Example sentences of "proved not [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , requests for ‘ ordinary ’ publications which could not be supplied , or whose delivery proved not to be straightforward , were included , since the submission of such a request is likely to be as time-consuming for book-fetchers — if not moreso — than requests which can easily be satisfied . |
| 2 | Some years ago , TVS absorbed Channel TV , covering the Channel Islands , as this small market proved not to be viable on its own . |
| 3 | Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 . |
| 4 | It proved not to be easy . |
| 5 | My wife wished to take a photograph of me leaning against it from uphill and I have to report that the stone proved not to be immovable and now rests at the bottom of the slope . |
| 6 | King Henry IV proved not to be popular , mainly because he had to ward off constant attempts to usurp him , and all his energy was directed in that pursuit , so that he died at an age of less than forty-seven , in March 1413 . |