Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They most likely represent recently emigrated monocytes and may thus turn out to be highly responsive young ‘ inflammatory macrophages ’ . |
| 2 | The plump man who , unfortunately , did n't have an up-to-date snapshot to send her , may just turn out to be that elusive Mr Right . |
| 3 | Meanwhile for Carol 's pupils , the course fee may just turn out to be the best £7.50 their parents ever spent . |
| 4 | Even if one rejected Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say something is white ? ’ one might still hold there to be conditions which have to be satisfied for a colour-word to be used meaningfully . |
| 5 | " It 'll probably turn out to be something really simple . " |
| 6 | No one could be sure where lay the Terra Australis Incognita which Ptolemy had postulated , and which Mercator had argued was a necessary balance for a spherical world , without which the whole planet might simply topple over to be lost among the stars . |
| 7 | Until I can do this , the entire complex cascade I have described in the previous section , and which has taken a decade of work to map , might simply turn out to be a consequence of a bad taste in the chick 's mouth and nothing to do with learning and memory at all . |
| 8 | Should she prove to be young and pretty this might even turn out to be a pleasure . |
| 9 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 10 | But it might then fail dismally to be causally adequate . |
| 11 | Jimmy chartered two Canadair CL44 cargo aircraft and in order to get the left and right stabilisers and rear fuselage sections on board , had to cut much of the wreckage — without , of course , destroying any evidence that might subsequently turn out to be required . |
| 12 | So , paradoxically , smaller black holes might actually turn out to be easier to detect than large ones ! |
| 13 | But your pre-meeting estimates may quickly turn out to be wrong . |
| 14 | The long line of leading Conservatives on the platform fixed their faces into expressions of interested concern , and prepared themselves for what could only turn out to be a surfeit of oratory . |
| 15 | Your very first field landing could even turn out to be the most difficult field of your whole gliding career . |
| 16 | Dave Sims opened Northampton up and prop Andy Deacon bulldozed through to score what could well turn out to be on of the most important tries of the season … |
| 17 | Material which starts out at regional may also go on to be used on the national networks . |
| 18 | The events may also turn out to be Fergie 's biggest folly financially . |
| 19 | Of course , outside Japan , elsewhere in the world , there may also turn out to be losers on a wider scale , those trapped and organizationally outflanked in modernist organization forms as the leading edge turns ever more postmodern . |
| 20 | As companies that do fall victim to computer crime prefer to deal with the problem internally , personnel security may well turn out to be the most vital component in a firm 's defences . |
| 21 | There are more Neanderthal features present , although some postcranial characters may well turn out to be more widespread plesiomorphies when data from other , non-Neanderthal , samples are known . |
| 22 | The impact of the Schlunk decision on actual practice may well turn out to be quite limited , for the Court went out of its way to spell out the advantages of using the machinery of the Convention : |
| 23 | ‘ It may well turn out to be diverting . ’ |
| 24 | The buzz word of Nineties skin care may well turn out to be ‘ liposomes ’ . |
| 25 | We are told that Tamburlaine is ‘ misled by dreaming prophecies ’ in the opening scene , and this may well turn out to be true . |
| 26 | Improvements in this area may well turn out to be the most difficult to achieve . |
| 27 | The main effect of the 1992 programme may well turn out to be psychological , that is to turn the attention of producers from the EC , and other developed economies , towards the European market and to encourage them to gather information on the markets of Europe . |
| 28 | Even if one is as generous as possible regarding the size of the error , the figure would still turn out to be several tens of millions of lost lives . |
| 29 | In Germany , where Hertz had discovered the radio waves in accordance with Maxwell 's theory of the electromagnetic field , and where in 1895–7 W. K. Röntgen ( using a Crookes tube to generate cathode rays ) had discovered X-rays , the general belief was that the cathode rays would also turn out to be a form of wave in the ether . |
| 30 | No doubt with typical Leo overkill , he would also turn out to be an expert in shooting rapids , taming wild horses , and leaping tall buildings with a single bound . |