Example sentences of "have [been] proved [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As time passed , and the cost of making new recordings has increased , so that prophesy of about 1953 has been proved right . |
| 2 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 3 | His theory , misjudged with Harvie , has been proved correct , however , with McTaggart . |
| 4 | In that case , it is usually best to use an algorithm which has been proved admissible . |
| 5 | ‘ And you were going to say that the accused was guilty , before the end of the trial , before he has been proved guilty ! ’ |
| 6 | Most of it has been proved wrong . |
| 7 | If a bold conjecture is falsified , then all that is learnt is that yet another crazy idea has been proved wrong . |
| 8 | If there is a disturbance at the periphery we already know some observation sentences which we have to revise , and we must also make a revision in the interior , for our original theory has been proved false . |
| 9 | That he should have been proved wrong on a number of points should occasion no surprise . |
| 10 | She had not been surprised to learn that the accountant Morris had been proved innocent of any crime and had pointed the finger at Spencer Grenfell . |
| 11 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 12 | And yesterday she had been proved right . |
| 13 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 14 | He had been proved right , but how could it be ? |
| 15 | Ironically , the observations of Captain FitzRoy , the orthodox Creationist , had been proved right . |
| 16 | The school 's decision not to become involved in testing had been proved right . |
| 17 | Whatham 's hunch in casting Crawford , who sported a neatly cut beard for the role , had been proved correct . |
| 18 | He was pleased in a way that his advice had been proved good , but he did n't like the thought that a woman was catching up with him . |
| 19 | Many of these boats had been supplied to foreign naval powers and had been proved able and fast in all sea conditions . |
| 20 | Now the family 's fears had been proved groundless , the bungled pay-off could be dismissed as just another example of clumsy incompetence on the part of the police , the latest in a long list of blunders . |
| 21 | He had been proved mistaken and had probably suffered a somewhat humiliating rebuff from his superior officer . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the " crisis " brought about by the discovery that unc is not a rational number clearly called for rigorous investigation : after all , the intuitively " true " had been proved false ! |
| 23 | The new device 's distributors , the Innovations mail order company , insisted however that it had been proved safe in laboratory tests . |
| 24 | Mabel had told everyone that she was sure that war was about to start , and at first she seemed disgruntled that she had been proved wrong , but soon was as ecstatic as everyone else about the news . |
| 25 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
| 26 | Now that you 've been proved right ? ’ |
| 27 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 28 | I suppose it helps both , does n't it , really , because if you 're trying to catch the teacher out , that means you 've got to know your lesson pretty well , because otherwise if you try to catch the teacher out and yet you 've been proved wrong , you 've had it really . |
| 29 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 30 | The astrologers have been proved right : the bridge was only closed to traffic in 1950 . |