Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What all of this adds up to is the conclusion that drawing the line between activities that firms can and can not undertake co-operatively is almost impossible to do in the abstract . |
| 2 | Byrd and Philippe de Monte ; Byrd and Taverner ; Byrd and keyboard composers of Redford 's generation ; Byrd and Tallis ; Byrd and Parsons : Byrd research has brought these and many other connections to light , and they cry out to be the stuff of records called ‘ Byrd and his contemporaries ’ . |
| 3 | But let me show you exactly what we I 'll I 'll bring in to being the list of businesses which we invite the golf club to forward to us . |
| 4 | There 's nothing I want more than that my daughter should grow up to be the sort of person who gets along with everybody . ’ |
| 5 | Actually , John nearly went to England much sooner than turned out to be the case . |
| 6 | Their decision made no sense because , at the end of the day , no solution could be evolved with which she did not agree — as indeed turned out to be the case . |
| 7 | By an incredible coincidence , the day in 1986 when Simon proposed to Hilary also turned out to be the day he got his breakthrough with Radio One . |
| 8 | Unemployment and inflation have increased in one country after another and two of the most volatile and destabilising elements in our economies have turned out to be the size of the public sector deficit and the rate of growth of the money supply . |
| 9 | Aggie had explained to Ben what had turned out to be the reason for their invitation to tea ; and now she broke into his silence by saying , ‘ Well ! |
| 10 | The one noise they could not eliminate turned out to be the echo of the Big Bang . |
| 11 | Then the object of the action is turned round to be the subject of the verb " This report was written by us " It seems to be accepted that impartiality and an impersonal flavour to the report are achieved by the use of the passive voice . |
| 12 | It was not turning out to be the kind of summer she had intended . |
| 13 | On closer inspection this turned out to be the L'Chaim Society , a Jewish good-time gang which presumably also has a stout approach to Judaism . |
| 14 | By similar arrangement with the CPR next year I travelled to Montreal and , not knowing the city , asked for a room in the CPR hotel which turned out to be the St. Viger . |
| 15 | When the sealed bids were finally opened , Speyhawk turned out to be the underbidder — by just £2 million below the £24 million bid by the London and Edinburgh Trust . |
| 16 | And what happens if it turned out to be the Lord Bruce — eh ? |
| 17 | ‘ My husband and I have never forgotten your Cordelia ; we saw it on our honeymoon , ’ said the young woman , who turned out to be the wife of an enthusiastic amateur producer of plays . |
| 18 | The temple sits some fifty feet down in its own huge sandpit , buried for centuries until someone tripped over what turned out to be the top of a pillar . |
| 19 | This turned out to be the way to go . |
| 20 | In Britain 1984 turned out to be the year of the coalminers ' strike and Frankie Goes to Hollywood . |
| 21 | Yet although this turned out to be the case and Edna 's and Bert 's spells at Four Winds gave Harriet increasing support , she was still unable to rouse Liza out of her permanent lethargy or to get her further than the garden gate . |
| 22 | In turn , this implied that deviants should exhibit a ‘ gap ’ between their conventional aspirations and expectations , and should be clearly differentiated from non-deviants by their adherence to oppositional values ( neither of which turned out to be the case ) . |
| 23 | He would write to Ken about his holidays in Morocco and going to see dancing ‘ by what turned out to be the Senegal National Shitpot Company ’ . |
| 24 | One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar , but he turned out to be the roadie . |
| 25 | Hibs turned out to be the kind of compliant opponents Rangers needed to help them develop only a fine film of sweat before their European Champions league match against FC Brugge on Wednesday . |
| 26 | Janina 's family , Methodism and history turned out to be the answers . |
| 27 | Just before half-time Keane grabbed what turned out to be the winner when he exchanged passes with Kingsley Black before rounding Flowers and rolling the ball home . |
| 28 | That fight turned out to be the fight of the century . |
| 29 | Her toughest assignment turned out to be the anchor-leg of the intermediate girls relay , when she had to put in a spurt to hold off a determined challenge from Middlesbrough . |
| 30 | Werner 's " General " turned out to be the commander of the armed forces in southern Celebes — a figure whom we would normally have done our utmost to avoid , given his political power and our absence of filming permits , but he turned out to be an exuberantly friendly man who never asked for them . |