Example sentences of "[Wh det] proved to be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result twenty-nine food ships — the organizing of which proved to be a good way of strengthening support , were sent to Republican Spain during the three years of the civil war . |
| 2 | I went with Harry in the ambulance to Maidenhead hospital , both of us swathed in blankets , Harry also in a foil-lined padded wrap used for hypothermia cases ; and from then on it was a matter of phoning and reassuring Fiona and waiting to see the extent of Harry 's injuries , which proved to be a pierced calf , entry and exit wounds both clean and clotted , with no dreadful damage in between . |
| 3 | The ammunition drums were loaded with a mixture of incendiary , explosive and tracer rounds , which proved to be a lethal cocktail when used against aircraft and road transport . |
| 4 | We followed the programme devised centrally , which proved to be a bonus when companies wishing to link into more than one school could identify readily what was happening as the process was common to each school . |
| 5 | It was held at Bentley Technical College , a TAFE college in Perth , which proved to be a pleasant setting . |
| 6 | Since he owned the poker dice , Peter claimed to be the proprietor of the Emperor 's Luck Casino , which proved to be a far-sighted move . |
| 7 | On that rather complacement note matters rested until 1958 , the year in which A. W. Phillips of the London School of Economics published a paper which proved to be a landmark in the evolution of macroeconomic ideas . |
| 8 | The ‘ winter of discontent ’ and the subsequent return of the Conservatives for what proved to be a very lengthy period of rule seemed to most observers to mark a profound watershed . |
| 9 | But there was little disguising Tory delight in what proved to be a highly effective exercise in damage limitation , despite the above-average swing towards Labour . |
| 10 | After my men had rested we climbed up to the road , and set off on what proved to be a very long twenty-mile march to the forest Rest House at Haira Khan . |
| 11 | It was an unhappy start to what proved to be a contentious relationship , with Lugard wanting to turn the clock back to the days of his undisputed pre-eminence , and Temple , whose sense of his own consequence was equally developed , treating him as primus ( barely ) inter pares . |
| 12 | Souness decided to make what proved to be a decisive substitution , replacing Ronnie Rosenthal with Walters . |
| 13 | The hole cards for what proved to be a $2 million pot looked pretty small at the time : for Dastmalchi , for Jacobs . |
| 14 | The mayor of Dushanbe , Maksud Ikramov , issued what proved to be a highly controversial decree on the same day allowing the removal of statues of Lenin . |
| 15 | Several times on my pilgrimage through Biomorph Land I seemed to come close to a precursor of my insects , but , then , in spite of my best efforts as a selecting agent , evolution went off on what proved to be a false trail . |
| 16 | ‘ The clock itself also had attention and work on what proved to be a fairly major project finished in 1991 . ’ |
| 17 | I seem to remember the Labour Party being dragged down what proved to be a very long dark road indeed by the trade unions . |