Example sentences of "[vb infin] out to have " in BNC.
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1 | Flat fields need to be larger as they may turn out to have slight downhill slopes . |
2 | Female involvement may have been at the fringes , though what took place in this ‘ marginal , area may turn out to have been more important than long-forgotten events on the field of play . |
3 | Crudely speaking , this is the principle behind a breed of microscopes that may turn out to have as much impact on the microchip-production line as they have already had in the laboratory . |
4 | A senior dealer warned that yesterday 's improvement in the pound might turn out to have been just ‘ a temporary bit of relief ’ . |
5 | ‘ It will probably turn out to have been discovered twenty times already . |
6 | The fears of the Scruton philosophy may well turn out to have been exaggerated . |
7 | Partnership may turn out to have a relatively long life but are not formed on that expectation . |
8 | These forms of production will increasingly apply to the manufacture of computers — and this is yet another area in which Japanese firms could turn out to have an edge on the rest of the world . |
9 | Obviously , this is a very personal thing , but I 've always suspected that inlays like these will turn out to have a very short lifespan in terms of popular appeal . |
10 | When , as part of my training , I was regressed under hypnosis by my late husband ( also a qualified hypnotherapist ) , I did indeed turn out to have lived during the Tudor period — but I was a pig-farmer 's daughter who , having lived a pitiful existence , died from a gangrenous leg at the age of fifteen . |
11 | We would couple this with an investigation to discover the real cause or causes of the high labour turnover ( which may turn out to have nothing to do with the immediate problem ) . |
12 | If my mother was the constantly anxious sort , always worrying unduly about ‘ what will happen if … . ’ , then I may turn out to have learned this way of response myself . |
13 | Other constancies may turn out to have similarly straightforward explanations . |
14 | In time , load-shedding will have to come ; but when it does , the load will turn out to have shrunk . |
15 | A study based on a volunteer for a show-piece environmental project may turn out to have drawbacks , too . |
16 | The case of DEC is tantalising : either the Alpha will do for the company what the VAX 8600 — quickly supplanted by the VAX 8650 — did for it in the 1980s , and the vast installed base of VAX machines will be replaced by Alpha AXPs , giving the company three years of fantastic growth that propel it to $25,000m , or the desperately late Alpha and the new OpenVMS will turn out to have too many bugs and glitches to be trusted , in which case , DEC will be trotting off after IBM . |
17 | Craig ( 1987 ) concludes that the trends are now back to the pre-industrialization pattern of population and that the ‘ 1911 type ’ may eventually turn out to have been exceptional . |
18 | What may look like a straightforward affirmation of harmony between Christianity and science may turn out to have been a counter in a dialogue between new and entrenched religious positions . |
19 | Most managers are happier with numbers and measurements than qualitative judgements , and there is , certainly , some risk that a small-scale piece of research will turn out to have been done on a sample of people who are rather atypical of the desired target audience as a whole . |
20 | Sometimes , an apparently unambiguous question may turn out to have alternative scientific meanings . |
21 | Of course , unless the facts were absolutely clear , it would be foolish to prosecute under section 1 an offence of obtaining by deception , since something which at first looked like larceny by a trick might turn out to have involved a transfer of the ownership , in which case only section 15 would meet the prosecution 's needs , if I am right . |
22 | That a decision may turn out to have this ultimate effect can hardly be blamed on the decider , who is unable to see that far ahead . |
23 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
24 | No doubt Luke would turn out to have good reason for breaking their date ; no doubt there was an equally good reason why he had n't rung her in person to apologise . |
25 | ‘ This could well turn out to have been a very significant moment in the history of England ’ , wrote Tom McGrath in Peace News . |
26 | Again , many decisions which are successfully carried out in a given period may not turn out to have been the best possible courses of action . |
27 | Fishbane , perhaps , will turn out to have been an army chaplain and a founder of the League of Decency . ’ |
28 | So much for her hope that the Sûreté would turn out to have solved the case for her . |
29 | Even what appears to be what Adam Smith called an " offensive " combination — one which " without any provocation … combine of their own accord to raise the price of their labour " — may turn out to have been workers taking advantage of a temporary shift in the labour market to restore previously enjoyed conditions of employment . |
30 | Any one , or a combination of all these events may turn out to have key importance in the later development of disorder . |