Example sentences of "[Wh pn] turn [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least forty-eight loyalists were arrested , two of whom turned out to be full-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 2 | Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry . |
| 3 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 4 | A journey in a camper shades into a lift with a driver who turns out to be a narcotics agent ; the former episode is then repeated , with sado-masochistic variations , until that too shades into a bus journey . |
| 5 | They emigrate to Australia , and do not learn till long afterwards that Ham has died in a vain attempt to save a drowning man , who turns out to be Steerforth . |
| 6 | Perhaps not the literal truth ( it is unlikely that Jane Eyre , the unloved orphan , should come into a fortune and gain mastery over Rochester who was once her master or that Pip should be ‘ raised from his station ’ by a mysterious benefactor , who turns out to be Magwitch , the convict he once fed ) , but what Henry James called ‘ the truth of the imagination ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ High time someone started asking a few awkward questions , ’ says his neighbour , who turns out to be an expert in Moral Law . |
| 8 | But their home habits are violently interrupted by a male intruder , who turns out to be no more than a secret admirer of one of the sisters , writer ‘ Viola Ge ’ . |
| 9 | In murder mysteries , it is always the least suspicious person who turns out to be the killer . |
| 10 | If a person assaults another who turns out to be a policeman , he can he convicted of assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty even though he had no knowledge that the other was a policeman , or even the means of such knowledge . |
| 11 | Then he quite literally bumps into someone who turns out to be a very good friend indeed . |
| 12 | You might try it on with a girl in the park who turns out to be a policewoman in disguise . |
| 13 | The RUC sergeant went forward and arrested the man , who turned out to be the bank security guard who was rather the worse for drink , and had forgotten to lock the door ! |
| 14 | Jack and the vet ( who turned out to be an Irishman too ) drinking whiskey which they thought was brandy because I 'd put it into a brandy bottle … |
| 15 | In 1957 Fortune magazine published a list of America 's richest men , putting at the top the shy , reclusive , almost unknown J. Paul Getty , who turned out to be living in a modest room at the Ritz Hotel , London , conducting his world-wide oil business through the hotel switchboard with the minimum secretarial help . |
| 16 | In the Roman Catholic cathedral next door , I found a baffled couple from Pennsylvania , who turned out to be in the wrong cathedral . |
| 17 | Our tour manager was a quietly efficient , handsome lady , whose calm suggested those intrepid women who travelled these regions in the last century , and the lecturer was a young woman professor from Manchester University , who turned out to be an authority on mummification . |
| 18 | We were finally approached by a young man who turned out to be the club 's diving instructor . |
| 19 | After a cafeteria lunch that day with Jack Radford , Don Wilson and Jack Peach , I met the senior producer , James R. Finlay , who turned out to be friendly and helpful . |
| 20 | Hunchbacks and sea-horses — being captured by sailors who turned out to be octopuses — Dad with bloody hands , Mum drowning in mud … |
| 21 | Sir Eric and Lady Paignton were there , a kindly , elderly couple , who lived on the other side of the village , and one or two people from Clyst St George ; and a fat , over-dressed little woman who turned out to be Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple . |
| 22 | He accepted a glass from a black waiter and a kiss from a white puff-ball who turned out to be Camilla Welmsley . |
| 23 | ‘ My husband and I have never forgotten your Cordelia ; we saw it on our honeymoon , ’ said the young woman , who turned out to be the wife of an enthusiastic amateur producer of plays . |
| 24 | Among them a man who turned out to be an embalmer and whose advice and information were most useful . |
| 25 | Cuba has isolated people who turned out to be HIV positive . |
| 26 | The manifestations of Boltwood 's psychic powers started at the age of five when he talked to invisible people who turned out to be dead friends of his mother . |
| 27 | I smiled in answer to this , and started talking in French to a small , balding man who turned out to be Swiss and who was on the run from the customs in Geneva . |
| 28 | Later the same afternoon , seven of us were ordered over to the medical centre for a check up by the doctor , who turned out to be a medical student doing his military service . |
| 29 | Since he held by patent he could not be displaced and the work was executed by his deputy , Thomas Atkins , who turned out to be as dishonest and self-seeking as his principal . |
| 30 | But it was because Aaron said a mildly humorous comment about somebody in one of Whit 's photos who turned out to be one of Whit 's very good friends . |