Example sentences of "[noun] turns [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This unusual experience turns out to be informative and fun . |
| 2 | A suitable plane at these parameter values turns out to be the plane , which includes C+ , and the return map obtained , for r-values just less than and just greater than , is shown schematically in Fig. 6.7 . |
| 3 | There are many new motorways not shown ; the detailed form of the roads is not reproduced faithfully ; and what is shown on the map to be an isolated settlement turns out to be hardly any bigger than the many other settlements you can see . |
| 4 | The disruptive rhetorical structure in this case turns out to be the undecidability between inside and outside worlds within the figure of metaphor . |
| 5 | The knumdrum where the people have gone has now been answered because the amount of domiciliary care needed to keep them out of residential places to meet their needs and wishes turns out to be very much less than we expected , on average less than seven hours a week . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He crushed them up But this powder turns out to be Soneryl . ’ |
| 8 | The ark turns out to be decidedly too hot to handle . |
| 9 | The difficulty is that , however strong in outline , the characterization turns out to be weak in detail . |
| 10 | It should therefore be of little surprise if the expenditure on inner city regeneration turns out to be a risible fraction of that necessary to have a major impact on the level of urban immiseration as long as it can still produce the sort of photogenic spectacle so clearly embodied in Birmingham 's super-prix or Phoenix 's grand prix , Boston and New York 's marathons or Liverpool 's Tall Ships Race . |
| 11 | Since this second sufficient condition turns out to be of some importance , it might be useful to have an intuitive idea of what is involved . |
| 12 | They 've had some important and notable cup victories here in their time have Shrewsbury Town , but none can have been as dramatic as this match , whatever the final result turns out to be . |
| 13 | But the notion of an instrument turns out to be as empty as his posturing . |
| 14 | Attention in these films , like in realist films , is called to the referent , only the referent turns out to be , like the ear or the flowers in Blue Velvet and the imaged and real automobiles in Jules 's living quarters in Diva , a set of false , glossy , or monstrous signifiers . |
| 15 | Tomas turns out to be sexually as well as politically opportunistic , resulting in vengeance , desperation and a lot of emotional broken glass . |
| 16 | ‘ Let's just say , Mr Newman , that in so many murder enquiries the culprit turns out to be the person who discovered the body . |
| 17 | Thus , on closer inspection , the issue of the ‘ underachievement ’ of black pupils in British schools turns out to be rather complex . |
| 18 | Sometimes , the model or theory being examined leads into a blind alley or the methodology turns out to be faulty , and the researcher feels as if the effort involved was worthless . |
| 19 | which is about the future and about as accurate as any forecasting of the future turns out to be , a robot agitator is formed in the shape of a young woman . |
| 20 | Recent ethnography of writing has demonstrated that the same is true for many contemporary societies now labelled ‘ literate ’ ; much of the practice turns out to be , as in Iran ( see below , Section 2 ) , writing names on crates of produce , keeping records of business transactions , writing cheques etc. , or , as in English factories , reading warning or instruction labels , one-word sign symbols and signing names or filling in forms ( see Section 3 ) . |
| 21 | Although it is fashionable to talk about its value ‘ for its own sake ’ , what prompts the theorising is the strong and well-founded belief that the experiences of childhood affect the kind of adult which the child turns out to be . |
| 22 | Electromagnetic radiation oscillating v times a second turns out to be made up of a whole number of packets of energy , each of amount unc where h is Planck 's celebrated constant . |
| 23 | These difficulties may arise especially when the program in question turns out to be more useful and successful than the parties originally envisaged . |
| 24 | Here we do indeed find an example of a ‘ liquidation ’ of history which , it will be recalled , is exactly the accusation that Terry Eagleton makes against poststructuralism ; but the actual example in Bachelard demonstrates how much more complex the issue turns out to be . |
| 25 | The strident claims of the manufacturer — MSD — are supported by two references : of these one is quoted no less than four times , but on reading the small print this reference turns out to be ‘ data on file Merck , Sharp and Dohme Ltd ’ — hardly the most impartial of sources . |
| 26 | But if marriage turns out to be less than satisfactory in the arena of personal fulfilment , this is not only for the marriage partners . |
| 27 | The journey , however , proves to be a descent into hell , for Comala turns out to be a ghost town which has been devastated by the oppression of his father , the tyrannical landowner Pedro Páramo , and whose few remaining inhabitants live in despair , convinced that they have been banished forever from the grace of God . |
| 28 | In Leeds a professional burglar turns out to be just 13 , with a record stretching back to when he was seven . |
| 29 | Perhaps most compelling of all , an Agency dedicated to ultra-patriotism turns out to be a ruthless engine of internal subversion . |
| 30 | 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 . |