Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In nine cases out of ten it turns out to be the office cleaner 's milkman 's financial adviser . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A lion which at the beginning of the book seems as though it might just be an escaped animal from a nearby zoo turns out to be the great Lion of Strength . |
| 4 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 5 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 6 | The problem turns out to be the boss of the club , who says we must pay $8 if the girls are to leave . |
| 7 | A parcel from London recently landed on my desk with what turns out to be the best analysis of it , Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution by Professor R W Davies of Birmingham University 's Centre for Russian and East European Studies ( Macmillan , hardback £29.50 , paperback £7.99 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ If this turns out to be the lady we 're looking for , she was engaged to a Treasury Minister , who called in my guv'nor . ’ |
| 9 | The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend … |
| 10 | This in fact turns out to be the case , as will be shown here and in the following chapters . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , whatever the particular historical form the law of labour expenditure takes , be it patriarchal , slave-owning , feudal , capitalist or communist it ‘ turns out to be the compulsory and universal regulator of economic life . ’ |
| 12 | Strange how what you regard at the time as being your downfall , often turns out to be the making of you . |
| 13 | You may be a sign that avoids deep , dark and passionate waters but often what you most fear turns out to be the best thing for you . |
| 14 | One turns out to be the Greek Revival Sheriff Courthouse ( 1841 ) in the centre of Glasgow , which is an unprecedented gesture on the part of this Edinburgh-based institution towards is traditional rival , Glasgow , the rough-tough merchant city which has so improved its image over the last ten years through an enlightened cultural policy . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's just say , Mr Newman , that in so many murder enquiries the culprit turns out to be the person who discovered the body . |
| 16 | It 's opening leads one to expect a knowing , ‘ insider ’ political novel , but it turns out to be the story of a destructive sexual passion , complete with purple passages , the saga of a successful man who becomes obsessed with his son 's mistress , who is only too willing to oblige . |
| 17 | The software that handles index building and additions can operate on the keys separately , while the size of the gap between key and data allows the data record to be transferred into main storage if it turns out to be the required record after examination of the key by the control unit . |
| 18 | And yet it turns out to be the same old stuff only worse , more , again , further . |
| 19 | The resemblance is strengthened by the fact that the surface gravity turns out to be the same at all points on the event horizon , just as the temperature is the same everywhere in a body at thermal equilibrium . |
| 20 | But whether serial or parallel processing turns out to be the way the brain works ( there will be more to say about this too in the next chapters ) , there will be cellular events associated with both the short-term and the long-term phase , and we have to try to distinguish between them experimentally . |
| 21 | So I map out a route over familiar country near home which takes in some old hedges and one-time mushroom pastures , hoist a gathering bag over my shoulder — and then curse the fact that the mid-October day that I have carefully planned for this expedition turns out to be the most dismal of the autumn so far . |
| 22 | In murder mysteries , it is always the least suspicious person who turns out to be the killer . |
| 23 | On closer examination , however , most of this turns out to be the product , not of reasoned consideration and reflection , but merely of some political manoeuvre or party attitude . |
| 24 | ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ . |
| 25 | The pagan , who with his tattoos and shrunken heads appears to be a terrible savage in the beginning , turns out to be the most noble character in the novel . |
| 26 | A suitable plane at these parameter values turns out to be the plane , which includes C+ , and the return map obtained , for r-values just less than and just greater than , is shown schematically in Fig. 6.7 . |
| 27 | The disruptive rhetorical structure in this case turns out to be the undecidability between inside and outside worlds within the figure of metaphor . |
| 28 | We , like the Chancellor , hope that turns out to be the case . ’ |
| 29 | If that turns out to be the case , Chalmers hopes to be back in action before the end of the season , and that would certainly lead to a standby spot . |
| 30 | Ah , erm , but , do you think that , sorry , do you think the appraisal itself , because it 's an annual event , er , some branch managers will get to you with what turns out to be the performance review , and therefore , not doing it during the year , because of the appraisal ? |