Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [be] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This assignment that , initially , had seemed simple and straightforward was turning out to be no such thing . |
| 3 | It finished up it turned out to be an own goal . |
| 4 | If the sense in which all behaviour was non-autonomous turned out to be the same as the sense in which abnormal behaviour is now understood to be so , then the same attitude to it would be appropriate . |
| 5 | The probability of any particular letter being miscopied on any one copying occasion turns out to be a little more than one in a billion . |
| 6 | Rationality turns into narrow intellectualism , freedom into licence , independence into isolationism , dignity into selfish pride ; the autonomous human being turns out to be no more than a social atom after all . |
| 7 | But their home habits are violently interrupted by a male intruder , who turns out to be no more than a secret admirer of one of the sisters , writer ‘ Viola Ge ’ . |
| 8 | And yet it turns out to be the same old stuff only worse , more , again , further . |
| 9 | The resemblance is strengthened by the fact that the surface gravity turns out to be the same at all points on the event horizon , just as the temperature is the same everywhere in a body at thermal equilibrium . |
| 10 | ‘ She can go on to be a latter day Judy Garland . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , all too often ‘ ideal ’ conditions turn out to be no such thing and the dejected suitor must return home , desire unrequited . |
| 12 | On Wednesday , Paddy Ashdown played the tough talker , the straight man who wo n't soften the harsh realities — though those realities immediately turn out to be the same smooth bribes offered by every other politician . |
| 13 | Even where the media report sightings of what are apparently other phenomena , they often turn out to be the same species . |
| 14 | Eventually this year 's winners in both the men 's and women 's races turn out to be the same as last year 's . |
| 15 | Eventually this year 's winners in both the men 's and women 's races turn out to be the same as last year 's . |
| 16 | If England can get around 300 , it will turn out to be a more than useful total on a pitch already taking spin and starting to crumble . |
| 17 | Still bearing in mind the essay in the humanist volume , I wrote to Eliot during the summer suggesting as a theme for his consideration one based on the statement : ‘ The problem of nationalism and the problem of disassociated personalities may turn out to be the same ’ . |