Example sentences of "[vb -s] out to [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The hungry eye hoovers up her stout jugful of brushes , her bottled solvents — xylene , propanol , acetone — her jars of vivacious pigment , her special picture restorer 's cotton wool which with teasing banality turns out to be mere Economy Pleat from Pretty . |
2 | But masked first-person narrative turns out to be deflected stream of consciousness — ‘ He was not really afraid ’ will only transpose into ‘ I 'm not really afraid ’ flitting through his head as he passes the landlady 's open kitchen door — so that the past tense collapses into the present , and we find we have put our finger on something pertinent to the novel 's urgency and attack and ( to borrow Andrew Forge 's ugly but useful key-term for late Monet ) its frontality . |
3 | turns out to be five foot two , dark hair and really not all that good looking after all , and so the problem with the advertising is that you know how one person sees themselves and advertises themselves not always the way they actually appear so its er pitfall |
4 | This turns out to be smart thinking in a way because when I get to Cop Central they promptly arrest me . |
5 | I got the impression that chiropractice — which turns out to be spinal manipulation — is n't a money spinner in this part of the world . |