Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [prep] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only suggestion anyone has come up with is that what is special about 13 and 17 , as opposed to 14 , 15 and 16 , is that they are prime numbers . |
| 2 | You can imagine my relief now that it 's all over , and that it has turned out to be such a beautiful , conventional , dream wedding . |
| 3 | Mr Kaifu has turned out to be more of a winner than a cipher . |
| 4 | Curiously , in being less than art , the new ‘ cutting-edge ’ art has turned out to be more than art . |
| 5 | What might have seemed a revelation of God 's extraordinary generosity has turned out to be another expression of his terrible anger . |
| 6 | WHO would have thought that those Spandau Ballet boys would have turned out to be such fine thespians ? |
| 7 | Quite apart from the fact that if all the girls he 'd ever dumped had had a go back he might have grown up to be less of a bastard . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ People seem to think we are getting rid of all the books but the only ones we have done away with are those which had been hidden away unused for many years . ’ |