Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] prove [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under such circumstances speculative capital movements can not be relied upon to offset any temporary deficit on the current account because capital flows may prove to be volatile in an uncertain world . |
| 2 | ‘ But Jamie or Gary should prove to be suitable donors . |
| 3 | To maintain the high level of accuracy required , a video of the uses of accident data may prove to be valuable in reassuring police officers that their efforts in collecting so many details about each accident really do help to prevent accidents . |
| 4 | These two goals may prove to be incompatible and yet each will have its supporters . |
| 5 | A regulatory body will have to be empowered by law to administer the new rules ; however , since the proposed Directive allows the regulatory authority to delegate its powers to a private body , there is no reason why the Panel in its present form should not be given the necessary authority with the result that changes in day-to-day practice may prove to be minimal . |
| 6 | Of course , Joanna might get a bit depressed if very little farm work came along , but maybe Robert Sheldrake 's gloomy prediction would prove to be wrong . |
| 7 | It is more likely , however , that these singularities will prove to be more than artificial coordinate singularities that particles can pass through . |
| 8 | Is he aware that such cuts in academic research will prove to be economic short termism with vengeance ? |
| 9 | ‘ The agency were unable to estimate what proportion may prove to be untraceable or otherwise impracticable to pursue and would therefore have to be written off . |
| 10 | The application of the rule in the case of financial loss presents no conceptual difficulty , although in practice the exercise may prove to be complicated . |
| 11 | Rather than duplicate the work carried out in the creation of these parsers , the use of existing parsers should prove to be beneficial . |
| 12 | But the argument which carried the day in favour of providing more elementary studies was that courses of the Chapter III type in rural areas would prove to be attractive and would lead to more demanding studies and higher standards in subsequent years . |
| 13 | iii ) What additional effects will prove to be important in the statistical modelling of corporate financial data and how best can the size of companies and the sector of operations be accounted for ? |
| 14 | This transformation of professional climate may prove to be one of the most important legacies of The Primary Needs Programme . |
| 15 | For a career mother , the three roles of mother , career woman and spouse may prove to be impossible without considerable domestic help . |
| 16 | LEFT Dogs may prove to be fierce guardians of their home , but unprovoked displays of aggression can not be tolerated . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) The date , time and place of the proposed examination must prove to be convenient to our client . |
| 18 | Sue Stocker says she had no idea her husband would prove to be such a good performer in front of the camera … |
| 19 | The effect of this , quite naturally , is for even the most conscientious of organisations not to bring out modifications or amendments and to keep their fingers crossed in the hope that their suspicions of a failure or shortcoming will prove to be unsubstantiated . |
| 20 | The organisation may prove to be inflexible and unable to respond to changing circumstances . |
| 21 | It might be heartbreaking but the summary plus the recommended actions may prove to be all that is ever needed or read . |
| 22 | And the final reflection which suggests itself is that if this pattern of behaviour should prove to be normal , it should be assumed — at least until the contrary is demonstrated — that it is beneficial and has been evolved by trial and error as a preservative device or mechanism . |
| 23 | Now to counteract that the only positive one I could find was , while accepting that some development in the open countryside may prove to be necessary . |
| 24 | The object may prove to be genuine , but this is little consolation to the owner if it has been largely destroyed during the authentication process . |
| 25 | Projects where a specific commodity is in international demand will prove an exception to this ; such demand may prove to be strongest in other parts of the developing world , particularly Asia . |
| 26 | Could it therefore be , as the theorist Paul Dirac suggests , that when confronted with these non-local effects , quantum theory will prove to be inadequate ? |
| 27 | The game environment can prove to be useful in providing the vehicle for this purpose . |
| 28 | I shall merely be requesting information about a taste which puzzles me , not demanding a further reason without which the whole string of answers will prove to be baseless . |
| 29 | It is likely , however , that the most potent and effective form of communication will prove to be personal contact — through seminars , workshops , site visits and perhaps through short-term secondments that will feed proven experience from ‘ best ’ sites to others where there is scope for improvement . |
| 30 | The disaster may prove to be cyclical , since the shrimp population , already at risk from heavy fishing , is believed to need the mangroves to reproduce . |