Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry . |
| 2 | The software that handles index building and additions can operate on the keys separately , while the size of the gap between key and data allows the data record to be transferred into main storage if it turns out to be the required record after examination of the key by the control unit . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , whatever the particular historical form the law of labour expenditure takes , be it patriarchal , slave-owning , feudal , capitalist or communist it ‘ turns out to be the compulsory and universal regulator of economic life . ’ |
| 4 | A parcel from London recently landed on my desk with what turns out to be the best analysis of it , Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution by Professor R W Davies of Birmingham University 's Centre for Russian and East European Studies ( Macmillan , hardback £29.50 , paperback £7.99 ) . |
| 5 | You may be a sign that avoids deep , dark and passionate waters but often what you most fear turns out to be the best thing for you . |
| 6 | ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ . |
| 7 | A lion which at the beginning of the book seems as though it might just be an escaped animal from a nearby zoo turns out to be the great Lion of Strength . |
| 8 | And yet it turns out to be the same old stuff only worse , more , again , further . |
| 9 | The resemblance is strengthened by the fact that the surface gravity turns out to be the same at all points on the event horizon , just as the temperature is the same everywhere in a body at thermal equilibrium . |
| 10 | The right person sometimes turns out to be the wrong kind of person . |
| 11 | One turns out to be the Greek Revival Sheriff Courthouse ( 1841 ) in the centre of Glasgow , which is an unprecedented gesture on the part of this Edinburgh-based institution towards is traditional rival , Glasgow , the rough-tough merchant city which has so improved its image over the last ten years through an enlightened cultural policy . |