Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | But this turns out to be subject to ‘ the following provisions of [ the ] section and to sections 42 and 43 ’ . |
2 | The difficulty is that , however strong in outline , the characterization turns out to be weak in detail . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ Mass medium ’ thus turns out to be one of those terms , apparently simple , that grow more elusive upon analysis . |
5 | ‘ But not to a midget who 's just eaten my lunch and whom I 've subsequently insulted , who then turns out to be one of the world 's top dress designers . |
6 | Oh they have this silly man who picks up the telephone in a he 's er got a chef 's hat on and he says Giovanni 's and then it was , it turns out to be one of his old friends so he lapses into sort of Glaswegian . |
7 | If one side , say the antimissile jamming device , pulled too far ahead in the design race , the other side , the missile in this case , would simply cease to be used and manufactured : it would go ‘ extinct ’ Far from being paradoxical like Alice 's original example , the Red Queen effect in its arms-race context turns out to be fundamental to the very idea of progressive advancement . |
8 | Frodo 's elegy for Gandalf ends on the word ‘ died ’ ; but Sam 's coda prefers ‘ flowers ’ , and turns out to be truer in the end . |
9 | Then , after the inquest , nothing more , until I notice a slip of paper projecting from the book much further on , which turns out to be another of Mrs Tamm 's silent helpfulnesses . |
10 | In such cases someone who says ‘ I know ’ lays himself open to reproach if what he says turns out to be false in much the same way as someone who says ‘ I promise ’ lays himself open to reproach if he does not do what he promised to do . |
11 | ‘ It is also possible that an assignment you accept turns out to be different from what you had been led to believe . |
12 | If it turns out to be incapable of being remedied , the result may well be different . |
13 | It means the person never has to work through their grief , but can stay poised at a moment in time , hoping that the news they heard , but can not believe , turns out to be wrong after all . |
14 | Prudently taking cognisance of onlookers also turns out to be important in the social behaviour of other primates . |
15 | The above relationship turns out to be true for any two magnetically coupled circuits . |
16 | Like a bottle you expect to have whisky in and it turns out to be full of a specimen for the doctor . ’ |