Example sentences of "but [conj] it turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong . |
| 2 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 3 | While its hindquarters are towards you there is no real danger , but if it turns round and you can see its head you can bet that a bid to escape is pending . |
| 4 | But if it turns out that the units make an independent contribution , then there is a further level-of-analysis problem . |
| 5 | This is the usual case , but if it turns out that a particular file is very volatile the less restrictive system should be used . |
| 6 | It turns I into I , 2 into 4 , but since it turns I + 2= 3 into 9 , which we can all agree is not equal to I + 4 , it does not satisfy [ 5a ] . |
| 7 | But when it turns to obscenity , their report contrasts the cruelty or violence depicted in Goya 's Disasters of War or King Lear , which appeal ‘ to our shared humanity ’ , with depictions of a more prurient kind which ‘ invite us to collude in degrading it ’ . |
| 8 | If the winter is warm in Mexico they live as free individuals as in the summer , but when it turns cold they aggregate in dense groups , and remain still , in order to conserve energy . |
| 9 | ( The meeting started in a vegetarian restaurant but when it turned out that the table was already booked , we carried on outside , in a freezing wind . |
| 10 | But as it turns out ( as it happens , as ‘ chance ’ or ‘ luck ’ would have it ) there are things in the web of story to refute those grounds . |
| 11 | You feel quite confident in interviewing both of them , but as it turns out only one of them has the imagination to emphasise with your ideas and within three weeks he is in situ . |
| 12 | I seemed all set to continue my way to the top outdoors , but as it turned out , the highlight of my summer was getting my photograph in Athletics Weekly , the bible of the sport , for the first time . |
| 13 | But as it turned out , we were playing this club in Sydney 's red light district and he was in the audience ! |
| 14 | David was a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force , and Janet was a fashion designer , so running a guest house was a radical change for them both — but as it turned out , a happy and successful one . |
| 15 | But as it turned out , she and Nick went alone . |
| 16 | It is not my intention to discuss medical politics , but as it turned out this was not an unhappy solution , notwithstanding that it married two firmly conflicting beliefs which have continued to operate , sometimes rather awkwardly , side by side , and may do so for many years . |
| 17 | But as it turned out the solution was to prove one of the biggest problems of all , mainly because Taurus aimed to accommodate not just the users in the shape of the institutions and individuals which buy and sell shares , but also those with a vested interest in the existing system — the banks who make considerable money from their roles as registrars and custodians . |
| 18 | But as it turned out their way was lit by a full moon , hanging still and strangely ominous in a black velvet sky . |