Example sentences of "it [vb mod] turn [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be that as it may , it may turn out that the preparedness not to acquiesce in any all-Ireland solution is decidedly stronger than most commentators until recently were prepared to accept , except for the work of Bew , Gibbon , and Patterson . |
| 2 | It may turn out to earn rather more than that in the semiconductor industry . |
| 3 | It may turn out to be one or two meetings only or a much longer period of time . |
| 4 | While this instrument is in a way value-neutral and may be used for ends of which different commentators may approve or disapprove , it may turn out to be — is indeed intended to be — a powerful force for overdue change , increased coherence and strengthened accountability . |
| 5 | President Reagan 's Strategic Defense Initiative , announced in 1983 , has always been accompanied by a strong element of criticism of existing US nuclear policy , but it may turn out to be a good deal less than the promised means of freeing the world from the scourge of nuclear weaponry . |
| 6 | If you write it yourself it may turn out to be invalid , or there may be legal ambiguities in what you thought were clear requests . |
| 7 | It may turn out that the distinctive features of a causal story associated with semantic content are precisely those that require the language of belief , desire and intention , in order for their isolation to have any point within the overall causal explanation of what happens when the speaker communicates with another . |
| 8 | It may turn out that the differences are an artefact of the methods used in different laboratories , but it is difficult to see what the relevant differences may be . |
| 9 | It may turn out that the somatosensory and visual systems are not organized in exactly the same ways . |
| 10 | Other Unix suppliers are said to be treating the IBM-Hewlett-Packard effort very cautiously — some are worried that it may turn out to be a Trojan horse for proprietary technologies . |
| 11 | Other Unix suppliers are said to be treating the IBM/HP effort very cautiously — some are worried that it may turn out to be a trojan horse for proprietary technologies ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 12 | In passages which resonate with the spirit of Bagehot , ‘ a man of genius ’ , Dicey argues that the ‘ rule of a party can not be permanently identified with the authority of the nation or with the dictates of patriotism ’ and that ‘ while popular government may be under wise leadership a good machine for simply destroying existing evils , it may turn out a very poor instrument for the construction of new institutions or the realisation of new ideals ’ The limitations in practice of his belief in ‘ democracy tempered by snobbishness ’ are finally conceded : |
| 13 | It may turn out not to be the final or the only unit of analysis but , even so , to contend that it were would not be so wildly wrong as treating America as fifty states without mentioning the Federal Government . |
| 14 | It may turn out that it is therefore a mistake to construe social science along the lines of natural science . |
| 15 | If teachers believe that the National Curriculum can widen curriculum opportunities for all , and commit themselves to this cause , then it may turn out to be so . |
| 16 | As more data accumulate it may turn out that there are in fact subtle differences and that these relate to the presence or degree of sinistrality in the patient 's family or to the position of the hand during writing ( see below ) . |
| 17 | The nature of the right hemisphere 's contribution has yet to be determined precisely , but it may turn out that this half of the brain has a more elevated role to play than is customarily believed . |
| 18 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 19 | It is possible to interpret data this way and , if independent evidence supports the dual process hypothesis , it may turn out to be the correct one . |
| 20 | Of course , it may turn out that what these empirical relationships show is that some or all of the original theories were wrong or , at least , insufficiently precise . |
| 21 | Of course if such an appeal is in effect a way of jettisoning the unexplained clause and opening the door to an explanation in terms of some other theory — say , a theory of relations — then it may turn out in the end to have been a step forward , but no credit can be claimed for the step until a reasonably clear , comprehensive , and persuasive account of the alternative theory has been presented . |
| 22 | Of course the numbers would be limited , and it may turn out to be a load of crap what does anyone think ? |
| 23 | kind of if you do , if you do manage to get some , some feedback on some of the stuff you 've done so far it may turn out that it was n't as bad as all that , you know |
| 24 | it may turn out that it has n't failed miserably but , you know , there may be various ways in which you could improve it which you might , you know , if you 're lucky he might have sort of written on , round the sides and round the edges and erm that 's you know kind of one of the things that you can build on erm you know a lot of |
| 25 | ‘ If it should turn out to be true that God did intend males to exhibit strength in leadership roles and females to excel more as the guardians of society 's emotional resources , why should this be viewed ipso facto as an evil arrangement ? ’ |
| 26 | If it should turn out that the individual in question is an Englishman , and not brave , then the implicature is mistaken , but the utterance , Grice suggests , need not be false . |
| 27 | Indeed , if it should turn out that the tropics are thermostatically stabilized , then changes in forcing which are associated with little change in dynamic heat flux are likely to cause very little global change . |
| 28 | In any case , if one insists on talking about knowledge , the question that will have to be answered sooner or later is what does constitute genuine knowledge , and if it should turn out , as it well might , that in defining the conditions of knowledge one has to make use of existential propositions of one sort or another , then the suggested reductivist paraphrase will not have achieved its purpose . |
| 29 | The call had been made in good faith : a car had looked as though it might turn over , but in the event it had not . |
| 30 | Its motion is characterized by an array of six whole numbers , one for each possible angle that it might turn through . |