Example sentences of "that turned out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) The opponent has responded to a front kick that turned out to be a roundhouse kick ! |
| 2 | And the Democrats among them also know that if they went on record against a war that turned out to be a great victory , President Bush would be even harder to beat in 1992 . |
| 3 | Even that turned out to be no simple task . |
| 4 | Somehow him telling that lie that turned out to be nearly true made him feel that it was his fault . |
| 5 | She had dragged him into a room that turned out to be empty . |
| 6 | He emerged amongst the Egyptian heavyweights and saw , between two huge stone legs , something rapid and white and golden that turned out to be Fergus Wolff , also heading for coffee . |
| 7 | Fergus sprawled in the cafeteria banquette and said the challenge was to deconstruct something that had apparently already deconstructed itself , since the book was about a painting that turned out to be nothing but a chaotic mass of brush-strokes . |
| 8 | A TEENAGER died in a blaze at his home after firemen were diverted by a call that turned out to be a student prank . |
| 9 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 10 | But we 'd rather have a major scare that turned out to be a false alarm than the real thing and a late start , sir . ’ |
| 11 | In the end , too , it was the Japanese that turned out to be most amenable to the idea of throwing away and starting from scratch ; which is what Taos does . |
| 12 | The laboratory 's John Barton , speaking at a conference in London last year , described a number of occasions when decisions to invest in schemes to recycle rubbish or to burn it as fuel had been based on estimates of commercial and household waste that turned out to be much too high . |
| 13 | In the end , too , it was the Japanese that turned out to be most amenable to the idea of throwing away and starting from scratch ; which is what Taos does . |
| 14 | The key to completing the design was to add the input-output interface of Motorola 's 88110 RISC to the IBM chip , something that turned out to be easier than anticipated . |
| 15 | Money from the sale of an old cup that turned out to be valuable , that would be different ; Gran would take it , without much thanks to Ben for his trouble , and perhaps it would be the end of all her struggles . |
| 16 | How dangerous that turned out to be ! |
| 17 | He beat his chest and sang a song that turned out to be the old monarchist Bulgarian anthem . |
| 18 | She parried with a weapon that turned out to be a medieval axe . |
| 19 | She was lying almost abeam of us , and at first I could n't see her hull , but only a sort of thickening of the mist that turned out to be her mast . |
| 20 | That damned undeserved consideration that turned out to be self-inflicted purgatory six years ago , and so bloody unnecessary in the end . |
| 21 | It held biscuits that turned out to be as hard as diamondwood . |
| 22 | In fact , the statistical significance test controversy was the precursor of concerns that turned out to be rather more fundamental to variable analysis ; concerns that were not voiced by such as Becker and other Symbolic Interactionists who wanted no truck with a sociology derived from variable analysis ( and whose criticisms we shall review later in this chapter ) , but by advocates of variable analytic and survey approaches . |
| 23 | He prodded my ribs with something that turned out to be a manilla envelope . |
| 24 | All 17 strictures that turned out to be malignant were initially detected by barium enema . |
| 25 | Hodsgon was the first to go … bowled by Base for 25 … and that turned out to be the joint top score |