Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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1 | IN THE words of the Gaullist leader , Jacques Chirac , France 's eagerly awaited new government has turned out to be the former Rocard government minus Michel Rocard . |
2 | A noise at 44,000 miles turned out to be the early warning of a catastrophic failure as , over the next 4,000 miles the rollers chewed their way 5mm into the front pump housing causing a gradual loss of power steering . |
3 | Actually , John nearly went to England much sooner than turned out to be the case . |
4 | In fact , the way I had instinctively started to limp turned out to be the best : a short step on the left heel with the leg stiff and a long springing step on the right . |
5 | Jesus , that woman had turned out to be the biggest mistake of his life . |
6 | Although Stan was older and previously dominant , by virtue of being the only dog , he had not turned out to be the natural leader of he pair . |
7 | The one noise they could not eliminate turned out to be the echo of the Big Bang . |
8 | Unemployment and inflation have increased in one country after another and two of the most volatile and destabilising elements in our economies have turned out to be the size of the public sector deficit and the rate of growth of the money supply . |
9 | 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 ! |
10 | These turned out to be the basic difficulties facing the BFASS in the 1840s and 1850s . |
11 | The Appeal Court 's rejection of an order banning an abusing father from the family home has turned out to be the most controversial decision under the Children Act since its introduction . |
12 | Parental attitudes , like early physical-care practices , have not turned out to be the clear-cut determinants of personality development one had hoped for . |
13 | By an incredible coincidence , the day in 1986 when Simon proposed to Hilary also turned out to be the day he got his breakthrough with Radio One . |
14 | Their decision made no sense because , at the end of the day , no solution could be evolved with which she did not agree — as indeed turned out to be the case . |
15 | But then , dear Lizzie , for all the money — and it was reputed to be in millions — that her late husband had left her , had never known how to dress ; nor did any of the tribe of Braithwaites sitting around her , who had clearly chosen whatever had turned out to be the most expensive and put it on their large , angular bodies just anyhow . |
16 | The new maisonettes have turned out to be the most unusual and attractive living spaces . |
17 | ‘ I 'm relieved to see slow-dancing with me has n't turned out to be the traumatic experience you obviously feared . ’ |
18 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
19 | He was made out to be the bad guy playing against Seve , especially after one of their clashes at Wentworth in the World Matchplay , but I do n't know . |
20 | He said : ‘ I was made out to be the bad guy . |
21 | Then the object of the action is turned round to be the subject of the verb " This report was written by us " It seems to be accepted that impartiality and an impersonal flavour to the report are achieved by the use of the passive voice . |
22 | Sometimes he was roped in to be the MC at these dances , which , for those who know only disco dancing , means Master of Ceremonies , and it was he who announced that the next dance would be a waltz , or a foxtrot , and was not supposed to dance himself until everyone else was on the floor . |
23 | Such a curriculum had served well , and did so for many years afterwards , that small percentage ( less than 10$ ) who enjoyed grammar school education and were marked out to be the leaders of the nation . |
24 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
25 | But on privatization , they were split off to be the watchdog for what we put into the rivers . |