Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only suggestion anyone has come up with is that what is special about 13 and 17 , as opposed to 14 , 15 and 16 , is that they are prime numbers . |
| 2 | What it came down to was that Erlich had one last evening as an independent , and that from first light , from waffles and coffee time , he 'd be part of their team and doing their bidding . |
| 3 | What it came down to was this : if I was going to do anything I was going to have to take on another part-time catering or cleaning job . |
| 4 | gave a lecture and all she came in with was some notes written out on some full scape paper and some papers for the over head projector |
| 5 | Quite apart from the fact that if all the girls he 'd ever dumped had had a go back he might have grown up to be less of a bastard . ’ |
| 6 | What he relied on , I think , and what he always came back to was that ‘ natural ’ self which he did not understand nor at this stage want to understand , but which gave him his power . |
| 7 | While it certainly can not be claimed to be a panacea for all ills , and no system of therapeutics has yet turned out to be that , it is an approach which I would not like to be without . |
| 8 | WHO would have thought that those Spandau Ballet boys would have turned out to be such fine thespians ? |
| 9 | You can imagine my relief now that it 's all over , and that it has turned out to be such a beautiful , conventional , dream wedding . |
| 10 | But the battalion did n't give him that many evenings off during the week , and if she did n't see him when he was free it often turned out to be several days before they could spend another evening together . |
| 11 | What might have seemed a revelation of God 's extraordinary generosity has turned out to be another expression of his terrible anger . |
| 12 | Mr Kaifu has turned out to be more of a winner than a cipher . |
| 13 | Curiously , in being less than art , the new ‘ cutting-edge ’ art has turned out to be more than art . |
| 14 | And what this actually came out on was this overall health and safety assessment that we 've been doing for G P erm , we 've actually just filed that overall group focused on the the branches as a potential issue and I know it 's been very su su successful on a number of times . |
| 15 | ‘ I know the words he came out with were those of other people , the writers , but they were written with him in mind . |
| 16 | Rupert Murdoch 's company is not turning out to be all the hype suggested it would . |
| 17 | The fighting which followed took place spasmodically as the moon emerged from behind a cloud or one side fired at the other 's musket flashes and the Battle of Clifton turned out to be little more than a skirmish . |
| 18 | Actually , although I said ‘ he ’ , when the body was examined it turned out to be that of a woman in male dress . |
| 19 | It was pale green , with a delicious new taste which turned out to be that of limes . |
| 20 | For his work with a host of musicians from Marian McPartland to Ruby Braff he has received many accolades , but one that we know he likes was made in the London Spectator recently : ‘ Tate turned out to be that rarity of rarities , a bass player whose contributions actually made musical sense . |
| 21 | That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered . |
| 22 | Clem Shaw , the maker of Channel 4 's film for Cutting Edge , told the Times : ‘ We thought we 'd be looking at lots of ramblers trampling over delicate areas , but it turned out to be much more of a social perspective than an environmental one ; more of a political issue than I 'd intended . ’ |
| 23 | As it was , our retreat turned out to be much more than that — it was a warm experience where we shared thoughts and feelings with others , and where our static everyday lives were challenged . |
| 24 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 25 | It turned out to be this cargo net . |
| 26 | And it turned out to be this Pekinese and when we went down there the lady was lovely and er we we interviewed her and we saw the Pekinese and we saw the Pekinese carry flower pots everywhere . |
| 27 | Wildcat then gave me a commission for what turned out to be Same Difference the following year . |
| 28 | ERIC CANTONA 'S marriage with Leeds turned out to be more of a passing fling . |
| 29 | It was the battle hymn of the striking coal miners in 1984 , and the old man used to sing it while he watched them fighting the police on the television , but it turned out to be another lost cause . |
| 30 | What looked like another fifty yards on the map turned out to be another quarter-mile of cart track . |