Example sentences of "turn [adv] to be " in BNC.

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1 Of these over 50 actually turned up to be educated .
2 The information Paul provided turned out to be extremely useful .
3 The most powerful is that the figures , inaccurate as they have turned out to be , convinced experts employed by big investors and banks such as National Westminster .
4 The excess of Government expenditure in that year over the yield of taxation was forecast to be £1 billion and actually turned out to be just over £1and1/2 ; billion .
5 For once , the product had turned out to be even better than the advert .
6 The same has turned out to be true of show-jumping , a little-known landed pursuit before it was taken up by the BBC as a sport which might appeal to women , especially when Pat Smythe rode Flanagan to four European Championship victories between 1957 and 1963 .
7 It had turned out to be exactly as Charles had forecast , ‘ a gigantic , costly and splendid waste of time ’ .
8 Nigel Martyn , the goalkeeper he bought from Bristol Rovers for £1 million , has turned out to be a snip , his acrobatics saving the day when United penetrated Palace 's back four , newly shored up by the strapping Andy Thorn .
9 McLeish grunted , feeling meanly triumphant that he had turned out to be right in his view that Francesca would not be able to sweep Tristram out of the hands of the New York police in quite the Napoleonic way she had assumed .
10 Instead of acquiring fairly smoothly a bigger version of the cosy old federal republic , with its powerful economy and low political profile , they have inherited an unknown country packed with problems and with people who have mostly turned out to be German-speaking strangers .
11 Mr Kaifu has turned out to be more of a winner than a cipher .
12 IN THE words of the Gaullist leader , Jacques Chirac , France 's eagerly awaited new government has turned out to be the former Rocard government minus Michel Rocard .
13 He had turned out to be a lame duck and limped out of her life .
14 What might have seemed a revelation of God 's extraordinary generosity has turned out to be another expression of his terrible anger .
15 For the rest of them the promises have turned out to be empty .
16 ( Afterwards Andy Roberts pointed out that the only ‘ alien implant ’ so far discovered turned out to be a ball bearing that had got lodged up a child 's nose . )
17 The crazy guy , now at the bottom of the Baltic with his crew , had turned out to be a secret and tormented homosexual , a condition he had hidden under an apparently conventional marriage .
18 He is a precursor of both existentialism and psychoanalysis even if both have turned out to be disappointing by comparison with the hopes once placed in them .
19 A challenge perhaps , but heaven knows what Mr Donovan 's fans would have done with their bedroom posters if he had turned out to be gay .
20 WHO would have thought that those Spandau Ballet boys would have turned out to be such fine thespians ?
21 ‘ It must proclaim , too , that responsibilities are as important as rights ; that there are no excuses for crime ; and that even those who have turned out to be bad can be helped to be good . ’
22 Sadly , the one product that Medirace was developing turned out to be a dud .
23 Now that too turned out to be fake .
24 A noise at 44,000 miles turned out to be the early warning of a catastrophic failure as , over the next 4,000 miles the rollers chewed their way 5mm into the front pump housing causing a gradual loss of power steering .
25 There have been some exceptions ( again , perhaps because insufficient phase-one training was given ) ( Arnoult 1953 ; McAllister 1953 ; McCormack 1958 ) but for the most part the test performance of control subjects has turned out to be inferior to that of subjects pre-trained with the relevant stimuli ( G. Cantor 1955 ; J. Cantor 1955 ; Cantor and Hottel 1957 ; Smith and Means 1961 ; Hendrickson and Muehl 1962 ) .
26 As we have already seen , the results of experiments comparing the effects of mere observation of the stimuli with those produced by explicit discrimination training have turned out to be inconsistent and open to a range of interpretations .
27 But how can I look him in the face and tell him that 's turned out to be true ? ’
28 These all turned out to be negative and the examining doctor decided to take rectal samples when she returned for her results as he felt she would be unlikely to come back a third time .
29 Actually , John nearly went to England much sooner than turned out to be the case .
30 In fact , the way I had instinctively started to limp turned out to be the best : a short step on the left heel with the leg stiff and a long springing step on the right .
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