Example sentences of "turns out " in BNC.

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1 It turns out that real life rhymes , that the revolution wishes its poetry to do so .
2 Then it turns out that Patrick rather likes it after all .
3 But then it turns out that the female lead , his wife Jenny Standish ( née Bunn ) , unreservedly cherishes their cat .
4 With his brigade of six , he turns out daily changing menus which include noisettes of lamb with herb mousse and lentils ; penne pasta with sun-dried tomatoes , olives and oregano ; and escalope of halibut with courgette ribbons .
5 According to functionalism , it turns out that the appropriate level of description is the same as that which characterizes folk psychology , the psychological theory that ordinary people use when predicting and explaining the behaviour of their fellow human beings in the course of their everyday lives .
6 This work is described as a personal celebration of the mountains and landscapes of Nepal , but it turns out to be a pictorial account of six treks and climbs in the more popular areas of the country .
7 But masked first-person narrative turns out to be deflected stream of consciousness — ‘ He was not really afraid ’ will only transpose into ‘ I 'm not really afraid ’ flitting through his head as he passes the landlady 's open kitchen door — so that the past tense collapses into the present , and we find we have put our finger on something pertinent to the novel 's urgency and attack and ( to borrow Andrew Forge 's ugly but useful key-term for late Monet ) its frontality .
8 But the notion of an instrument turns out to be as empty as his posturing .
9 When this and the regeneration/resurrection theme are brought to bear upon the remark about Bazarov and the 1840s , what seemed a difference of degree turns out to be one of a kind .
10 Stepan Verkhovensky 's naked transcendental ‘ They wo n't let you ’ turns out to be a very suitable preface to a logical joke about time and identity .
11 In nine cases out of ten it turns out to be the office cleaner 's milkman 's financial adviser .
12 Prudently taking cognisance of onlookers also turns out to be important in the social behaviour of other primates .
13 THE promising first episode of The Paradise Club ( BBC 1 ) turns out to have been , if not actually lying , then at least telling some fibs .
14 Why does blood seep from her son ? ’ runs the grisly ballad that tells the true story of a woman in 18th century Ireland , sentenced to death for the murder of a young gentleman who turns out to be the long-lost product of her liaison with the English gentry .
15 But this flashback turns out not to represent a memory , or at least not Pistol 's memory , since King-to-be Henry repudiates him in voice-over , without Hal 's lips moving , though Falstaff reacts as if the words were spoken aloud .
16 The news from California of the death of history now turns out to have been exaggerated .
17 Three papers published recently in Science move us a little closer to understanding the basis of the disease , which turns out to be highly complex .
18 But they will only do this , it turns out , if you 're 19 and just going to college .
19 This can not be said of the colourful house , which turns out to be as likeable as its architect .
20 But in a piece where every idea is disposable , very little turns out to be memorable .
21 It turns out that The Vision of Elena Silves operates on a more secular footing , but its meditation on the transcendence of human love over the coercions of church and state is a quietly compelling achievement .
22 This is a particular case of a general rule about Greenaway 's films : that only a person as obsessionally preoccupied with formal patterns as the director — and that is a tall order — can properly share his shock when death turns out not to be deterred by lists and games after all .
23 Perhaps not very surprisingly , it turns out to have been pure hell - brutality intensified by stupidity .
24 The prince among the four ex-presidents turns out to be Jimmy Carter .
25 Robson tires of pointing out that England always have a spare man , but unfortunately this often turns out to be Gary Stevens , an orthodox full-back , perhaps incorrigibly so .
26 But this time , it turns out he was telling the truth .
27 A snow bunting twitters away to my left , laughing — as it turns out — at what is about to happen next , when I find that the volcanic dish is shallow and filled with grass and wind-blown rubbish .
28 The vegetation turns out to be more sparse than we had imagined .
29 Or if there is , he turns out to be impossible to live with , ’ she says .
30 This unusual experience turns out to be informative and fun .
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