Example sentences of "[noun prp] turn out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomas turns out to be sexually as well as politically opportunistic , resulting in vengeance , desperation and a lot of emotional broken glass . |
| 2 | For the rest , Friday turned out to be a bad day at Blackrock with Graham losing twice and McHugh and the Clarendon triple skipped by Mark Shannon all falling at the first hurdle . |
| 3 | Becky turned out to be as good as her word , keeping the accounts in what she described as ‘ apple-pie order ’ and even opening a set of books for Trumper 's barrow . |
| 4 | The journey , however , proves to be a descent into hell , for Comala turns out to be a ghost town which has been devastated by the oppression of his father , the tyrannical landowner Pedro Páramo , and whose few remaining inhabitants live in despair , convinced that they have been banished forever from the grace of God . |
| 5 | Telephone Frank turns out to be not only a money expert , or an expert on not having any . |
| 6 | The problem he says is only that Mr Tijani turned out to be so ill , otherwise he came as a legitimate private patient . |
| 7 | The fact that Christopher turned out to be an east European too hardly caused a ripple in Jane . |
| 8 | She had given her kisses to a clown , he wrote , and was much gratified when MacBride turned out to be a drunken bully . |
| 9 | The campaign which Mortimer now led in Scotland turned out to be an ignominious fiasco . |
| 10 | Fearing the latter ( although all missiles fired as of the end of January turned out to be conventionally armed ) , the population was advised to don gas masks , and to take refuge until the all-clear sounded in sealed rooms which they had been instructed to prepare on the top floor of their homes . |
| 11 | March turned out to be the best of the six months with £5,438,860 of ‘ new money ’ being introduced . |
| 12 | Nor surprisingly the popular pro from Sheffield turned out to be a natural in his latest role as a BBC roving reporter , but any thoughts he might have had about changing career were dispelled when , seven days later , he climbed onto the winner 's rostrum at the Lancome after a closing round of 65 . |
| 13 | Davy and then Faraday turned out to be brilliant lecturers , holding large audiences for courses on scientific topics , each lecture being illustrated by experiments , often of a spectacular kind : Davy made a model volcano filled with potassium , and poured water into it ; and Faraday flung the fire irons and then the coal-scuttle to a large electromagnet overhead . |
| 14 | Ellen Hardcastle turned out to be a fourteen-year-old wisp of a girl with mousy hair and pale blue eyes . |
| 15 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 16 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 17 | The damage to the BMW turned out to be negligible , but Alison 's elderly Saab had suffered a broken headlight and badly buckled fender . |
| 18 | Martin turned out to be a delightful man ; I liked him instantly . |
| 19 | Montgomery Square turned out to be in that part of Pimlico which has not yet become fashionable again , though some of the houses at one end appeared to be newly painted . |
| 20 | Tom turned out to be a charming , polite , affable man , perhaps slightly exaggeratedly so in the counselling room , to cover up his embarrassment . |
| 21 | But Morris turned out to be completely uninterested in all three . |
| 22 | Louis turned out to be a pimp who worked several girls around the Gare du Nord . |
| 23 | THE UK TURNS OUT TO BE A BRIGHT SPOT IN THE TROUBLED SIEMENS NIXDORF EMPIRE |
| 24 | Tricia turned out to be one of the plumper members of the bodyguard and she kept hold of her ball-bearings . |
| 25 | All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching . |
| 26 | If , as was entirely possible , he found nothing and Vic turned out to be an innocent eccentric , this action would be inexcusable . |
| 27 | Lamont turned out to be an egotistical womaniser who had selfishly kept his marriage of twenty years intact ; Porter , a woman of integrity , now on her fourth marriage and deeply fond of both her disturbed children . |
| 28 | MY leisurely drive down the Antrim coast road last Sunday turned out to be anything but relaxing . |
| 29 | Far from being a one-street town , Sligo turned out to be a city , the centre criss-crossed with bright , lively shopping streets . |
| 30 | One of the Santas turned out to be Kim on a moonlight from Simon 's Boozebuster operation , but I promised not to tell . |