Example sentences of "[vb -s] out to [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , erm , but , do you think that , sorry , do you think the appraisal itself , because it 's an annual event , er , some branch managers will get to you with what turns out to be the performance review , and therefore , not doing it during the year , because of the appraisal ? |
| 2 | It 's opening leads one to expect a knowing , ‘ insider ’ political novel , but it turns out to be the story of a destructive sexual passion , complete with purple passages , the saga of a successful man who becomes obsessed with his son 's mistress , who is only too willing to oblige . |
| 3 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 4 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 5 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 6 | ‘ Let's just say , Mr Newman , that in so many murder enquiries the culprit turns out to be the person who discovered the body . |
| 7 | This in fact turns out to be the case , as will be shown here and in the following chapters . |
| 8 | We , like the Chancellor , hope that turns out to be the case . ’ |
| 9 | If that turns out to be the case , Chalmers hopes to be back in action before the end of the season , and that would certainly lead to a standby spot . |
| 10 | But whether serial or parallel processing turns out to be the way the brain works ( there will be more to say about this too in the next chapters ) , there will be cellular events associated with both the short-term and the long-term phase , and we have to try to distinguish between them experimentally . |
| 11 | ‘ If this turns out to be the lady we 're looking for , she was engaged to a Treasury Minister , who called in my guv'nor . ’ |
| 12 | Strange how what you regard at the time as being your downfall , often turns out to be the making of you . |
| 13 | The disruptive rhetorical structure in this case turns out to be the undecidability between inside and outside worlds within the figure of metaphor . |
| 14 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 15 | On closer examination , however , most of this turns out to be the product , not of reasoned consideration and reflection , but merely of some political manoeuvre or party attitude . |
| 16 | A suitable plane at these parameter values turns out to be the plane , which includes C+ , and the return map obtained , for r-values just less than and just greater than , is shown schematically in Fig. 6.7 . |
| 17 | In nine cases out of ten it turns out to be the office cleaner 's milkman 's financial adviser . |
| 18 | In murder mysteries , it is always the least suspicious person who turns out to be the killer . |