Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] to [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing I want more than that my daughter should grow up to be the sort of person who gets along with everybody . ’ |
| 2 | Assuming admissible statements to establish parliamentary intention are limited , as would appear presently to be the case , to parliamentary statements , there remain grey areas in the application of the rule . |
| 3 | I guarantee that if one were to sit down , go back to basics , and argue through the parameters as suggested exclusively by the score , and not from one 's aural knowledge of the record catalogue ( and that hoary old chestnut , a ‘ classic ’ version ) , one would encounter a far greater consensus of opinion than would appear initially to be the case . |
| 4 | These short filmmakers are the people who will go on to be the Jarmans , Greenaways , Jarmuschs of the Nineties ; see their work now and tell your friends you discovered them first ! |
| 5 | However , this does not seem necessarily to be the case . |
| 6 | If cow 's milk does turn out to be the problem you can try drinking sheep or goat milk instead , after a few weeks . |
| 7 | Quite honestly a lot of them do turn out to be the customer 's own fault . |
| 8 | ‘ Whether Dickens himself shall turn out to be the hero of his own life , ’ Ackroyd wonders as he begins his story , echoing Pip in Great Expectations , ‘ or whether that station will be held by others , these pages must show . ’ |
| 9 | That may turn out to be the case as the likes of Ferrari , Williams-Renault and Benetton-Ford get into their stride later in the season , but on the streets of Phoenix , Senna had no trouble in scoring his 27th win . |
| 10 | Erm which did n't turn out to be the case . |
| 11 | As will also turn out to be the case , given the definition of the physical to which we shall come , they are all of them physical . |
| 12 | This does turn out to be the case . |
| 13 | THIS MAY or may not turn out to be the winter when serious numbers of British skiiers forsake the Alps for the Rockies . |
| 14 | A lot of you 'd be surprised how gullible a lot of people are and frankly a lot of shopping problems do turn out to be the shopper 's own fault . |
| 15 | Hopefully the evening would n't turn out to be the disaster she 'd envisaged . |
| 16 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is no case to be made for taxpayers ' money being used to prop up Boris Yeltsin , who will turn out to be the David Owen of Russia ? |
| 17 | Which brings me to what may turn out to be the tragedy of this election . |
| 18 | ‘ I was so desperately afraid that you would turn out to be the sort of person who cares only about money and possessions . ’ |
| 19 | At first sight , this could turn out to be the bargain of the century , because the asset-values are calculated on 1991 prices , even though Russian prices rose by a vertiginous 2,600% during 1992 . |
| 20 | In small gardens of the National Trust it could turn out to be the rule rather than the exception . |
| 21 | They might turn out to be the truth , for all Mungo knew , but he was not yet ready to take the shabby magician fully into his confidence . |
| 22 | With any luck this might turn out to be the workshop she was looking for ! |
| 23 | The new indoor tennis centre in Wavertree , which could be ready for use in September , may turn out to be the venue for a winter LTA-rated tournament . |
| 24 | She was ungrateful enough to regret that the excitement was over — and that she must learn again to be the sort of woman who would find that sort of regret childish and irresponsible . |