Example sentences of "[coord] it have proved " in BNC.

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1 Because the Times price cut was so large , no-one 's sure if its gains are due to the publicity , or it 's proved wrong the conventional wisdom about quality newspaper pricing .
2 The substance upon which Longivex was based was scarce — located so far on only two worlds of the surveyed systems — and it had proved impossible to manufacture a synthetic substitute which did not possess deadly side effects .
3 Control of money supply ( M3 ) has been erratic , and it has proved difficult to establish a relationship between the changes in M3 and the fall in inflation .
4 It has retained the strong legs and good feet of a draught animal , so that it can travel long distances over rough terrain on the range , and it has proved able to withstand the stress of drought better than other Bos taurus breeds .
5 With a few exceptions , insectivores are much less commonly represented in pellet assemblages , and lagomorphs even less so , and it has proved impossible to obtain large enough samples of these species to provide numerical data .
6 In 1977 , the State of Oregon launched its famous resource conservation scheme , and it has proved highly popular for the state politicians in Oregon .
7 Dose assessment : The account of dose calculation contained in Urquhart 's article does not allow the method he used to be completely understood , and it has proved to be impossible to obtain the ‘ fuller version ’ of the article , either from the Journal of Nuclear Information .
8 We have started mini-rugby in Nairobi and it has proved very successful .
9 And it has proved that the man on the street is not suffering compassion fatigue .
10 There are difficulties in these techniques and it has proved more effective most of the time to use techniques which involve perception rather than direct interference with brain processes .
11 But as I thought then and it has proved since , it made a good story — The pump and towing car did not fare so lightly ; they caught the blast , we missed it .
12 He had normal hearing all his life and it has proved impossible to discover what aroused his interest in deafness .
13 In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 .
14 Robert 's parents , Garry and Thelma , both 26 , paid for the second operation which was carried out in November 1991 and it has proved successful .
15 School spokeswoman Mary Thomas said : ‘ This is the first time we have staged My Fair Lady and it has proved a resounding success .
16 For over a century the medieval churches which remained had been museums in the care of the European Sector , but it had proved impossible to balance their antiquarian value against the considerable costs of allowing religious practice to take place within them .
17 But it has proved costly and difficult to isolate receptors .
18 Productivity has been maintained , as far as possible , by the increasing use of artificial fertilizers , but it has proved very difficult to keep up the humus level on which a good soil structure depends .
19 But it has proved far from popular , as Company Reporting , the monthly review of financial reporting , has pointed out .
20 For example , historical materialism may have a lot to tell us about the political economy of immigrant labour and the unequal exchange between metropolitan capitalism and the third world , but it has proved quite incapable of grasping the micro-foundations of racist ideologies .
21 This may operate as follows : This would normally be expected to produce results rather worse than the mid-square method , but it has proved to be very effective on occasions ( see p. 169 for further discussion ) .
22 But it has proved an impasse of exceptionally fertile ground , like the oscillating binary system of a computer , engendering infinite programmes and forms .
23 This is by no means a unique model , but it has Proved an effective one and our experience of it is presented as a case study of a learning experience through which , as in all learning experiences , learning resulted from mistakes as well as from successes .
24 But it has proved during tests to be very effective .
25 It 's incredible to say so , but it 's proved the case , and I feel very strongly on that as a result .
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