Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The WRAC recruits have proved to be excellent shots and many of the scores achieved would be the envy of their male counterparts . |
| 2 | Furthermore the structures of the lexical entries have tended to be proprietary to the system making it impossible to exchange lexicons between systems . |
| 3 | Until now period performances have tended to be abrasive and to whizz through the slow movements , making even the sublime Largo of the Double Concerto into a trivial siciliana . |
| 4 | The Australians have had to be content with the second favourites slot in front of their home crowd . |
| 5 | Retailers expect a bigger improvement in June , but their expectations have proved to be over-optimistic in the past two months . |
| 6 | Maris Peer , Maris Piper , Pentland Crown , Pentland Dell and Pentland Squire have proved to be suitable . |
| 7 | Such national formations have continued to be important , but in the twentieth century there has been a marked development of certain kinds of ‘ international ’ — or , better , ‘ paranational ’ — cultural formation . |
| 8 | Most recent linguistic explanations have tended to be internal to linguistic theory : that is to say , some linguistic feature is explained by reference to other linguistic features , or to aspects of the theory itself . |
| 9 | Which places have grown to be major market towns in the central Pennines , and which river is each on ? |
| 10 | This might be so after today 's rain , for instance , when the facts about the rain have ceased to be evidence-transcendent to all . |
| 11 | In The Art Newspaper No. 16 March 1992 p. 6 we published the fears of some art historians that this exhibition might have been infiltrated by fakes ; in the event these fears have proved to be groundless and the show has been enjoying great success . |
| 12 | No logical contradiction is involved in claiming that all observed ravens have proved to be black and also that not all ravens are black . |
| 13 | But training officers have learnt to be philosophical about such mishaps : " Some stay , some do n't , " they say . |
| 14 | Many in the last decade have chosen to be independent in the way they handle trade unions and collective bargaining rather than rely , as in the past , on employers ' associations and multi employer bargaining . |
| 15 | Another problem according to Lewis ( 1983 , 149 ) is ‘ the lack of an adequate conceptual framework ’ and as a result ( 1983,149 ) : ‘ most rural studies have tended to be empirical and holistic , thus lacking comparability and depth ’ . |
| 16 | But " originality " presents a difficult problem because ( unless you are doing advanced research ) you are unlikely to be in a position to advance new facts or radically new interpretations , or even to have a wide enough knowledge of what other people have written to be sure that you are not duplicating it . |
| 17 | In modem times , many people have claimed to be able to see fairies . |
| 18 | People have got to be involved in solving themselves the problems themselves . |
| 19 | And people have got to be able to cope with the challenges . |
| 20 | Yeah , but I mean , be honest , you , you say that , but people have got to be prepared to adjust as well . |
| 21 | and people have got to be aware of their prejudices |
| 22 | Erm I 've mentioned accessibility , I would raise that again , I 'm a non-driver erm it 's easy to hop in a car and get from here to Chelmsford , if you want to do it by public transport it is a nightmare erm the meeting here on , on Monday which was very poorly attended , and I understand that 's been the pattern right across the area , and I do n't think the health authority is that interested in finding out what people have thought to be honest ! |
| 23 | I mean in the past in has always turned out that what people have thought to be elementary turns out never to be elementary . |
| 24 | In this way general practitioners have begun to be involved in making decisions about effecting change in the balance of services between primary and secondary care and in establishing priorities for the types of services they wish to see delivered in the future . |
| 25 | The results of putting these services out to competitive tender have proved to be controversial with proponents claiming significant improvements in efficiency and critics claiming a substantial worsening in service quality . |
| 26 | Yet Dr. Elliott is elsewhere in print ( on the back of an Abbey Records LP ) as maintaining as almost certain that Carver composed the superb anonymous 6-Part Mass , ‘ Cantate Domino , ’ intimately related musically to Fera Pessima , which survives in partbooks from Lincluden ( Dr. Elliott has edited it from performance , and declared it ‘ shows more assured technical command ’ than Fere Pessima itself ) ; while the Carver Choirbook itself contains a fine anonymous 3-Part Mass which several scholars have suspected to be genuine Carver — and which is moreover largely in his hand . |
| 27 | Even the supposedly rigid ‘ external financing limits ’ imposed by the post-1979 Conservative government in Britain have proved to be flexible in practice ( Heald and Steel 1981 ) , with targets being adjusted when it became apparent that they would not be met . |
| 28 | Optimistic views , not shared by Freud , that liberation from sexual prohibitions would eliminate neurosis and make for a healthier society have proved to be wrong . |
| 29 | ‘ Quite a few players have got to be worried and I include myself among them . |
| 30 | John Price ( 1968 ) has made two suggestions : perhaps temporary moods of pessimistic caution have proved to be advantageous in avoiding predators , or perhaps depressive behaviour has evolved as part of the complex behaviour which maintains the stability of man 's community . |