Example sentences of "[vb mod] prove [prep] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The date , time and place of the proposed examination must prove to be convenient to our client . |
| 2 | The disappointment for Newcastle , and for the North-East , is that what might prove to be one of the most crucial games in the club 's history has been decided not by skill , flair and courage — but by dubious refereeing decisions . |
| 3 | It was a bold experiment that is almost certain to be rewarded with full houses and , as the acoustics are to be softened , by tonight 's performance it might prove to be one of the better stagings . |
| 4 | ‘ This could prove to be one of the key issues as Europe attempts to move into stages two and three of EMU ’ , he said . |
| 5 | In fact , one of the major drawbacks with signature models is that the buyer unwittingly inherits all of the idiosyncrasies of the original player 's design and , in a few instances , these could prove to be incompatible with his or her own style of playing . |
| 6 | Apparent oppositions , they felt , should not only be tolerated but gloried in : ultimately they would prove to be resolvable in a wider harmony . |
| 7 | A simple leaflet routinely given out to patients before admission to hospital for common , straightforward operations , explaining the operation they are to undergo , common after-effects , the discomfort and temporary impairment of function likely to be experienced , and so on , may prove to be helpful in the sense of increasing feelings of control and might well aid their recovery . |
| 8 | SuperShow is an excellent example of Shareware at its very best and may prove to be invaluable to both the business and educational user . |
| 9 | Part of the point of selling state businesses is to raise hard cash , and taking on more debt to fund worker buyouts in return for low or non-earning equity stakes ( which may prove to be worthless in the long run ) is not a real option for the government . |
| 10 | This transformation of professional climate may prove to be one of the most important legacies of The Primary Needs Programme . |
| 11 | Finally , we realise that we are only at the beginning of what may prove to be one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | But this may prove to be one of the final fence cutting protests at Upper Heyford . |
| 13 | For a career mother , the three roles of mother , career woman and spouse may prove to be impossible without considerable domestic help . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | What may prove to be important for future generations of elderly people in terms of care and living arrangements , is the numbers who will have experienced a divorce . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Also , other measures of pairwise probe distance/similarity may prove to be better-suited to future applications than the maximum-likelihood distance used here . |
| 19 | First , I want to comment on some features of the hereditary mechanism which may prove to be characteristic of all living things , whether on this planet or elsewhere in the universe . |
| 20 | This question of the definition of a knowledge worker will prove to be germane to our subsequent discussion , and we will need to develop the theme in more detail . |
| 21 | I hope that I will prove to be wrong about the Bill . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | * Pregnant women are warned about eating liver as animal feeds that are fortified with liver have caused unnaturally high levels of Vitamin A which is stored in the body 's fat and can prove to be toxic in overdose . |
| 24 | The game environment can prove to be useful in providing the vehicle for this purpose . |