Example sentences of "the [noun] proved [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the opportunity proved to be illusory . |
| 2 | The high acoustic quality of the recordings proved to be critical in such cases . |
| 3 | Enlightenment soon came — the youngsters proved to be Australian . |
| 4 | The return proved to be premature because the new Assembly was uneasy at his presence and , invoking the Law of Exile , which was still in force , invited the Prince to leave . |
| 5 | The schedules proved to be acceptable , Their major drawback was length , perhaps inseparable from comprehensiveness , and the fact that in this exercise they were not integrated with normal agency practice and statutory six-monthly reviews . |
| 6 | Although initially encouraging , the approach proved to be fruitless and both bodies made independent arrangements within separately developed policies which were to lead to disagreement over the Cambridge Board 's RAC scheme for liberal adult education throughout the region , and which is considered in the next section of this chapter . |
| 7 | After the financial troubles of that decade , though , a more businesslike approach was taken so that reserves were kept back to cover for lean years when the weather proved to be unkind . |