Example sentences of "turn [adv] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small government flat I had been expecting turned out instead to be a large if simple village haveli , occupied by Mr Postman 's extended family — his three brothers , their children and Mr Postman 's old mother . |
| 2 | This was a third form of government , after rule by gentlemen and rule by military discipline had turned out not to be very successful , and most Englishmen would have found it rather less usual than either of the earlier types of government . |
| 3 | Her chicken-pox had turned out not to be chicken-pox but an over-violent reaction to a takeaway pizza . |
| 4 | The true moral of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a moral of character and attitude not of precept ; and appropriately the Host responds by commenting on the Nun 's Priest as a character who has proved to be what the Monk has turned out not to be . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've already told me a great many things , an alarming number of which have turned out not to be true . |
| 6 | This was a sardonic reference to the distance which has sometimes separated Levein from selection by the national coach , though the idea of McQueen , last capped against Wales in 1981 , being recalled has turned out not to be so fanciful after all in the midst of the worst injury crisis of Roxburgh 's association with Scotland . |
| 7 | It was true that Ted Mosse had turned out not to be too honest , even in his best uniformed days , had run various little corruptions and been found out , but it did not seem the sort of bad behaviour that would have worried most of working-class South London . |
| 8 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 9 | The last night in Edinburgh we were approached by a man , a dubious-looking character who turned out soon to be of an unimaginably boring respectability . |
| 10 | Though Isaac turned out not to be God 's new Adam , it is possible to say that Joseph did . |
| 11 | Voters ' ’ intentions ’ registered by the polls turned out not to be real intentions . |
| 12 | I looked up the authentic sources ; the Comte de Horne turned out not to be an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; the marriage had been consummated and he had died of indigestion . |
| 13 | A couple of years ago , it seemed that the number of UK robot companies was about to mushroom , but the optimism turned out not to be justified . |
| 14 | But the Social Charter turned out not to be for the likes of us . |
| 15 | Of course it turned out not to be a Gainsborough , in spite of what Evans or Owens had said . |
| 16 | Sadly , it turned out not to be the forger played by the late Jack Haig , but a French war hero , Marshall Leclerc . |
| 17 | These boys , however , turned out not to be aggro leaders at all . |
| 18 | Leaders turned out not to be willing to give up sovereignty over ‘ low-level ’ political issues ; nor , when they did , were they thereby more inclined to integrate in ‘ high-level ’ politics . |
| 19 | In this case , it turned out not to be the theory at fault but the description of the initial conditions , which did not include a consideration of the yet-to-be-discovered planet Neptune . |
| 20 | The paperwork was so vast that in 1988 I had to add an entire floor in my house in Ireland to accommodate it , and that turned out not to be enough . |
| 21 | But I think John we should point out that it was , it was only unsuccessful because it turned out not to be a sewerage problem . |
| 22 | This may be because it was intended to be a quick method of banning undesirable consumer trade practices and in practice it turned out not to be very quick at all . |
| 23 | The working party 's report said that the overrun on that centre ’ generally reflected policy instructions that no additional cost should be involved but in specifics turned out not to be manageable ’ . |
| 24 | That turned out not to be so , as when South cashed the ace of diamonds at trick three down tumbled the king and jack , allowing declarer to take in total five diamond tricks , two heart tricks , and four spade tricks . |
| 25 | The fact that the tasks as used in Study 3 turned out not to be completely unrelated to risk does not necessarily compromise this result , it may simply reflect the fact that thinking about risk is an extremely natural thing to do in this type of situation . |
| 26 | " Some of the things we thought would be really big problems in 1987 turned out not to be " , said the plant 's environmental spokesman . |
| 27 | Now the major problem that came up the other day was that , I thought I had given you a very easy extract to translate into modern English , and it turned out not to be such an easy extract , obviously . |
| 28 | ‘ The job turned out not to be satisfactory and the waterproof membrane started to break up , ’ she said . |
| 29 | ‘ The job turned out not to be satisfactory and the waterproof membrane started to break up , ’ she said . |
| 30 | He said that under the present system , witnesses might give evidence on issues which turned out not to be in dispute — wasting court time . |