Example sentences of "was to [be] proved [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glasser 's prose is sometimes declamatory and sententious in an old-fashioned sort of way , and sometimes awkward ( ‘ Hidden in the near future , he was to be proved right ’ ) . |
| 2 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 3 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |
| 4 | And my , how wonderful it was to be proved right once again ! ’ |
| 5 | Bobby Simpson 's judgement was to be proved right … |
| 6 | It was a sign that , today , was to be proved false . |
| 7 | Not for the first time that day , the Doctor was to be proved wrong . |
| 8 | Sadly Mr McLean , who had always promised he would retire with a final Conservative win after his successful opening in 1951 , was to be proved wrong . |