Example sentences of "[noun] do not prove " in BNC.
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| 1 | His religion did not prove a handicap , although his scrupulous conscience never made life easy for him , and his philosophy of broadcasting , set out in neat lectures , was very different from that of Greene , or of Baron Hill of Luton , his first chairman . |
| 2 | The data do not prove that the operation precedes the bowel dysfunction , and it is possible that women who are troubled by the symptoms of constipation are more likely to report gynaecological symptoms to their general practitioners . |
| 3 | On the whole , with certain exceptions — such as Egyptian cotton and Indian jute — these economic specialisations did not prove to be permanent , or else , where permanent , they did not develop on any scale comparable to that of the twentieth century . |
| 4 | unc These are equivalent , but the rule does not prove this because the left hand program is finite but is not weaker than any finite syntactic approximation to the right hand program . |
| 5 | At that time it was paying £3 per fathom but the vein did not prove to be worth following very far . |
| 6 | A barrister who left the Inland Revenue for practice at the Bar summed up his opinion of the service in the following words : ‘ I enjoyed it , they enjoyed me , and I would always consider returning if the Bar did not prove satisfying . ’ |
| 7 | This discovery did not prove to be particularly useful because the metabolite is a mycotoxin and mildly carcinogenic , illustrating that toxicological testing is just as important for natural products as it is for synthetic chemicals . |
| 8 | Equally , the presence of a pronoun does not prove a relationship . |
| 9 | Dieter did not prove a popular leader –many thought that he had accepted the Marienburger 's money a little too readily –and he was replaced by Wilhelm III , Prince of Altdorf and Elector Count of the Reikland . |
| 10 | But of course the science of our period did not prove this , though some scientists might wish it to . |
| 11 | The poll tax did not prove to be a good benefit-related tax . |
| 12 | The war did not prove particularly popular with the English nobility , who served when called upon to do so but gained little from it . |
| 13 | The fact that we find the use of such predicates convenient and essential for our purposes does not prove that they are indispensable in an absolute sense : viz. that the world as a matter of logic can not be completely described without them . |
| 14 | Similarly , the fact that the increases in the money supply precede increases in money incomes does not prove causality . |
| 15 | The main provision was that he would pay the countess an annuity of 500 marks for her life — an open-ended commitment which in the event did not prove particularly onerous since the countess died soon after Christmas 1475 . |
| 16 | The main provision was that he would pay the countess an annuity of 500 marks for her life — an open-ended commitment which in the event did not prove particularly onerous since the countess died soon after Christmas 1475 . |
| 17 | Before the Queen 's Bench , after a verdict for the defendant , on a motion that the evidence did not prove want of consideration and that , upon the evidence , the plaintiffs were entitled to a verdict . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , behind the crowd scenes that so mesmerized television , the day did not prove an overwhelming success for the TUC . |
| 19 | In June 1959 , however , the last performance occurred at the Chiswick Empire which was then pulled down and the site redeveloped as a tower office block , originally named ‘ Empire House ’ , but later that name did not prove acceptable to some local government officials , who considered that the name smacked of imperialism , so the block now has only numbers in Chiswick High Road . |
| 20 | Beautiful as the creature is , and instructive as the study of its behaviour has been , the octopus did not prove to be god 's organism for the elucidation of memory . |
| 21 | Unfortunately their quality did not prove to be high . |
| 22 | The selling of the trees did not prove the inconvenience at first feared . |
| 23 | The selling of the trees did not prove the inconvenience at first feared . |
| 24 | However , serum triglyceride levels did not prove to be a significant factor for coronary heart disease in this multivariate analysis and this is probably because of the correction made for the inverse relationship between triglycerides and HDL . |
| 25 | But , however suggestive it may be , the fact that a given phenomenon is successfully predicted by a theory does not prove the theory to be correct . |
| 26 | This argument does not prove that absolutely nothing is settled among American or British lawyers as a matter of genuine convention . |
| 27 | Even if FMS does not prove to be the critical target gene , characterisation of the microdeletions should considerably reduce the critical deleted region and provide a major step to identifying the real target gene . |
| 28 | But the simple mix of ring roads , precincts and a general improvement in the design of road junctions , and an adherence to standard highway widths , building lines and sight-lines did not prove adequate for long , although it was not until the 1960s that the opportunities for a radical revision of policy and method were presented . |
| 29 | But , as any competent undergraduate social scientist will tell you , correlation does not prove causation . |
| 30 | But the present existence of outgassing from the Earth 's interior does not prove that the Earth 's volatiles were initially deeply buried . |