Example sentences of "to turn out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not their only misinterpretation or a highly complex personality , but it was to turn out to be a very serious one as events were shortly to prove . |
| 2 | She hoped this was n't going to turn out to be a mistake . |
| 3 | Her father had wanted her to turn out to be something exotic , an actress perhaps , or even , in the camera-obsessed sixties , a model , and he could n't conceal his disappointment at the growth of a big-boned daughter who seemed without ambition . |
| 4 | ( The grammar is also one of reassurance : with the object positioned second , the beloved is n't suddenly going to turn out to be someone different . ) |
| 5 | If one area were to turn out to be a tax haven , property and house prices would rise ( capitalizing the favourable tax bill ) in this area , so reducing its . |
| 6 | The skies appeared to contain little that would have startled older astronomers , apart from a host of new observations by means of more powerful telescopes and measuring instruments ( both largely German developments ) and the use of the new technique of photography , as well as spectroscopic analysis , first applied to the light of the stars in 1861 , which was to turn out to be an enormously powerful tool of research . |
| 7 | Last quarter , the nearest station failed to turn out to 90 calls . |
| 8 | But there were almost nine hundred malicious calls , which cost the brigade over a million pounds to turn out to . |