Example sentences of "[adv] turned [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , while the right hand wrote on , it conjured up the pack of cigarettes once again , conjured one out , and conjured a flame out of a butane lighter it suddenly turned out to be holding . |
| 2 | My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My uncle 's stories sounded unlikely , but they always turned out to be true . |
| 4 | Two girls , who both turned out to be called Fiona , were still unpacking the stock . |
| 5 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 6 | As France made her preparations for war , it was relatively simple for her to make an alliance with Austria against Prussia and it also turned out to be surprisingly easy to draw Russia into this alliance . |
| 7 | It also turned out to be Lynch 's last world championship fight . |
| 8 | The guide caused a bit of stir in Lakeland circles with the author 's comments on Paul Ross 's route Prodigal Son ( comments which later turned out to be misplaced ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Though believed to be fourth dynasty when it was shipped , it later turned out to be twenty-sixth dynasty : the portions of mummified body inside might , or equally might not , be those of Mycerinus . |
| 11 | Despite the effects of the drink he paused to listen at another of the meetings , heard a testimony from a young man who later turned out to be Ella 's brother , and was converted . |
| 12 | During busier days they brought companies to the unlisted securities market but required owners to sell only 15 p.c. of their shares to outsiders — who often turned out to be long-term holders lined up in advance by the issue 's brokers . |
| 13 | As with Ravel , the deception was usually in favour of the consumer , because it often turned out to be a famous and justly well-known artist using a different name for contractual reasons . |
| 14 | Not only had her real mother rejected her at birth and given her away , but worst of all , her adoptive father whom she had loved so much now turned out to be her real father , a cheat and a deceiver . |
| 15 | There was no need for life to be complicated , yet it invariably turned out to be so . |
| 16 | She managed to disengage herself from this unwanted lover and ran into a house — which unfortunately turned out to be one of ill-repute . |
| 17 | Provoked by abrupt intimacy with a complete stranger who then turned out to be someone she was forced to spend time with , forced to establish a formal business relationship with … ? |
| 18 | The results of the second set of tests again turned out to be negative and she refused any further investigation . |
| 19 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 20 | But his 1971 season was ruined by an uncompetitive March 713 and by the beginnings of his reputation as Hunt-the-Shunt , including a spectacular accident at Zandvoort which looked far worse than it actually turned out to be . |
| 21 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 22 | And it certainly turned out to be of considerable scientific interest . |
| 23 | There is also speculation as to why Edwards initially accepted an offer of £10m , which subsequently turned out to be way below the market price . |