Example sentences of "[be] prove [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , the pursuer 's advisers may appreciate that being unable to produce better vouching , the claim can not be proven to be worth more than the Tender which is , consequently , accepted . |
| 2 | The product sectors on which we have focused will , I believe , be proven to be increasingly beneficial to us as consumers look for fewer but better quality , better value products . |
| 3 | But perhaps I 'm going to be proved to be over innocent in thinking that is a viable approach . |
| 4 | Cropper looked for support from the African Institution for the removal of the West Indians ' financial advantage in the sugar trade , privately assuring Zachary Macaulay that the introduction of free-labour sugar was opposed by the planters because they knew it ‘ will destroy their System of cultivation , tho ’ it can be proved to be the only means of establishing West Indian property on a lasting foundation . |
| 5 | Once a logical contradiction is admitted to a system of propositions any other proposition and its negation can be proved to be true by virtue of the rules of formal logic . |
| 6 | Hence those who take a floating charge from a company which can not be proved to be solvent , and which does not survive for a further year , can not thereby obtain protection in respect to their existing debts , but only to the extent that they provide the company with new value and thus increase the assets available for other creditors . |
| 7 | It might be asked how a person could be proved to be ‘ aware that his conduct may be disorderly ’ when he genuinely but thoughtlessly is unaware of the existence of a bystander . |
| 8 | It is important that we maintain our form of help because among asylum seekers there are those who will ultimately be proved to be genuine refugees . |
| 9 | That will be proved to be so because of the dogged , persistent and brilliant negotiating work by the Prime Minister , the Foreign Secretary and his two Ministers of State , especially my good friend the Member for Watford ( Mr. Garel-Jones ) . |
| 10 | Imported products which failed to meet these standards could be subjected to extra duties providing that : the environmental standards had a scientific base ; the same standards must be applied to all competitive domestic production ; and imported products could be proved to be causing economic damage to competitive domestic industries . |
| 11 | These difficulties have resolved themselves into the question : is the comment " fair " , in the sense of being one which the commentator could honestly express , on the strength of such of his facts as can be proved to be true ? |
| 12 | Claims made in the early 1960s — scornfully dismissed at that time — that nuclear weapon testing was responsible for the anomalous and extreme weather and climate of that period may yet be prove to be valid . |