Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] prove to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon the whole you have proved to be |
| 2 | Over the years we have proved to be an effective and efficient council and I believe you have all contributed greatly to making Lothian such a progressive authority . |
| 3 | When they entered the jungle again , the Moi several times spotted banteng , but what few traces of seladang they found proved to be cold trails . |
| 4 | Sometimes they have proved to be persuasive and have become the new majority view . |
| 5 | They have proved to be adaptable to a wide variety of climates and environments , able to tolerate heat and cold and with a high resistance to disease . |
| 6 | In several countries local ‘ curriculum implementers ’ of one species or another have been appointed and in the main they have proved to be conscientious and down-to-earth professionals who do an exceptionally useful job . |
| 7 | They have proved to be most useful in identifying bands due to metal-ligand vibrations in complexes , in the same way that samples containing isotopically-substituted ligands allow identification of ligand modes [ 21 ] . |
| 8 | In many areas where they have been established , staying on rates have risen and they have proved to be popular with students and staff alike for a variety of reasons . |
| 9 | I believe they have proved to be responsible bodies , who have worked well with their Chief Constables and the local authorities their members represent and they are proud of the forces they are providing . |
| 10 | So far he has proved to be no stern ayatollah . |
| 11 | He has proved to be an excellent literary scholar . |
| 12 | Although the report did not allude to the possibility of fraud , it has proved to be prophetic in a number of respects . |
| 13 | While justified in reaction to the dominance of foreign investment at the time of independence , it has proved to be a very expensive strategy . |
| 14 | It has proved to be a great grace for the Church . |
| 15 | He obviously enjoys the medium and , at times , it has proved to be a superior form of communication than the records themselves . |
| 16 | Moreover , as Maynard has demonstrated ( Maynard , 1984 ) , it has proved to be effective in enabling health authorities to live within their means . |
| 17 | Dose assessment : The account of dose calculation contained in Urquhart 's article does not allow the method he used to be completely understood , and it has proved to be impossible to obtain the ‘ fuller version ’ of the article , either from the Journal of Nuclear Information . |
| 18 | It has proved to be of particular benefit to sales people during a sales appointment with a client . |
| 19 | THE Passion Flower ( Passiflora caerulea ) is the most popular of this large family of 500 species , because it has proved to be remarkably hardy in many parts of Britain . |
| 20 | This violates such deep-seated feelings of justice that it has proved to be unacceptable under any criminal law jurisdiction . |
| 21 | It has proved to be a major benchmark in the evolution of the policies of WACC . |
| 22 | It has proved to be one of the most successful of the Hague conventions . |
| 23 | This may operate as follows : This would normally be expected to produce results rather worse than the mid-square method , but it has proved to be very effective on occasions ( see p. 169 for further discussion ) . |
| 24 | Whereas a strategy of incorporation can be relatively successful when applied by a regime of right-wing orientation which is prepared to support it with repression , it has proved to be ineffective for leftist groups which claim to be advancing the interests of the working class . |
| 25 | I have no doubt that trust status for hospitals can be an enormous success , as it has proved to be south of the border . |
| 26 | It has proved to be popular , relevant and appropriate , especially for continuation classes in colleges of further education . |
| 27 | The park is set in 12 acres of a 156 acre farm and since its opening three seasons ago , it has proved to be one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country . |
| 28 | It is a theory whose plausibility and aesthetic attractiveness in England was considerable at a time ( the later 1970s ) when the English choral tradition was flourishing and when many sensed the need for a change of direction after the loss of David Munrow ; by a kind of happy accident it has proved to be consistent with a much wider range of evidence than was initially suspected . |
| 29 | It has proved to be of great popular interest and audiences of more than 200 people have attended the series of lectures on ‘ Studying the Scottish Home ’ , which were held in the Royal Museum of Scotland this winter . |
| 30 | It has proved to be a great success — and it marked the start of the Garrison revival . |