Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish . |
| 3 | By contrast , particular skills tend only to be identified by those who have specialized by method of intervention ( for example , marital counselling ) or by client sub-group ( for example , fostering and adoption ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 6 | The choice of courts has yet to be determined . |
| 7 | Alternatively there are several chemical additives on the market which aim to provide a substitute for lead , although the case for these products has yet to be proved . |
| 8 | Thus authors who are highly regarded by their peers tend also to be those who publish frequently , and whose papers are highly cited . |
| 9 | Thus authors who are highly regarded by their peers tend also to be those who publish frequently , and whose papers are highly cited . |
| 10 | People who are good at seeing the figure ground relationships in pictures tend also to be good at sentence-completion exercises , word analogies , problem solving , and so on . |
| 11 | Thus , on closer inspection , the issue of the ‘ underachievement ’ of black pupils in British schools turns out to be rather complex . |
| 12 | If it is agreed that project work has a great deal to offer in terms of developing reading , but recognised that these opportunities tend not to be exploited to the full , it is necessary to examine ways in which project work can be designed to make fuller use of its potential . |
| 13 | I 've heard that Chinese carrots tend not to be as reliable as some Eastern European ones … |
| 14 | The history of many localities and of most schools has still to be written , however , and a search in the library may often prove disappointing . |
| 15 | A decision on whether to offer seatbelt pre-tensioners as an option on UK cars has yet to be taken . |
| 16 | Most of the shops seemed already to be closed and her heart sank as she identified the unlit frontage of number seventeen . |
| 17 | Carbery looked at him warily , his eyes pleading not to be involved in such dangerous speculation , and shook his head slowly without speaking . |
| 18 | In the event , these anomalies turned out to be due to radioactivity ; but the point is that conservation principles are not readily falsifiable . |
| 19 | Of course , in retrospect , the decision to close down Ryde and Sandown and the cost of the new offices turned out to be a major contributory factor to the problems that we now find ourselves in . |
| 20 | ‘ The fact that Lombroso 's stigmata turned out to be no more common among criminals than among any other section of the community ( see Wolfgang , 1960 ) , although often thought to be a refutation of his theory , is in fact not crucial to it . |
| 21 | No , it is all due to the faithful old Sun going through it usual cycle of activity and the so called dragons turn out to be early sightings of aurorae . |
| 22 | In 1238 he ordered the Charter of the forest to be read out in full county court , and the concessions contained therein to be observed ; but he was careful to add the proviso that ‘ if any dispute or doubt arise regarding the articles of the Charter ’ the Chief Justice of the Forest was to ‘ seek the counsel of the King and his Court before anything be done in regard thereto ’ . |
| 23 | A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists ; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious , corrupt , cynical and generally ‘ nauseating … these saintly people , living off the fat of the land , try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal ! ’ |
| 24 | It seems to me that this passage describes the way loving relationships turn out to be for Hegel . |
| 25 | Traders do well to be careful in describing their merchandise for the section may catch not just the deliberate liar but also the honest trader who carelessly misdescribes his goods . |
| 26 | With the drying floors removed , the brickwork of the roundels proved not to be very strong and it was necessary to span the circular spaces with timber beams before the new upper floor was installed . |
| 27 | Of course , such potent compounds had still to be assessed in animals , before they could be used in patients . |
| 28 | His assassination was predictable , although how the murderer passed by the android security guards had yet to be explained . |
| 29 | When either 2 or 6 words had also to be held in memory then reaction times for both hemispheres improved but more so for the left hemisphere than for the right hemisphere , leading to a RVF superiority . |
| 30 | Although lacking a formal programme , Fujimori had rejected " shock " adjustments at a time when he claimed that the buying power of the majority of people had been halved over the previous year and that the needs of the poorest sectors had still to be met . |