Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [be] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope he can grow up to be a normal young man in spite of what has happened to me . |
| 2 | Two is set up to be a second clean channel , while three offers a ‘ crunch rhythm ’ facility and so an overdrive rotary joins the Lo and Hi EQ here . |
| 3 | Derek grew up to be a careful young man , never prizing any possession too much and desperately afraid of making a mistake . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll grow up to be an ugly wizened little monster with short arms and a big head . |
| 5 | But , as we drew closer , it turned out to be a great crested grebe . |
| 6 | So let's hope Shirley Bassey turned out to be a Real Big Spender and put the Goldfinger on him to the tune of a few bob . |
| 7 | The cafe turned out to be a strange garish world of sandy yellow . |
| 8 | They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity . |
| 9 | They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity . |
| 10 | Whatever her intentions , he turned out to be a good old-fashioned liberal . |
| 11 | This turned out to be a major administrative problem . |
| 12 | Of course , in retrospect , the decision to close down Ryde and Sandown and the cost of the new offices turned out to be a major contributory factor to the problems that we now find ourselves in . |
| 13 | Even nipping into Boots to pick up a bottle of shampoo or popping into Woolworths for some pick 'n' mix can turn out to be a major sensory-assault course . |
| 14 | And the engineering marvel turned out to be a slow-motion natural disaster . |
| 15 | Anyway , it would do no harm to try and you never can tell , Vincent — she might turn out to be a classic Greek beauty . ’ |
| 16 | The van turned out to be a 1938 vintage vehicle which was due to enter the London to Brighton rally . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose she made me out to be a right little idiot , ’ says Anya . |
| 18 | Her style of government has turned out to be a marvellous make-work scheme for political scientists , contemporary historians and political commentators . |
| 19 | When he tried his hand at another murder and the proposed victim turned out to be a young Anglo-Prussian only just arrived in Vienna , it seemed likely you were the man . |
| 20 | Johnson , contradicting him , took him from the particular belief to the general likelihood : from the possibility of a singular holy place to the generic derivation from water : ‘ Had it been an accidental name , the similarity between it and Anaitis might have had something in it ; but it turns out to be a mere physiological name . ’ |
| 21 | The source of the smoke turned out to be a huge cast-iron incinerator behind the house which had been crammed full of papers and what seemed to be old clothes . |
| 22 | Rosières turned out to be a big old field , already occupied by a squadron of bombers and a squadron of Bristol Fighters . |
| 23 | Instead the rep went off to arrange for his boss to telephone Mr Humble later with a special offer , which turned out to be a costly special offer . |
| 24 | A koliba turned out to be a large wooden chalet-type restaurant which in this case was set amid tall pine trees . |
| 25 | She turned out to be an arrogant fanatical hyperactive zealot , piously lecturing everybody else about ‘ democracy and pluralism ’ while dismissing , indeed suppressing , every point of view different from hers . |
| 26 | What starts as a straightforward health issue can turn out to be an important medicolegal examination with implications subsequently at trial . |
| 27 | Already in 1860 Crookes had embarked on what turned out to be an important journalistic enterprise , launching the weekly Chemical News , which he edited until 1906 . |
| 28 | The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers do describe a number of fruit fools , fools made from gooseberries , raspberries , strawberries , redcurrants , apples , mulberries , apricots , even from fresh figs ; but few of these dishes turn out to be the simple cream-enriched purées we know today . |
| 29 | That chimney turned out to be the only delicate part of the building and scaffolding had to be erected so that it could be rebuilt . |
| 30 | ’ 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 ’ . |