Example sentences of "[noun] proved to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accommodationist vote proved to be largely imaginary , and radical new candidates swept away most of the old guard , to become mayors of most of the West Bank 's towns . |
| 2 | In the Supreme Court 's ruling , the normally conservative Sandra Day O'Connor , the only female justice , voted with the liberal minority ; the decisive vote proved to be that of David Souter , Bush 's only appointee to the Court , whom abortion rights advocates had long suspected of harbouring anti-abortionist views . |
| 3 | The general pattern of pausing in this experiment proved to be very similar to that found in the earlier experiment ; subjects tended to pause at clause boundaries . |
| 4 | Those words proved to be much more that plain fighting talk . |
| 5 | This early collaboration with the adviser Proved to be mutually beneficial as it was an attempt by the adviser to persuade schools to place microcomputers away from the maths or physics department and helped in the school library service policy of validating the links between the school library and information technology . |
| 6 | The discovery well a mile away had tested at only 9.7 million cu ft/day ( 275 thousand cu m/day ) , and this result proved to be significantly higher than most later discoveries . |
| 7 | Sadly , however , the Esher result proved to be something of a RED HERRING . |
| 8 | Equipped with floats , these dependable aircraft proved to be the lifeblood of the community . |
| 9 | In the early pool games , the referees proved to be very strict indeed in applying this particular law , even to the extent of penalising players who had been pushed on top of other players lying on the ground with the ball . |
| 10 | The BBC 's own survey of public opinion also indicated that such listeners proved to be more broad-minded and imaginative than their masters thought likely . |
| 11 | Despite its bleak exterior , Templecombe proved to be a jewel . |
| 12 | Believe me , Templecombe proved to be an even larger house than I thought . |
| 13 | The high acoustic quality of the recordings proved to be critical in such cases . |
| 14 | The fourth side of the pond proved to be the busiest and also the best in terms of good finds . |
| 15 | However , being the ‘ magician ’ that he is , the demonstration proved to be a truly amazing spectacle — one which will undoubtedly be discussed in school staff common-rooms for some time to come . |
| 16 | SCFE proved to be an invaluable means of communication and exchange during the introduction of Action Plan . |
| 17 | But Maisie proved to be a real trouper — just like her mum . |
| 18 | Conventional schooling in preparation for the show ring proved to be impossible . |
| 19 | The stone free interval between stone dissolution and trial entry proved to be important — those stone free>nine months had a recurrence rate of only 12.7 ( 6.0 ) % at 42 months compared with 55.4 ( 12.5 ) % in those stone free |
| 20 | The murder proved to be the downfall of the Kray twins , who ruled London 's gangland in the sixties . |
| 21 | In multivariate analysis , chromosome 17p deletion proved to be independent of Dukes 's stage or grade . |
| 22 | Her frantic attempts to push away those wide shoulders proved to be of no avail , and there was nothing she could do to prevent his mouth gently brushing her lips . |
| 23 | The mining industry proved to be another technology-intensive industry of the type favoured by the IDA . |
| 24 | O'Faolain 's prediction proved to be accurate . |
| 25 | Nobody was more surprised than Neeld when his miserly great-uncle proved to be worth nearly £1 million , mostly in cash . |
| 26 | In so doing he also gave his blessing to — what in effect proved to be the case — declaring the Transkei , or at least Bumbane , the first ANC liberated zone , however fleetingly , yesterday afternoon . |
| 27 | Jacob Manor proved to be the very opposite of David Damiani or Fatima Zamzam . |
| 28 | The new county borough proved to be one of the shortest-lived local authorities in local government history . |
| 29 | While this latter disqualification had not prevented the marriage of the Duke d'Orléans , son of Louis-Philippe , with Helen of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , it had in practice proved to be inconvenient , as the duchess did not change her faith and had been accused of pushing ‘ the Protestant interest ’ . |
| 30 | The 10-week period of clinical practice proved to be invaluable . |