Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] to [be] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But let me show you exactly what we I 'll I 'll bring in to being the list of businesses which we invite the golf club to forward to us .
2 There 's nothing I want more than that my daughter should grow up to be the sort of person who gets along with everybody . ’
3 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 !
4 Tonight she would have been quite willing to let him do anything he wanted just as long as things would go back to being the way they had been .
5 I can do it myself and you can go back to being the Direktor of the company instead of my protector .
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 .
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