Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] prove to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result twenty-nine food ships — the organizing of which proved to be a good way of strengthening support , were sent to Republican Spain during the three years of the civil war . |
| 2 | Members of parliament and top civil servants were made to reveal their financial assets , some of which proved to be astonishingly large . |
| 3 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 4 | We stayed close to the radio and eventually heard a repeat of what proved to be Marshal Badoglio 's first and last broadcast to the nation , uttered in a mournful voice : |
| 5 | Cecil Parkinson took over as Chairman of the Conservative Party in what proved to be an inspired appointment . |
| 6 | But there was little disguising Tory delight in what proved to be a highly effective exercise in damage limitation , despite the above-average swing towards Labour . |
| 7 | It all came to a head in what proved to be Lineker 's final game , when as England were trailing against Sweden in Stockholm , Taylor pulled him off . |
| 8 | This was particularly so on the Sunday when , in scorching heat , Brazilian fans ‘ danced , sang , shouted and screamed hysterically for every point scored by their players and ever fault by Germany 's Markus Zoecke , standing in for heat-stroke victim Becker , in what proved to be the decisive fourth rubber . |
| 9 | After that there was no way back for Foulds as Doherty raced away for a 5–2 win , sealing it with a 60 break in what proved to be the final frame . |
| 10 | It was an unhappy start to what proved to be a contentious relationship , with Lugard wanting to turn the clock back to the days of his undisputed pre-eminence , and Temple , whose sense of his own consequence was equally developed , treating him as primus ( barely ) inter pares . |
| 11 | After my men had rested we climbed up to the road , and set off on what proved to be a very long twenty-mile march to the forest Rest House at Haira Khan . |
| 12 | Several times on my pilgrimage through Biomorph Land I seemed to come close to a precursor of my insects , but , then , in spite of my best efforts as a selecting agent , evolution went off on what proved to be a false trail . |
| 13 | ‘ The clock itself also had attention and work on what proved to be a fairly major project finished in 1991 . ’ |
| 14 | The ‘ winter of discontent ’ and the subsequent return of the Conservatives for what proved to be a very lengthy period of rule seemed to most observers to mark a profound watershed . |
| 15 | The hole cards for what proved to be a $2 million pot looked pretty small at the time : for Dastmalchi , for Jacobs . |
| 16 | While the team lurked around the set in Malaga , Verity Lambert , whose company Cinema Verity produces the show for the BBC , flew back to London for what proved to be the fatal meeting with Mr Yentob last night . |
| 17 | But back came Colleges and after Rigby ( damaged ankle ) had been replaced at prop by Alan Kittle , Wyllie grabbed a loose ball 20 metres out and simply exploded through the visitors ' defence for what proved to be the clinching score , Thomson adding the two points . |