Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] prove to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces . |
| 2 | It would have been handled , she knew , with all the caution that the dust from the moon had been , since it might have proven to be toxic as any of the man-made monstrosities aboard Titron . |
| 3 | As far as is known practical tests of centrifugal launchers were never undertaken , and with hindsight it is difficult to imagine that they could have proved to be a practical notion , requiring large structures and imposing high stresses on man and machinery . |
| 4 | For Althusser both history and the subject are equally decentred : his attack on Sartre 's claims for a unitary history ( however complex its textual elaboration may have proved to be ) was therefore accompanied by a critique of the notion of the unitary human subject that constitutes it . |
| 5 | Some visitors may have proved to be undesirable or objectionable , or perhaps have left without paying their bill , and therefore it is essential that this type of guest be blacklisted for future reference . |
| 6 | Without an infusion of funds from the DHSS ( now DSS ) , fewer private homes would have been established and many more would have proved to be unprofitable . |
| 7 | R : Our initial fear that the Clause would spread proved to be unfounded . |