Example sentences of "[noun pl] turned [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , these anomalies turned out to be due to radioactivity ; but the point is that conservation principles are not readily falsifiable . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , we later discovered , the builder who was working on these kennels turned out to be an absolute cowboy . |
| 5 | In a turbulent economy , the planning and control functions turned out to be mutually incompatible . |
| 6 | People who had said — during another part of the interview — that they preferred the smallest possible individual instalments turned out to be just as likely to switch to a shorter repayment schedule ( given lower APR and credit costs ) as people who had said they preferred the shortest possible repayment schedule . |
| 7 | An increase in livestock , and larger areas turned over to rice production , are possible contributors to this effect ; a smaller contribution could come from termites . |
| 8 | There were two reasons for interview failure other than refusals ; first , residents were sometimes too old or incapacitated to be interviewed , and second , many of the listed addresses in inner-city areas turned out to be demolished or boarded up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All the temples were totally demolished during the Roman period , probably by Christian iconoclasts , and the sites turned over to industrial use . |
| 11 | Toiling up the slope from Falmer railway station , you had the Kafkaesque sensation of walking into an endlessly deep stage set where apparently three-dimensional objects turned out to be painted flats , and reality receded as fast as you pursued it . |
| 12 | But the ‘ blaze ’ seen by Leicestershire cops turned out to be amber lights shining through steam at a factory near Grantham , Lincs . |
| 13 | By contrast , purchases bought with credit cards and shop accounts turned out to be less expensive than planned for more people than average . |
| 14 | Even in such a simple organism as L. casei , the interactions turned out to be very complex , far beyond those of a single enzyme system and full of ‘ inviting pitfalls for unwary investigators ’ . |
| 15 | In this one the ugly old lady with birds turned out to be his friend . |
| 16 | The Romanian products turned out to be near-worthless . |
| 17 | All these opinions turned out to be mistaken . |
| 18 | To my surprise , bad debts turned out to be more common in Chelsea than in Whitechapel . |
| 19 | By 1953 , the stiffener works had gone , the buildings turned over to the manufacture of various inks and dyestuffs . |
| 20 | Rosières turned out to be a big old field , already occupied by a squadron of bombers and a squadron of Bristol Fighters . |
| 21 | Originally a side-show , the new replicators turned out to be so much more efficient than the original crystals that they took over . |
| 22 | Anne was sort of expecting blubbery cabinet ministers and worn clergymen , slavering and ready to practise their secret vices , but the guests turned out to be unidentifiable nobodies . |
| 23 | These reservations turned out to be justified as the project progressed . |
| 24 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 25 | While both ideas turned out to be partially correct , the essential step in overcoming this difficulty was the application of an extra magnetic field — the so-called toroidal field — with lines of force parallel to the current flow round the torus . |
| 26 | On Jan. 11 Cambodian officials turned over to the USA remains thought to be those of two US servicemen killed during the Vietnam war . |
| 27 | I parked behind it and prepared some sarky backchat if the owners turned out to be sightseers . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But the blotches turned out to be the result of a take-away chicken meal . |
| 30 | Bloodstained clothing was found at Peppard Common , some five miles from Reading , but under analysis the stains turned out to be six months old . |