Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door facing the entrance turned out to be a bathroom . |
| 2 | Walking without the wheelbarrow turned out to be a success . |
| 3 | Her supposed punisher turned out to be an effective reward . |
| 4 | For the rest , Friday turned out to be a bad day at Blackrock with Graham losing twice and McHugh and the Clarendon triple skipped by Mark Shannon all falling at the first hurdle . |
| 5 | The short cut turned out to be a lane which started abruptly at the bottom of a flight of steps opposite the Questura and ran straight down the hillside like a ruled line . |
| 6 | A koliba turned out to be a large wooden chalet-type restaurant which in this case was set amid tall pine trees . |
| 7 | The Mail turned out to be a marvellous breeding ground for television . |
| 8 | Of course , in retrospect , the decision to close down Ryde and Sandown and the cost of the new offices turned out to be a major contributory factor to the problems that we now find ourselves in . |
| 9 | The cafe turned out to be a strange garish world of sandy yellow . |
| 10 | In fact the car turned out to be a souped-up grease-wagon piloted by an ageing rocker eager to prove he still had it in the nuts . |
| 11 | The KGB agent turned out to be a Reeperbahn hooker and the documents a couple of hundred marks for services rendered . |
| 12 | ‘ The fact that Lombroso 's stigmata turned out to be no more common among criminals than among any other section of the community ( see Wolfgang , 1960 ) , although often thought to be a refutation of his theory , is in fact not crucial to it . |
| 13 | If , however , the suspect piece turned out to be an aluminium bronze ( as was recently the case with some coins purporting to be Anglo-Saxon ) , then one could reject it straight away because aluminium , and thus aluminium bronze , was not known before the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | England strikers Shearer and Wright had attracted all the pre-match publicity but their contest turned out to be a non-event . |
| 15 | ANGIE WENT OFF TO BE A PLUGHEAD . |
| 16 | Chase turned out to be a tuba player , of all things , though I would have put him down as backing vocals for The Communards on appearances alone . |
| 17 | In fact the sports hall turned out to be a rather barren concrete building tucked away in a corner which nobody seemed very keen to visit ! |
| 18 | Unfortunately , we later discovered , the builder who was working on these kennels turned out to be an absolute cowboy . |
| 19 | The fact that Christopher turned out to be an east European too hardly caused a ripple in Jane . |
| 20 | It could be argued even so that in 10 cases the investigative work turned out to be a waste of time and caused great distress to the families investigated . |
| 21 | But the child turned out to be the English adopted son of a Greek couple . |
| 22 | The corner of the opposite wood turned out to be an acute point . |
| 23 | The whole operation of recognizing the bravery of the Italians who had helped prisoners-of-war turned out to be an utter disaster , not only in Eric 's area but throughout the country . |
| 24 | She had given her kisses to a clown , he wrote , and was much gratified when MacBride turned out to be a drunken bully . |
| 25 | In fact , although the manual supplied with the machine I purchased was for a KH710 , the machine turned out to be a KH585 , possibly an earlier model . |
| 26 | The campaign which Mortimer now led in Scotland turned out to be an ignominious fiasco . |
| 27 | In fact , though , the new Chancellor turned out to be the emollient figure of Sir Geoffrey Howe , once a vaguely progressive Heathite minister too , but a notable convert to monetarism in the later 1970s . |
| 28 | Johnny Boy turned out to be an old friend of Betty 's . |
| 29 | He had only a daughter to succeed him and his son-in-law turned out to be a second Michael Chambre , who after Lath 's death ‘ let loose the reins to many disorderly courses , as cocking , raseing , drinking and lewdnesse ’ , so that he too finally lost all and sold Balderton to Robert Hayward , a local yeoman . |
| 30 | March turned out to be the best of the six months with £5,438,860 of ‘ new money ’ being introduced . |