Example sentences of "what turn out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Your life has just begun and you 're walking across what turns out to be Salisbury Plain . |
| 3 | And the idea of this technique is you take er a erm a chamber which is split into two compartments by a teflon partition , shown here , you fill the two compartments with an aqueous solution , okay , and you can then paint across a small hole in this Teflon partition a solution of phospholipids in a solvent , for example endecaine and when these phospholipids are painted across the er solv the er the small hole in the Teflon partition the solvent collects , here I 've magnified it , collects around er the the edges of the hole , and leaves you with a what turns out to be a simple bilayer , a phospholipid bilayer . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Piers had set up the garden table and two benches , and they had what turned out to be a very edible meal under the fading sun , with a magnificent view overlooking the still blue sea , with all the night noises playing a symphony around them . |
| 6 | He dismissed this as irrelevant and his use of metaphor , in what turned out to be an eighty-minute interview , was most revealing . |
| 7 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 8 | The hydrofoil left Narvik in the early evening bound for Svolvær , on what turned out to be one of the loveliest journeys I have ever taken . |
| 9 | My father had bought the farm at an auction , at what turned out to be an inflated price . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I called Koons at his home in Munich during what turned out to be a temporary separation . |
| 12 | ‘ They made a nice comeback but tactically we were in fine shape and that 's what turned out to be the winning move . ’ |
| 13 | But , as it happens , I took no advice at all before embarking on what turned out to be a disturbing exploration of my own personality . |
| 14 | In the light of this and a vivid description of an unexpected home delivery to my husband — we were taking no chances — and I was rushed to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital , with 5 minute contractions , the evening before the 2nd Estimated Day Delivery with what turned out to be a false alarm ! |
| 15 | The temple sits some fifty feet down in its own huge sandpit , buried for centuries until someone tripped over what turned out to be the top of a pillar . |
| 16 | They stood with their backs to what turned out to be a mud-built shack on the left . |
| 17 | They were welcomed by teacher Mark O'Callaghan and pupils David Lloyd , Claire Linney , Sarah Curry and Jay Kaminski for what turned out to be an even contest with everything depending on the final question . |
| 18 | When James Callaghan accelerated the debate in 1976 , the quality of discussion was indeed raised , in what turned out to be the Schools Council 's declining years , under the combined influence of the Chair , John Tomlinson , and the Secretary , John Mann . |
| 19 | Wildcat then gave me a commission for what turned out to be Same Difference the following year . |
| 20 | Visible streams of what turned out to be high frequency radiation flowed from the output lead and burnt out all the de-capped car headlamps we could find ! |
| 21 | After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers . |
| 22 | As we drew closer , I could see that she was whispering endearments and repeatedly kissing what turned out to be a mature , sleek , brown rat . |
| 23 | Not only did the king have a spare hour for what turned out to be an excellent interview in the palace gardens , but on learning that there was now no plane to take us home until Monday , laid on two helicopters to take us all on a Sunday outing to Petra ( the ‘ rose red city half as old as time ’ ) , then on to Aqaba on the Red Sea for lunch and a swim , and home across the desert and the black tents of the Bedouins in the evening . |
| 24 | Here , a British chain store reproduced my original designs in what turned out to be a very successful venture . |
| 25 | He was suspicious because they were unloading what turned out to be stolen property at a friend 's flat . |
| 26 | In July 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev , speaking in the great Pacific port of Vladivostok — the name means ‘ Rule the East ’ — made what turned out to be a seminal address displaying the Soviets ' keen interest in the region . |
| 27 | The organizers would like to thank all those who took part in what turned out to be a really enjoyable and exciting event and would like to congratulate the winners in each of the categories . |
| 28 | The Times and Sunday Times closed down in dispute , for what turned out to be a whole year . |
| 29 | In fact , in cobbling together what turned out to be a crudely progressive scheme of taxation , government and parliament can not have been unaware that they were evolving a fiscal taxonomy which corresponded to the main divisions of society . |
| 30 | 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 . |