Example sentences of "[prep] be proved [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , such naive views , as we shall see later , were to be proved incorrect . |
| 2 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They want to be proved right . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | I sat back expecting to be proved right and watched as people joined in the discussion and debate . |
| 7 | The history of previous attempts to reduce the prison population by introducing alternative punishments suggest that NAPO is likely to be proved right . |
| 8 | And my , how wonderful it was to be proved right once again ! ’ |
| 9 | Bobby Simpson 's judgement was to be proved right … |
| 10 | Information from unconventional sources not related to the industry carries the extra burden of having to be proved relevant or urgent . |
| 11 | It would be delightful if this pessimistic and disappointed paragraph were to be proved false by subsequent activities . |
| 12 | It was a sign that , today , was to be proved false . |
| 13 | My release may come any day , since Victor has but to re-appear among the living for the accusation to be proved false on all sides . |
| 14 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 15 | He says he is prepared to be proved wrong — suggesting he would raise his offer if DRG produced a higher valuation . |
| 16 | Throughout there was a joyless kind of determination never to be proved wrong . |
| 17 | His bust , crowned with fresh bay leaves , presides at the side of the stage , and if he is looking down from Valhalla , let us hope he is pleased to be proved wrong . |
| 18 | Are you the sort who ca n't bear to lose an argument , or to be proved wrong ; or do you mentally creep away from the conflict and experience all its discomfort within yourself . |
| 19 | How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it . |
| 20 | Even if the analysis is correct , the prediction is likely to be proved wrong . |
| 21 | Not for the first time that day , the Doctor was to be proved wrong . |
| 22 | In this I was happily to be proved wrong , but who could have known that at the time ? |
| 23 | ‘ Do you want to be proved wrong ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is a fact of human personality that the argument which is supported by the greater weight of evidence does not always win the day ; people do not like to be proved wrong . |