Example sentences of "out to be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dismissed this as irrelevant and his use of metaphor , in what turned out to be an eighty-minute interview , was most revealing . |
| 2 | This turned out to be an object lesson in how to lay waste to an Indian Restaurant . |
| 3 | Luckily it turned out to be an isolated incident but we had nightmares about a recurrence . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | My father had bought the farm at an auction , at what turned out to be an inflated price . |
| 6 | The picture turned out to be an abstract on a sporting theme , called Tennis , with nets and balls littered around but no sign of the swimming pools and rippling water favoured by Hockney . |
| 7 | Moroccan food turned out to be an equally good treat . |
| 8 | But what if motherhood , fulfilment , her committed relationship , turned out to be an abrupt end to the productive misery of adolescence ? |
| 9 | The fact that Christopher turned out to be an east European too hardly caused a ripple in Jane . |
| 10 | If , however , the suspect piece turned out to be an aluminium bronze ( as was recently the case with some coins purporting to be Anglo-Saxon ) , then one could reject it straight away because aluminium , and thus aluminium bronze , was not known before the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , we later discovered , the builder who was working on these kennels turned out to be an absolute cowboy . |
| 12 | If , as was entirely possible , he found nothing and Vic turned out to be an innocent eccentric , this action would be inexcusable . |
| 13 | Lamont turned out to be an egotistical womaniser who had selfishly kept his marriage of twenty years intact ; Porter , a woman of integrity , now on her fourth marriage and deeply fond of both her disturbed children . |
| 14 | He had himself witnessed the ‘ dissidence of dissent ’ as a child : his father , a stonemason in Hexham , left the local Congregational chapel when the new minister turned out to be an Arminian , and migrated , somewhat illogically for a Calvinist , to the local Wesleyan chapel . |
| 15 | By midnight they had answered two further calls : another ‘ mickey ’ and a call of good intent which turned out to be an automatic fire alarm . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If Mr Kinnock found himself head of a minority government and decided to ‘ soldier on ’ he might find that Sir Richard Attenborough , that grand old trouper in ‘ Luvvies for Labour ’ , could turn out to be an embarrassment . |
| 18 | He was excited and overjoyed and turned out to be an enthusiastic and forgetful parent . |
| 19 | In Sybil , the humble heroine turns out to be an heiress and is able to marry her well-meaning aristocratic lover without compromising the class system , and a similar stroke of good fortune resolves the love stories in Shirley and North and South . |
| 20 | John Mason Cook turned out to be an even more successful businessman than his father ( which caused a considerable amount of friction between father and son ) ; his acumen , energy and determination swept the company , which was already successful , to international recognition and the name of Cook became synonymous with travel worldwide . |
| 21 | Stephanie turned out to be an Australian model who had thrown in her job to follow Colbert to Hawaii . |
| 22 | Johnny Boy turned out to be an old friend of Betty 's . |
| 23 | The answer turned out to be an injection of Equity Capital . |
| 24 | They were welcomed by teacher Mark O'Callaghan and pupils David Lloyd , Claire Linney , Sarah Curry and Jay Kaminski for what turned out to be an even contest with everything depending on the final question . |
| 25 | Another thing I have tried , which may turn out to be an even better proposition than sweetcorn or the like , is swimfeeder-fed luncheon meat . |
| 26 | She took her doctorate in the study of the UFO movement itself , and has worked with several British researchers on what has turned out to be an illuminating project . |
| 27 | After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers . |
| 28 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 29 | In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents , it has turned out to be an Annus Horribilis . |
| 30 | ‘ I said how disappointing it was that her annus mirabilis had turned out to be an annus horribilis . |