Example sentences of "[vb past] turn out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Afterwards Andy Roberts pointed out that the only ‘ alien implant ’ so far discovered turned out to be a ball bearing that had got lodged up a child 's nose . ) |
| 2 | Last quarter , the nearest station failed to turn out to 90 calls . |
| 3 | The opportunity which he seized turned out to his own detriment . |
| 4 | Yet the clutch of Highers and then the Ordinary MA with which I eventually emerged turned out to be a pretty useful preparation for a life in journalism . |
| 5 | So my job did turn out to be work after all . |
| 6 | Nervous though we were , it did turn out to be reasonably straightforward — but this was after all the beginners ' course and the ingredients had been prepared ; even the chives had been chopped . |
| 7 | But she would look rather a fool if it did turn out to be only one of the children from the village . |
| 8 | If the story did turn out to be true , though , I think he might be pushing his luck . |
| 9 | For once , the product had turned out to be even better than the advert . |
| 10 | It had turned out to be exactly as Charles had forecast , ‘ a gigantic , costly and splendid waste of time ’ . |
| 11 | McLeish grunted , feeling meanly triumphant that he had turned out to be right in his view that Francesca would not be able to sweep Tristram out of the hands of the New York police in quite the Napoleonic way she had assumed . |
| 12 | He had turned out to be a lame duck and limped out of her life . |
| 13 | The crazy guy , now at the bottom of the Baltic with his crew , had turned out to be a secret and tormented homosexual , a condition he had hidden under an apparently conventional marriage . |
| 14 | A challenge perhaps , but heaven knows what Mr Donovan 's fans would have done with their bedroom posters if he had turned out to be gay . |
| 15 | The villa had turned out to be a converted barn featuring renovated stone walls , distressed oak furniture , and a large resident population of rats , bats , wasps , flies , spiders and cockroaches , all of which strongly resented our intrusion into their habitat . |
| 16 | Jesus , that woman had turned out to be the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 17 | And then the last time ; that had turned out to be a walk on the wild side . |
| 18 | The bipartisan commitment to the existing exchange rate within the ERM , and the endorsement of this by most commentators , would be understandable if the forecasts that the Treasury , the City and all the main conjuncture organisations have been making ever since we joined the ERM had turned out to be anywhere near correct . |
| 19 | As the Gnostics feared , God had turned out to be on the wrong side . |
| 20 | ‘ I said how disappointing it was that her annus mirabilis had turned out to be an annus horribilis . |
| 21 | Some mountaineer Würstie had turned out to be . |
| 22 | And proof that an informant had indeed reached Edward from the town was provided by the fact that the emissaries now demanded that the required hostage should be none other than Seton 's own son , a young man whom he had brought with him to Berwick on his first military venture , unfortunate a start as this had turned out to be . |
| 23 | She had just had painful surgery to remove an ovarian cyst that had turned out to be benign . |
| 24 | But if they backed Sutton at least they stood a chance of controlling him — even if he had turned out to be , as some thought , a bit of a duffer . |
| 25 | Aggie had explained to Ben what had turned out to be the reason for their invitation to tea ; and now she broke into his silence by saying , ‘ Well ! |
| 26 | This particular example demonstrated a common pitfall of this kind of positivist criminology : even if all the possessors of the chromosomal anomaly had turned out to be persistent criminals ( in the event , they did not ) then it would still only have been capable of ‘ explaining ’ a fraction of 1 per cent of recorded crime , simply because the condition was so rare . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath . |
| 28 | Molly 's mother , married for her beauty , had turned out to be a solemn and conventional woman , alternately angry and exhausted . |
| 29 | It had turned out to be a strange sort of holiday . |
| 30 | Granted that it had turned out to be only too easy to make experiments in which training an animal on some task results in large biochemical and cellular changes in its brain , I felt that it was necessary to establish guidelines to help judge whether any particular change indeed has these characteristics of necessity , sufficiency and specificity . |