Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] be [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The probability of any particular letter being miscopied on any one copying occasion turns out to be a little more than one in a billion .
2 Rationality turns into narrow intellectualism , freedom into licence , independence into isolationism , dignity into selfish pride ; the autonomous human being turns out to be no more than a social atom after all .
3 But their home habits are violently interrupted by a male intruder , who turns out to be no more than a secret admirer of one of the sisters , writer ‘ Viola Ge ’ .
4 And yet it turns out to be the same old stuff only worse , more , again , further .
5 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 .
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