Example sentences of "[adv] as it turn " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were grand boys and so courageous … maybe too much so as it turned out . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Aloysia 's father had died and Leopold ( rightly as it turned out ) suspected the motives of his matchmaking widow . |
| 6 | Then the great figure was gone , swallowed as soon as it turned , into the drifting dark . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll only get married once in my life , ’ she 'd said , inaccurately as it turned out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Only two of the industries nationalized by Labour were set free — road haulage and ( temporarily as it turned out ) steel . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | In the autumn of 1659 , when he was even appointed ( very briefly as it turned out ) to be a treasury commissioner , he was also elected an alderman of the City ; early the next year he was excused from this dignity owing to lack of means . |
| 16 | But Letitia stayed in touch , and together , sadly as it turned out , they had found family member Number Three . |
| 17 | The researchers dug out 50 metres each day , working from the threatened end with the aim of ‘ persuading ’ the four members of this badger social group — successfully as it turned out — to move to the part that would survive the road construction ( Journal of Zoology , vol. 225 , pp 115–24 ) . |
| 18 | In one of the longest and most turgid sentences on the statute book , Parliament provided , effectively as it turned out , that the Crown should pass to Sophia , Electress of Hanover ‘ and the Heirs of Her Body being Protestants ’ . |