Example sentences of "[noun pl] turn [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A suitable plane at these parameter values turns out to be the plane , which includes C+ , and the return map obtained , for r-values just less than and just greater than , is shown schematically in Fig. 6.7 . |
| 2 | The knumdrum where the people have gone has now been answered because the amount of domiciliary care needed to keep them out of residential places to meet their needs and wishes turns out to be very much less than we expected , on average less than seven hours a week . |
| 3 | Thus , on closer inspection , the issue of the ‘ underachievement ’ of black pupils in British schools turns out to be rather complex . |
| 4 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 5 | In the event , these anomalies turned out to be due to radioactivity ; but the point is that conservation principles are not readily falsifiable . |
| 6 | Of course , in retrospect , the decision to close down Ryde and Sandown and the cost of the new offices turned out to be a major contributory factor to the problems that we now find ourselves in . |
| 7 | ‘ The fact that Lombroso 's stigmata turned out to be no more common among criminals than among any other section of the community ( see Wolfgang , 1960 ) , although often thought to be a refutation of his theory , is in fact not crucial to it . |
| 8 | No , it is all due to the faithful old Sun going through it usual cycle of activity and the so called dragons turn out to be early sightings of aurorae . |
| 9 | A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists ; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious , corrupt , cynical and generally ‘ nauseating … these saintly people , living off the fat of the land , try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal ! ’ |
| 10 | It seems to me that this passage describes the way loving relationships turn out to be for Hegel . |
| 11 | And did the lads turn out to be very nice ? |
| 12 | With the scripts turned over to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick some of the earliest discussions centred around the form and shape of these Dalek survivors . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , we later discovered , the builder who was working on these kennels turned out to be an absolute cowboy . |
| 14 | In a turbulent economy , the planning and control functions turned out to be mutually incompatible . |
| 15 | People who had said — during another part of the interview — that they preferred the smallest possible individual instalments turned out to be just as likely to switch to a shorter repayment schedule ( given lower APR and credit costs ) as people who had said they preferred the shortest possible repayment schedule . |
| 16 | An increase in livestock , and larger areas turned over to rice production , are possible contributors to this effect ; a smaller contribution could come from termites . |
| 17 | There were two reasons for interview failure other than refusals ; first , residents were sometimes too old or incapacitated to be interviewed , and second , many of the listed addresses in inner-city areas turned out to be demolished or boarded up . |
| 18 | The whole operation of recognizing the bravery of the Italians who had helped prisoners-of-war turned out to be an utter disaster , not only in Eric 's area but throughout the country . |
| 19 | All the temples were totally demolished during the Roman period , probably by Christian iconoclasts , and the sites turned over to industrial use . |
| 20 | As soon as the urban context is broken down even into such crude categories as social class , age or ‘ interests ’ , processes which seemed to be peculiar to particular urban areas turn out to be determined by other factors . |
| 21 | Toiling up the slope from Falmer railway station , you had the Kafkaesque sensation of walking into an endlessly deep stage set where apparently three-dimensional objects turned out to be painted flats , and reality receded as fast as you pursued it . |
| 22 | But the ‘ blaze ’ seen by Leicestershire cops turned out to be amber lights shining through steam at a factory near Grantham , Lincs . |
| 23 | By contrast , purchases bought with credit cards and shop accounts turned out to be less expensive than planned for more people than average . |
| 24 | Even in such a simple organism as L. casei , the interactions turned out to be very complex , far beyond those of a single enzyme system and full of ‘ inviting pitfalls for unwary investigators ’ . |
| 25 | In this one the ugly old lady with birds turned out to be his friend . |
| 26 | The Romanian products turned out to be near-worthless . |
| 27 | All these opinions turned out to be mistaken . |
| 28 | To my surprise , bad debts turned out to be more common in Chelsea than in Whitechapel . |
| 29 | Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story . |
| 30 | The " morsel of bread ; offered to the guests turns out to be a meal of fresh cakes , curds and milk , and the best veal . |