Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] prove to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe we are already lost ’ , an analysis which the Empress kept to herself , but which soon proved to be all too correct , for in the early days of August the French armies suffered three defeats at the battles of Spicheren , Wissembourg and Froeschwiller . |
| 2 | There may be an overlapping path which later proves to be a better choice . |
| 3 | In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service . |
| 4 | They give off thick black toxic fumes , which often prove to be more lethal than the flames themselves . |
| 5 | But there are particular problems if the media hear of new ‘ leads ’ suggesting connections which ultimately prove to be unhelpful . |
| 6 | On the rare occasions when I have met television journalists , I have been astonished by the hatred expressed for Adie , as well as by the vitriolic gossip about her , which subsequently proved to be entirely false . |
| 7 | The risk is that the procedure could possibly self-incriminate a firm if , for instance , it marked a document which subsequently proved to be fraudulent or defective and which at the time gave no rise for any audit comments . |
| 8 | This results from a kind of double vision which blurs the difference between the historical interpretation of contemporary economic advice and the evaluation of ideas which subsequently proved to be significant in the evolution of economic theory . |