Example sentences of "[noun sg] turns [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This unusual experience turns out to be informative and fun . |
| 2 | There are many new motorways not shown ; the detailed form of the roads is not reproduced faithfully ; and what is shown on the map to be an isolated settlement turns out to be hardly any bigger than the many other settlements you can see . |
| 3 | The disruptive rhetorical structure in this case turns out to be the undecidability between inside and outside worlds within the figure of metaphor . |
| 4 | But masked first-person narrative turns out to be deflected stream of consciousness — ‘ He was not really afraid ’ will only transpose into ‘ I 'm not really afraid ’ flitting through his head as he passes the landlady 's open kitchen door — so that the past tense collapses into the present , and we find we have put our finger on something pertinent to the novel 's urgency and attack and ( to borrow Andrew Forge 's ugly but useful key-term for late Monet ) its frontality . |
| 5 | The road continues south , climbing over a rise with a good retrospective view of the full length of Kingsdale and then makes a long descent to Thornton in Lonsdale after a branch turns off to the right for the A65 at Westhouse . |
| 6 | He crushed them up But this powder turns out to be Soneryl . ’ |
| 7 | The ark turns out to be decidedly too hot to handle . |
| 8 | The difficulty is that , however strong in outline , the characterization turns out to be weak in detail . |
| 9 | It should therefore be of little surprise if the expenditure on inner city regeneration turns out to be a risible fraction of that necessary to have a major impact on the level of urban immiseration as long as it can still produce the sort of photogenic spectacle so clearly embodied in Birmingham 's super-prix or Phoenix 's grand prix , Boston and New York 's marathons or Liverpool 's Tall Ships Race . |
| 10 | Since this second sufficient condition turns out to be of some importance , it might be useful to have an intuitive idea of what is involved . |
| 11 | A short distance up the road from the Hill Inn , a bridleway turns off to the right and , with Ingleborough looming directly in front , passes along an easy terrace to reach a gate in a cross-wall after half a mile . |
| 12 | They 've had some important and notable cup victories here in their time have Shrewsbury Town , but none can have been as dramatic as this match , whatever the final result turns out to be . |
| 13 | But the notion of an instrument turns out to be as empty as his posturing . |
| 14 | Attention in these films , like in realist films , is called to the referent , only the referent turns out to be , like the ear or the flowers in Blue Velvet and the imaged and real automobiles in Jules 's living quarters in Diva , a set of false , glossy , or monstrous signifiers . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's just say , Mr Newman , that in so many murder enquiries the culprit turns out to be the person who discovered the body . |
| 16 | Sometimes , the model or theory being examined leads into a blind alley or the methodology turns out to be faulty , and the researcher feels as if the effort involved was worthless . |
| 17 | which is about the future and about as accurate as any forecasting of the future turns out to be , a robot agitator is formed in the shape of a young woman . |
| 18 | Recent ethnography of writing has demonstrated that the same is true for many contemporary societies now labelled ‘ literate ’ ; much of the practice turns out to be , as in Iran ( see below , Section 2 ) , writing names on crates of produce , keeping records of business transactions , writing cheques etc. , or , as in English factories , reading warning or instruction labels , one-word sign symbols and signing names or filling in forms ( see Section 3 ) . |
| 19 | Although it is fashionable to talk about its value ‘ for its own sake ’ , what prompts the theorising is the strong and well-founded belief that the experiences of childhood affect the kind of adult which the child turns out to be . |
| 20 | Electromagnetic radiation oscillating v times a second turns out to be made up of a whole number of packets of energy , each of amount unc where h is Planck 's celebrated constant . |
| 21 | These difficulties may arise especially when the program in question turns out to be more useful and successful than the parties originally envisaged . |
| 22 | Here we do indeed find an example of a ‘ liquidation ’ of history which , it will be recalled , is exactly the accusation that Terry Eagleton makes against poststructuralism ; but the actual example in Bachelard demonstrates how much more complex the issue turns out to be . |
| 23 | The strident claims of the manufacturer — MSD — are supported by two references : of these one is quoted no less than four times , but on reading the small print this reference turns out to be ‘ data on file Merck , Sharp and Dohme Ltd ’ — hardly the most impartial of sources . |
| 24 | But if marriage turns out to be less than satisfactory in the arena of personal fulfilment , this is not only for the marriage partners . |
| 25 | In Leeds a professional burglar turns out to be just 13 , with a record stretching back to when he was seven . |
| 26 | Researchers also wanted to discover how much viewers ' attitudes are affected by the context in which a sexy scene turns up on the home screen — and the timing . |
| 27 | Perhaps most compelling of all , an Agency dedicated to ultra-patriotism turns out to be a ruthless engine of internal subversion . |
| 28 | When this and the regeneration/resurrection theme are brought to bear upon the remark about Bazarov and the 1840s , what seemed a difference of degree turns out to be one of a kind . |
| 29 | But whether artificial intelligence turns out to be good enough for the movie makers is likely to be another matter . |
| 30 | Motorola Inc 's internal IT General Systems Sector turns out to be its biggest Unix customer . |