Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] turn [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 2 | The sounds were plaintive , resonant , doom-laden as those of a passing-bell , and she recognized even then — though she could not have found words to express it — that it would turn out thus , just as she had said . |
| 3 | It would be highly unlikely that it would turn out to be very interesting . |
| 4 | Its motion is characterized by an array of six whole numbers , one for each possible angle that it might turn through . |
| 5 | Other Unix suppliers are said to be treating the IBM-Hewlett-Packard effort very cautiously — some are worried that it may turn out to be a Trojan horse for proprietary technologies . |
| 6 | Other Unix suppliers are said to be treating the IBM/HP effort very cautiously — some are worried that it may turn out to be a trojan horse for proprietary technologies ( UX No 423 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ We are just hoping that it will turn out to be good news but I am terribly concerned for her . ’ |
| 8 | The trouble with life , it seems to me , is that it can turn out to be too late and you still have n't understood it . ’ |
| 9 | It 's the news that we knew that 's all that it could turn out to be , but it was just waiting to hear for it officially and going all through these months . |
| 10 | Of course the numbers would be limited , and it may turn out to be a load of crap what does anyone think ? |
| 11 | And it could turn out that the car I left on the Foulness road was stolen from a car park in Colchester or somewhere . |
| 12 | It seemed such a bizarre exchange after two decades of silence that he repeated her name — ‘ Sue ? ’ — as if it might turn out not to be her after all . |
| 13 | ‘ If it should turn out to be true that God did intend males to exhibit strength in leadership roles and females to excel more as the guardians of society 's emotional resources , why should this be viewed ipso facto as an evil arrangement ? ’ |
| 14 | If it should turn out that the individual in question is an Englishman , and not brave , then the implicature is mistaken , but the utterance , Grice suggests , need not be false . |
| 15 | Indeed , if it should turn out that the tropics are thermostatically stabilized , then changes in forcing which are associated with little change in dynamic heat flux are likely to cause very little global change . |
| 16 | In any case , if one insists on talking about knowledge , the question that will have to be answered sooner or later is what does constitute genuine knowledge , and if it should turn out , as it well might , that in defining the conditions of knowledge one has to make use of existential propositions of one sort or another , then the suggested reductivist paraphrase will not have achieved its purpose . |
| 17 | President Reagan 's Strategic Defense Initiative , announced in 1983 , has always been accompanied by a strong element of criticism of existing US nuclear policy , but it may turn out to be a good deal less than the promised means of freeing the world from the scourge of nuclear weaponry . |
| 18 | The nature of the right hemisphere 's contribution has yet to be determined precisely , but it may turn out that this half of the brain has a more elevated role to play than is customarily believed . |
| 19 | [ See Fig. 3 ] Remember the term , because it will turn up again in a rather odd context . |
| 20 | The call had been made in good faith : a car had looked as though it might turn over , but in the event it had not . |
| 21 | Ruby — whose name in Australopithese was Glubu — gave birth to a son , Krono , her only child as it would turn out . |