Example sentences of "might turn out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |
| 2 | Air transport was ruled out because of the danger of crashes on land , which in this case , because of the route , might turn out to be US soil in Alaska . |
| 3 | They might turn out to be the truth , for all Mungo knew , but he was not yet ready to take the shabby magician fully into his confidence . |
| 4 | The beam weapons that might seem invulnerable in 1983 might turn out to be no more potent than peashooters in 2033 . |
| 5 | No matter what the truth might turn out to be it would not affect Mark . |
| 6 | What that something might turn out to be he had no idea . |
| 7 | It clearly precludes the collection of data for its own sake , or just in case it might turn out to be useful ; and it requires that information shall be kept for only as long as it remains relevant . |
| 8 | And a fine mess it might turn out to be . |
| 9 | Later scholars contented themselves with trying to find an abstract basis on which gender might turn out to be logical after all . |
| 10 | Most claims about markedness involve comparisons across languages ; for example , a particular word order might turn out to be much commoner , less unexpected than the alternatives in the languages of the world or of a certain language family . |
| 11 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 12 | It was the incident of the heat sink which made Yeremi pray that he should no longer stay in his place , but might somehow enforce … a different sort of order , however paltry his contribution might turn out to be . |
| 13 | Anyway , it would do no harm to try and you never can tell , Vincent — she might turn out to be a classic Greek beauty . ’ |
| 14 | She felt Nick had made an enemy of Mr Evans and that might turn out to be dangerous . |
| 15 | Thus what at first appeared to be evidence in favour of one hypothesis might turn out to be evidence against it . |
| 16 | ‘ He might turn out to be set of sub-atomic particles bouncing around in a box in intelligent wave formations , ’ the Doctor fumed . |
| 17 | He had feared that Hope might turn out to be one of those weary and self-righteous young men who thought it witty to mock the great old institutions . |
| 18 | it might turn out to be cheaper |
| 19 | Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky . |
| 20 | I wonder if that final rock shelf might turn out to not be as sloping as we think it is . |
| 21 | " Well , you might turn out to be a nuisance to Edward . " |
| 22 | But grasses also have other enemies in the plant world , competitive weeds , which , if allowed to grow unchecked , might turn out to be even more severe enemies of grasses than cattle . |
| 23 | Let's say an Upper School boy , doing what might turn out to be a six week long project , he will mark it at the end of every session , well not mark it but assess it — which is slightly different — and staple little bits of paper on it with comments and suggestions , and so on . |
| 24 | With any luck this might turn out to be the workshop she was looking for ! |
| 25 | That might turn out to be wrong , but that would n't impugn the other data the stuff about , er proform substitutions and particularly erm the stuff about reflexive pronouns and polarity items , yeah , that 's why it 's not , it 's not actually crucial . |
| 26 | On the other hand , those might turn out to be right who think that man is responsible for but a very small part of the destruction of fish that is constantly going on ; and in that case a boat starting with equally good appliances and an equally efficient crew would be likely to get nearly as good a haul after the increase in the total volume of the fishing trade as before . |
| 27 | This means that those with more conventional tastes in hosiery ( and more substantial overheads ) are obliged to take ever-smaller profits while trying to stay ahead of the game and figure out what the next business-machine craze might turn out to be . |
| 28 | Admittedly some American liberals hoped that a moderate socialist government might turn out to be more progressive than British " Toryism " as understood across the Atlantic . |
| 29 | The random lump of cells might turn out to be an efficient burrower like a mole or an efficient climber like a monkey . |
| 30 | Some libraries want their own library group others are quite happy to be joined in with one or more libraries within the adjoining group and the constitution does in fact provide that investment wish what we have n't said what those who should be at maximum membership membership and to their claim will common sense not to make it too large otherwise it might turn out to be more than than sensible discussion among a reasonable amount of people but this but then to decide that equally to encourage them to ah find ways and means of the public other than library users who will be represented on the committee and to that . |