Example sentences of "out to [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had give his name as E. Thomas Reardon and it turned out to be a pseudonym , so cheques left on the mantel were useless , and he must have known that they would be . |
| 2 | turned out to be a turtle , |
| 3 | The door facing the entrance turned out to be a bathroom . |
| 4 | If the highest bidder turns out to be a scrap dealer , then it is to be hoped that an exchange can be effected between XH558 and one of the deteriorating examples of the type which are still fairly widely scattered within the UK . |
| 5 | Cable & Wireless , whose Mercury subsidiary yesterday heralded a phone war with the introduction of a new service for London , dipped 3p to 848p over fears that the new project might in fact turn out to be a drain on profits . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , he turned out to be a waster and dissipated his fortune before dying young . |
| 7 | He turned out to be a friend of the musicians and , within a year , she was launched on her disastrous marriage . |
| 8 | He wanted to be gone , even though Deuce made reassuring promises and Doug could one day turn out to be a friend . |
| 9 | Luckily , the Immigration Officer who chose me turned out to be a Sligo man ! |
| 10 | The long line of leading Conservatives on the platform fixed their faces into expressions of interested concern , and prepared themselves for what could only turn out to be a surfeit of oratory . |
| 11 | I bought myself a pint of shandy and something called a French Banger , which turned out to be a six-inch sausage served in a nine-inch piece of French bread . |
| 12 | He narrowly missed what he thought was a lamp post but turned out to be a tree , and reached for where the handle was usually to be found on a front door . |
| 13 | The Olympic final turned out to be a battle between Wells and the Cuban Silvio Leonard . |
| 14 | John Leversedge from Haringey took an early lead and was a convincing winner in just over one hour nine minutes … second place turned out to be a battle all the way to the line … |
| 15 | The race turned out to be a battle between Peter Scudamore on and Waterloo Boy , number thirteen . |
| 16 | So the idea of the student as an embryonic researcher turns out to be a metaphor referring , at its best , to just some of the activities employed by the student . |
| 17 | The afternoon in question was spent in a painful attempt ( wholly unsuccessful ) to keep up with a young woman who later turned out to be a champion rider with a European reputation . |
| 18 | In a town with a name so closely associated with horses , Clair hopes her idea will turn out to be a winner . |
| 19 | A shopping precinct in Great Baddow was evacuated on Saturday afternoon after Chelmsford police received a bomb call which turned out to be a hoax . |
| 20 | But feminism , far from letting her out of the trap , turned out to be a hoax . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Norman Stone 's confident his reputation wo n't be dented like that of Lord Dacre , the Oxford historian who helped the Sunday Times serialise what he thought were the Hitler diaries but soon turned out to be a hoax . |
| 22 | Worse , David Pascal , chairman of the NCC , turns out to be a devotee of that well-known rightie novelist Tom Clancy , who presumably never splits his infinitives since this , along with a desire to train schoolchildren not to say ‘ He done it ’ appears to be the main components of Mr Pascal 's plans for a more grammatical tomorrow . |
| 23 | When I was in Bremen not long ago for what turned out to be a Fluxus family meeting , I felt great affection from and for old friends like Daniel Spoerri and Emmett Williams , but also the younger artists associated with the exhibition were warm and welcoming . |
| 24 | The day before his TV appearance around Peter Sissons ' round table , Lilley was in the North-East for what turned out to be a dress rehearsal of his election strategy . |
| 25 | It was turning out to be a day unlike any other he had spent at Gibbet Hall . |
| 26 | Instead , it turned out to be a day of disaster . |
| 27 | It turned out to be a man shovelling sand off the road . |
| 28 | While Bourdieu 's self-deprecatory claims to priesthood and orthodoxy turn out to be a cover for a very avant-garde sociology of culture . |
| 29 | At this point a job that I had thought a burden , turned out to be a fairy godmother 's wand . |
| 30 | What he had taken to be a gate turned out to be a wall , the hump on the ground near by a heap of gravel and the massive bulk on the other side of the road a barn whose gable end still bore the faded icon of a helmeted Mussolini and the slogan ‘ It is important to win , but still more important to fight . ’ |