Example sentences of "it [vb mod] prove [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 2 | It may prove to be restrictive unless used very flexibly . |
| 3 | In the average home sized aquarium it may prove to be necessary to isolate a particularly large specimen as the risk of losing other fish from predation and poor water quality will be high . |
| 4 | Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo . |
| 5 | It was a bold experiment that is almost certain to be rewarded with full houses and , as the acoustics are to be softened , by tonight 's performance it might prove to be one of the better stagings . |
| 6 | He hoped — just hoped — it might prove to be conclusive . |