Example sentences of "have prove to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its underwater design is a refinement of the ‘ pure centerboard ’ concept that has proven to be so fast and seaworthy on the race course in Ted Hood 's series of Robins . |
| 2 | Paul , who commutes daily — a weekly total of 630 miles — from his home town of Dundee has proven to be an excellent draughtsman both manually and on CAD , gaining expertise on CADvance , AUTOCAD and Microstation Intergraph systems which are supported throughout FWWG . |
| 3 | This has proven to be a strong deterrent against theft . |
| 4 | This has proven to be the case in all of the uses of to examined to date . |
| 5 | Guillaume 's notion of a representation of person as a support within the infinitive has proven to be extremely fruitful for explaining the uses of this form discussed above . |
| 6 | A stand-up , straight-backed style has proved to be less effective against professional opponents although Biggs claims that attempts to make him more aggressive were counter-productive against Tyson . |
| 7 | The warm weather which helped Etam in the summer has proved to be a disadvantage in the run-up to autumn trading and the chairman , Alan Howard , says the group has been trading slightly below budgeted levels . |
| 8 | Although the report did not allude to the possibility of fraud , it has proved to be prophetic in a number of respects . |
| 9 | One is that the cradle to grave provision of welfare , implicit in the Beveridge proposals , has proved to be too expensive and that the demand for welfare has grown faster than has the national income to pay for adequate comprehensive services and benefits . |
| 10 | In foreign affairs Mrs Thatcher has proved to be something of a ‘ little Englander ’ . |
| 11 | Britain has proved to be one of the least ‘ community-minded ’ members of the EEC and has for long been at odds with other states about the level of British contributions to the EEC budget . |
| 12 | Whereas Haslam has found that a detached outside perspective has proved to be valuable in several of the companies he has served as a board member , his early intimate knowledge of the coal industry was equally beneficial when he was asked to become chairman of British Coal , bringing his career full circle . |
| 13 | In some cases such strife has proved to be recurrent over twenty years , as in Zaire , Sudan , and Burundi and in others more or less endemic , as in Chad and Uganda and in Ethiopia in its fight to contain Eritrea . |
| 14 | While justified in reaction to the dominance of foreign investment at the time of independence , it has proved to be a very expensive strategy . |
| 15 | It has proved to be a great grace for the Church . |
| 16 | This dilemma for a game with millions of followers worldwide has proved to be a ‘ bunch of sixes ’ opportunity for Welsh inventor Don Hughes , a self-confessed liardice buff , who claims to have beaten the Far East electronics industry literally at its own game by developing an electronic version that is hardly bigger than a credit card . |
| 17 | So far he has proved to be no stern ayatollah . |
| 18 | Ramon Mitra has proved to be a competent Speaker in the House of Representatives . |
| 19 | He has proved to be an excellent literary scholar . |
| 20 | Hugh Price Hughes chastised the 1896 Free Church Council meetings for its vociferousness and insisted that all should ‘ submit to those restraints and regulations which the experience of the greatest representative assemblies of the world has proved to be necessary to an intelligent participation in the business as it proceeds ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ This venture has proved to be that rarity in Britain , a classical technology transfer from a British university to a British company followed by success , ’ he said . |
| 22 | This is an attractive hotel built in traditional chalet style , which has proved to be very popular with our previous clients , and is just an 8 minute walk from the main pedestrian precinct . |
| 23 | This three-pronged approach has proved to be a successful formula , and many new markets have been opened up for companies as a result of participation on a mission . |
| 24 | Their durability and versatility has proved to be quite extraordinary . |
| 25 | Often this has proved to be so . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , the same has proved to be true of experiments using Lawrence 's original design . |
| 27 | The major disadvantage of the textual materialist perspective is its complete failure to confront the autobiographical dimension in more recent examples of nouveau roman writing , which has proved to be increasingly fertile in the 1980s . |
| 28 | He obviously enjoys the medium and , at times , it has proved to be a superior form of communication than the records themselves . |
| 29 | And the method they have adopted has proved to be the beginning of the slide that has lead to mass dispersals of the kind that happened at Brent . |
| 30 | CND : the first phase Opposition to nuclear weapons has proved to be an enduring source of popular protest in Britain in the 1980s . |