Example sentences of "turns [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work is described as a personal celebration of the mountains and landscapes of Nepal , but it turns out to be a pictorial account of six treks and climbs in the more popular areas of the country . |
| 2 | But masked first-person narrative turns out to be deflected stream of consciousness — ‘ He was not really afraid ’ will only transpose into ‘ I 'm not really afraid ’ flitting through his head as he passes the landlady 's open kitchen door — so that the past tense collapses into the present , and we find we have put our finger on something pertinent to the novel 's urgency and attack and ( to borrow Andrew Forge 's ugly but useful key-term for late Monet ) its frontality . |
| 3 | But the notion of an instrument turns out to be as empty as his posturing . |
| 4 | When this and the regeneration/resurrection theme are brought to bear upon the remark about Bazarov and the 1840s , what seemed a difference of degree turns out to be one of a kind . |
| 5 | Stepan Verkhovensky 's naked transcendental ‘ They wo n't let you ’ turns out to be a very suitable preface to a logical joke about time and identity . |
| 6 | In nine cases out of ten it turns out to be the office cleaner 's milkman 's financial adviser . |
| 7 | Prudently taking cognisance of onlookers also turns out to be important in the social behaviour of other primates . |
| 8 | Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry . |
| 9 | Three papers published recently in Science move us a little closer to understanding the basis of the disease , which turns out to be highly complex . |
| 10 | This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect . |
| 11 | But in a piece where every idea is disposable , very little turns out to be memorable . |
| 12 | The prince among the four ex-presidents turns out to be Jimmy Carter . |
| 13 | Robson tires of pointing out that England always have a spare man , but unfortunately this often turns out to be Gary Stevens , an orthodox full-back , perhaps incorrigibly so . |
| 14 | The vegetation turns out to be more sparse than we had imagined . |
| 15 | Or if there is , he turns out to be impossible to live with , ’ she says . |
| 16 | This unusual experience turns out to be informative and fun . |
| 17 | A lion which at the beginning of the book seems as though it might just be an escaped animal from a nearby zoo turns out to be the great Lion of Strength . |
| 18 | They are going to a planet celled Malecandra ( which turns out to be Mars ) and , having made a previous recce there , they are under the impression that the inhabitants are fierce and eat men . |
| 19 | For a number of shopaholics , however , that price turns out to be dizzyingly high — when shopping turns from a pleasure , or an occasional treat , into an uncontrollable obsession that chomps its way through the bank account , with sometimes disastrous effects . |
| 20 | The dreaded bank manager often turns out to be highly sympathetic , once a customer comes clean . |
| 21 | That turns out to be very nice for finding targets . ’ |
| 22 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 23 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 24 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 25 | A parcel from London recently landed on my desk with what turns out to be the best analysis of it , Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution by Professor R W Davies of Birmingham University 's Centre for Russian and East European Studies ( Macmillan , hardback £29.50 , paperback £7.99 ) . |
| 26 | But whether artificial intelligence turns out to be good enough for the movie makers is likely to be another matter . |
| 27 | This , however , turns out to be a polite fiction . |
| 28 | IF THE summer turns out to be hot , it will be a lot less work if you plant outdoor tomatoes in the ground rather than in growing bags . |
| 29 | ‘ If this turns out to be the lady we 're looking for , she was engaged to a Treasury Minister , who called in my guv'nor . ’ |
| 30 | And should an original and lovely ‘ Samuel Palmer ’ sketch or ‘ Vermeer ’ canvas be any less valued when it turns out to be by Tom Keating or Henricus van Meegaeren ? |