Example sentences of "who [adv] [verb] [adv prt] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting thing about him is that he was one of those people who always turn out to be lucky no matter what they do . |
| 2 | Two girls , who both turned out to be called Fiona , were still unpacking the stock . |
| 3 | The afternoon in question was spent in a painful attempt ( wholly unsuccessful ) to keep up with a young woman who later turned out to be a champion rider with a European reputation . |
| 4 | Despite the effects of the drink he paused to listen at another of the meetings , heard a testimony from a young man who later turned out to be Ella 's brother , and was converted . |
| 5 | During busier days they brought companies to the unlisted securities market but required owners to sell only 15 p.c. of their shares to outsiders — who often turned out to be long-term holders lined up in advance by the issue 's brokers . |
| 6 | ‘ But not to a midget who 's just eaten my lunch and whom I 've subsequently insulted , who then turns out to be one of the world 's top dress designers . |
| 7 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 8 | Provoked by abrupt intimacy with a complete stranger who then turned out to be someone she was forced to spend time with , forced to establish a formal business relationship with … ? |
| 9 | Burke falls for Sillas and loses interest in locating father which upsets Sage , he wanders off on his own and runs across young Romanian epileptic Elina ( Elina Lowensohn ) who bizarrely turns out to be pater 's juvenile mistress . |