish Senate committee that commissioned the Irish coinage ( so wonderfully handsome as it turned out to be ) , it was photographs of Sicilian Greek coins that went out to prospective designers to show them what the committee had in mind . |
| 14 | On the other hand the material which Eliot had put into Pound 's hands turned out to be so inchoate that many readers were led to wonder how far the poem as they had it all these years was in any authentic sense Eliot 's at all . |
| 15 | One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar , but he turned out to be the roadie . |
| 16 | This turned out to be running an RAF section of the Secret Intelligence Service ; and it was as an SIS functionary that he criss-crossed Germany . |
| 17 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 18 | Two turned out to be genuine while two , according to the Cypriots , were fakes . |
| 19 | Despite the emetic title and glittering opening sequence , The Famous Teddy Z ( BBC 2 ) turned out to be in control of Hollywood glitz rather than in thrall to it . |
| 20 | This turned out to be an object lesson in how to lay waste to an Indian Restaurant . |
| 21 | For example , in the fastest city of them all — which turned out to be Boston , not New York , which was third after Buffalo — the researchers noted that to get the exact time of day the telephone company requires you to dial N-E-R-V-O-U-S . |
| 22 | This turned out to be , first , Manchester 's and , subsequently , London 's gain . |
| 23 | There is also speculation as to why Edwards initially accepted an offer of £10m , which subsequently turned out to be way below the market price . |
| 24 | But despite all the careful preparation , the birth turned out to be difficult and traumatic and Sophie was finally born with the help of forceps . |
| 25 | WITH all the youngsters now invading the tennis world , it was somewhat ironic , perhaps even worrying , that Chris Evert turned out to be the heroine of the 27th Federation Cup , in Tokyo , which ended yesterday with a predictable victory for the United States . |
| 26 | On closer inspection this turned out to be the L'Chaim Society , a Jewish good-time gang which presumably also has a stout approach to Judaism . |
| 27 | The woman turned out to be Lady Claire Rendlesham , director of Yves Saint Laurent in London . |
| 28 | Central reforms were eventually to adjust such discrepancies , but as with the tax changes , they turned out to be blunt bureaucratic instruments not sufficiently finely tuned to local needs . |
| 29 | We rested for a while at Bleaberry Tarn which turned out to be a wise move . |
| 30 | In fact , though , the new Chancellor turned out to be the emollient figure of Sir Geoffrey Howe , once a vaguely progressive Heathite minister too , but a notable convert to monetarism in the later 1970s . |