Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a piece where every idea is disposable , very little turns out to be memorable . |
| 2 | That turns out to be very nice for finding targets . ’ |
| 3 | That turns out to be a half-dead pigeon . |
| 4 | The cause of death will now be established by a home office pathologist : Friends of the dead woman say she doted on her two young children and was n't the sort of person to have contemplated suicide — the pathologist 's report will show whether or not that turns out to be true . |
| 5 | If that turns out to be the case , Chalmers hopes to be back in action before the end of the season , and that would certainly lead to a standby spot . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | But this turns out to be subject to ‘ the following provisions of [ the ] section and to sections 42 and 43 ’ . |
| 8 | This turns out to be much the same as looking at ratios of odds , but avoids cumbersome multiplicative arithmetic . |
| 9 | Compared to their last visit to the UK and the big Astoria show — which was OK , but felt overlong — this turns out to be a near-perfect delivery of their contrasting semi-dumb music and ultra-sharp attitude . |
| 10 | When examined closely , this turns out to be a half-truth , and as with many half-truths , exploring the point at which it breaks down can be instructive . |
| 11 | This turns out to be smart thinking in a way because when I get to Cop Central they promptly arrest me . |
| 12 | This turns out to be about 21.5 per cent of embedded overflow areas . |
| 13 | This turns out to be a special case of the BKZ equation but gives an explicit form for the memory kernel with the dependence of the rheological parameters on molecular weight and concentration . |
| 14 | On closer examination , however , most of this turns out to be the product , not of reasoned consideration and reflection , but merely of some political manoeuvre or party attitude . |
| 15 | Well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble , and Branson has expanded Virgin into a world recovery , or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade , and it either contracts or it sells out to either an American or a continental European carrier . |
| 16 | This turns out to be in my opinion one of the funniest episodes in the novel . |
| 17 | This turns out to be rather fortunate , as from the embassy is coming to Nanking to see the Brit . |
| 18 | What is interesting is that the actual deficits of 1971 and 1972 turned out to be over twice the planned deficits for those years and the actual deficit of 1975 three times the projected deficit for that year . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This turned out to be an object lesson in how to lay waste to an Indian Restaurant . |
| 21 | This turned out to be , first , Manchester 's and , subsequently , London 's gain . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This turned out to be a male stripper club ( ‘ Not naked ! ’ said one matron , with Mid-Western propriety ) . |
| 24 | This turned out to be a reference to the secrecy surrounding the use of Ossie Wheatley 's power of veto as chairman of the cricket committee to block the reappointment of Mike Gatting rather than David Gower as England captain last summer . |
| 25 | This turned out to be a reference to the secrecy surrounding the use of Ossie Wheatley 's power of veto as chairman of the cricket committee to block the reappointment of Mike Gatting rather than David Gower as England captain last summer . |
| 26 | This turned out to be a list of policy options from which Mr Bush was to choose — with luck in time to unveil a complete plan in his ‘ state of the union ’ message on January 29th . |
| 27 | Unfortunately this turned out to be a wasted effort , as the closure of Arkwright Colliery was announced soon after the first train had used the spur . |
| 28 | This turned out to be pottery waste , a surviving memorial to a now vanished china factory in the local town . |
| 29 | Alas , this turned out to be much more difficult . |
| 30 | This turned out to be so popular that production was taken over by the English parent company , leaving the colonial off-shoot to resume its original project . |