Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week Kevin Morris from Cheltenham set off to be the 424th and the very first to do it backstroke . |
| 2 | But Lennie Lawrence is shaping up to be the complete club manager . |
| 3 | They were completely unworldly and thus brought us up to be the same . |
| 4 | The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers do describe a number of fruit fools , fools made from gooseberries , raspberries , strawberries , redcurrants , apples , mulberries , apricots , even from fresh figs ; but few of these dishes turn out to be the simple cream-enriched purées we know today . |
| 5 | From his digs at 113 Cowley Road , Thomas wrote his first letter to Harry Hooton : ‘ My dear Mr. Hooton , I matriculated today before the Vice-Chancellor of the University , and , in consequence , I am left a little freer of time and heart : for until then , I feared failure in what turned out to be the easy matric. exam. , and worked to the exclusion of almost all else : which is the explanation of time and heart . ’ |
| 6 | His worst mistake was at the Ministry of Labour , which , foreseeably , turned out to be the crucial sector of his Government 's battlefront . |
| 7 | That chimney turned out to be the only delicate part of the building and scaffolding had to be erected so that it could be rebuilt . |
| 8 | ‘ Gary and I had said ‘ no more ’ after the problems with the first two but it turned out to be the real turning point for me . |
| 9 | The fire , which turned out to be the real thing and not the gas imitation she feared , gave out a welcoming warmth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On arrival in Johannesburg , the first thing I noticed was a young , fresh , smiling face , who turned out to be the Second Secretary at the Consulate . |
| 12 | It is possible to interpret data this way and , if independent evidence supports the dual process hypothesis , it may turn out to be the correct one . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On what turned out to be the final day , Salisbury , having relished an hour in the heat of battle , was lbw , yorked , by a big Akram inswinger , and thereafter a wicket fell every 18 minutes ; 17 in all ; some through the caprice of the pitch , some through frailty , most because of devastatingly purposeful bowling . |
| 15 | But it turned out to be the right decision . ’ |
| 16 | Freud always regarded anxiety as normal , but the erm , many of his colleagues did n't , and , and Anna Freud erm admits that er , experience proved that er , her father 's original view turned out to be , turned out to be the right one . |
| 17 | this turned out to be the standard stuff of innumerable intelligence reports , as Carrington got to know them better . |
| 18 | ’ 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Hodsgon was the first to go … bowled by Base for 25 … and that turned out to be the joint top score |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | For the Aplysia group , the first neurochemical task was to identify the transmitter involved in signalling between the two cells , which turned out to be the ubiquitous substance serotonin ( sometimes called 5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT ) . |
| 22 | It could be the figure will turn out to be the low point of the trend , although if the pound continues to strengthen , that 'll be good news for the government 's control over inflation . |
| 23 | In seminars held there last Thursday and Friday two groups of scientists announced what may turn out to be the first evidence of CERN 's greatest discovery yet , a particle known simply by the letter W. If proven the discovery will vindicate all those who pushed for the means to make it possible . |
| 24 | So , as I have recounted already , there came into being The Perfect Murder , which turned out to be the first of my books to be published in America . |
| 25 | Our second day turned out to be the wettest and coldest . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm relieved to see slow-dancing with me has n't turned out to be the traumatic experience you obviously feared . ’ |
| 27 | A field discovered following the controversial opening up of the Santa Maria basin off California could turn out to be the largest discovered since the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska but the most stringent efforts will do no more than mitigate an inevitable production decline . |
| 28 | In this case the same precautions apply and it is even more important to deal with ownership of copyright otherwise the agency ( as employer ) could turn out to be the ultimate owner of the copyright . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |