Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have seen an egg broken into a frying pan of hot fat so that it turns from a clear fluid into a rubbery opaque solid , you are inclined to believe that this is quite a good way to cook an egg . |
| 2 | So if it turns out to be a Glaucous , he has imported something without permission . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , these arguments do not constitute a definitive refutation of inductivism , especially as it turns out that many rival theories of science face a similar , related difficulty . |
| 4 | They were grand boys and so courageous … maybe too much so as it turned out . |
| 5 | The paramilitaries felt , quite rightly as it turned out , that the politicians would use them when it suited them and then reject them once the threat of anarchy had achieved the desired end of bringing down Brian Faulkner . |
| 6 | It was assumed in Paris , rightly as it turned out , that Queen Victoria would add her powers of dissuasion to all those who opposed the idea and that the combined opposition would convince Napoleon III that his plan was dangerous and unnecessary . |
| 7 | Aloysia 's father had died and Leopold ( rightly as it turned out ) suspected the motives of his matchmaking widow . |
| 8 | What would it prove anyway if it turned out that there was a man and that man was Connon ? |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , for some reason Heather wanted to know all about the last time Clare had been here , which , as it happened , I remembered very well , not just because it turned out to be the last I ever saw of her , but on account of something odd that had occurred . |
| 10 | His statement hung like an arrow in the air , just before it turns and begins its fatal descent . |
| 11 | Then the great figure was gone , swallowed as soon as it turned , into the drifting dark . |
| 12 | Moreover , though married to Osthryth , sister of King Ecgfrith ( HE IV , 21 ) , in 679 or 680 Aethelred fought against the northern Anglian king and by a victory on the Trent , in which battle Ecgfrith 's brother , Aelfwine , was slain , secured Lindsey — permanently as it turned out — for the Mercians ( HE IV , 12 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll only get married once in my life , ’ she 'd said , inaccurately as it turned out . |
| 14 | Its jaws open wide and it turns aggressive , far more eager than usual to attack , bite and sting any moving object . |
| 15 | Champneys was one of a number of prominent London instrument-makers who brought a petition against Peter Dollond [ q.v. ] in 1764 to annul ( unsuccessfully as it turned out ) the achromatic lens patent which had been granted to Dollond 's father in 1758 . |
| 16 | Only two of the industries nationalized by Labour were set free — road haulage and ( temporarily as it turned out ) steel . |
| 17 | Advantages : The grill is well positioned in one corner of the roof of the oven and browns food evenly as it turns on the turntable — excellent for cooking dishes such as lasagne and cauliflower cheese . |
| 18 | ‘ Not even if it turns out to be an intruder ? ’ asked Pascoe . |
| 19 | Hence , Freeman is refuted since presumably other explanations are conceivable , even if it turns out they are n't very interesting . |
| 20 | It must take him at least half an hour to get to the point of the flash and back to his own bank , even if it turned out to be a wild goose chase and he was able to return immediately . |
| 21 | This is not to be encouraged , particularly if it turns out that only some of numerous partners have actually signed the paper . |
| 22 | Those are gon na be redirected in here erm as well but it turns out that erm those two types roughly equate to forty out of two thousand which is half a , half a percent ? |
| 23 | ‘ I was a bit nervous beforehand but it turned out to be very easy , ’ said Personal Account Manager Anita Cooper . |
| 24 | So the saving that we were going to make them , by reducing five per cent but increasing the lancer machine bearings and bumping this standard cost one up to well as it turned out , seventeen per cent margin . |
| 25 | They work it all out for the next weeks , even though it turns out Paul has forgotten the Tipp-Ex . |
| 26 | Lambeth Council in London banned a book , Midnight Circus , on the grounds that ‘ most carers ’ disapprove of circuses , and the presentation of an ape as the baddie not only raises issues of animal rights but has racial overtones — even though it turns out that the ape is really a white woman in disguise . |
| 27 | He was shadowed everywhere in Sheffield , and he looked back on the experience as his most annoying transfer hid — particularly as it turned out to be one of his rare failures . |
| 28 | ‘ But I 'm too hungry to think about it , so let's eat it first , and then if it turns out to be wrong to eat it , I promise to be very sorry . ’ |
| 29 | Deprived — fortunately as it turned out , for otherwise he would have had no spare time at all — of the pleasures of the rugby field , he played a little squash and tennis ( developing his ‘ cannonball serve : that 's all you need , see : they never get it back ’ ) and ‘ chatting up ’ . |
| 30 | Then we talked to Miguel again and it turned out the Indian had started this long conversation with him before we could possibly have had the accident . |