Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] proved [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , these gloomy prognostications proved to be unfounded . |
| 2 | For the Labour Party , the inter-war years proved to be successful ones . |
| 3 | The triple and quadruple recombinant baculoviruses proved to be stable for up to nine passages . |
| 4 | On close inspection the various materials proved to be sweat-stained and much-repaired . |
| 5 | The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche . |