Example sentences of "[verb] out [prep] be [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the way I had instinctively started to limp turned out to be the best : a short step on the left heel with the leg stiff and a long springing step on the right . |
| 2 | Jesus , that woman had turned out to be the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 3 | March turned out to be the best of the six months with £5,438,860 of ‘ new money ’ being introduced . |
| 4 | Attack turned out to be the best form of defence and as long as we pushed and shoved as much as the opposition , everyone was happy . |
| 5 | Our second day turned out to be the wettest and coldest . |
| 6 | At the long wavelengths he observed , the Galactic Centre turned out to be the brightest object in the sky , brighter even than the Sun . |
| 7 | I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 8 | ‘ I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 9 | A parcel from London recently landed on my desk with what turns out to be the best analysis of it , Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution by Professor R W Davies of Birmingham University 's Centre for Russian and East European Studies ( Macmillan , hardback £29.50 , paperback £7.99 ) . |
| 10 | You may be a sign that avoids deep , dark and passionate waters but often what you most fear turns out to be the best thing for you . |
| 11 | Objective : ‘ Courtaulds set out to be the best of its kind at what it does . |
| 12 | Meanwhile for Carol 's pupils , the course fee may just turn out to be the best £7.50 their parents ever spent . |
| 13 | A field discovered following the controversial opening up of the Santa Maria basin off California could turn out to be the largest discovered since the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska but the most stringent efforts will do no more than mitigate an inevitable production decline . |