Example sentences of "[vb -s] out to [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 're expecting jam and it turns out to be marmalade it 's quite a shock . |
| 2 | The failure of this CR sometimes to show a loss with change of context ( and the fact that sometimes the CR is enhanced by such a change ) turns out to be evidence in favour of the proposal that appropriate contextual cues can foster the retrieval of associative information . |
| 3 | In the Forest of Fangorn Gimli the dwarf wants Legolas the elf ( both companions of Frodo ) to kill an old wandering man but Legolas takes pity on him and again the right decision is made , the old man turns out to be Gandalf whom they thought was dead . |
| 4 | Perhaps not the literal truth ( it is unlikely that Jane Eyre , the unloved orphan , should come into a fortune and gain mastery over Rochester who was once her master or that Pip should be ‘ raised from his station ’ by a mysterious benefactor , who turns out to be Magwitch , the convict he once fed ) , but what Henry James called ‘ the truth of the imagination ’ . |
| 5 | Burke falls for Sillas and loses interest in locating father which upsets Sage , he wanders off on his own and runs across young Romanian epileptic Elina ( Elina Lowensohn ) who bizarrely turns out to be pater 's juvenile mistress . |
| 6 | Where diarrhoea is due to food sensitivity , in infants and children , the culprit food often turns out to be cow 's milk . |
| 7 | Turns out to be flesh and blood after all . |
| 8 | He crushed them up But this powder turns out to be Soneryl . ’ |