Example sentences of "turn out not to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bright sword and kingly face turn out not to be critical . |
| 2 | Mail-order plants that turn out not to be the ones ordered are tiresome enough , but when they are labelled as the plant ordered , and are not that plant , it is particularly irritating . |
| 3 | The overlap between tort and contract should be looked for particularly in problems involving the negligent carriage of passengers by rail , road or sea , and the sale ( or repair ) of goods or houses that turn out not to be of merchantable quality or reasonably fit and that cause physical injury to the buyer ( or owner ) . |
| 4 | It may even be , if the young people involved broadly adopt the ‘ parent ’ culture , that they turn out not to be imperatives at all . |
| 5 | On the very exceptional occasions when only two instruments of a kind are mentioned in livrets , these turn out not to be part of a mixed ensemble , but some kind of special effect . |