Example sentences of "[adv] proved to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 2 | I believe we are already lost ’ , an analysis which the Empress kept to herself , but which soon proved to be all too correct , for in the early days of August the French armies suffered three defeats at the battles of Spicheren , Wissembourg and Froeschwiller . |
| 3 | They soon proved to be far too small to contain his collection . |
| 4 | Yesterday proved to be significant for the stand-off for he also announced his engagement to Lucy Fleming , a 25-year-old art teacher from Uplawmoor , near Glasgow . |
| 5 | It also proved to be a particularly easy car to sell , ’ says Mr Baggaley . |
| 6 | It also proved to be a fall from grace , as it transpired that he 'd stolen millions of pounds from his workers ' pension funds , to pay off mounting business debts . |
| 7 | He immediately proved to be a very different character to Stan , exuding confidence , highly extrovert , but just as affectionate and sociable . |
| 8 | Joseph Bédier , the French scholar whose book published exactly a hundred years ago proved to be the inception of modern fabliau studies , inferred from the number of known authors and the number of anonymous fabliaux that only about one-eighth of the original corpus survives . |
| 9 | That commercial television then proved to be popular is beside the point . |
| 10 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 11 | Summoning Russians back from abroad proved to be a mistake in view of the fact that the 80,000 " returnees " disseminated information about the startling developments in Paris , Berlin and Vienna , but the news was not enough to prevent the Russian Empire from remaining the one continental power to escape the consequences of the " springtime of the nations " . |
| 12 | On the trade unions too , the Thatcher government again proved to be more cautious than its language might imply . |
| 13 | Women again proved to be more emphatic about sex equality than men , and London teachers were more feminist than others . |
| 14 | SALFORD JUNIORS again proved to be the giant killers in last weekend 's quarter-finals of the Burtonwood Brewery Lancashire Cup . |
| 15 | One member of each pair was asked to describe a drawing for their partner to draw — the casters ' may not have been the most successful — but it certainly proved to be the funniest ! |
| 16 | On the rare occasions when I have met television journalists , I have been astonished by the hatred expressed for Adie , as well as by the vitriolic gossip about her , which subsequently proved to be entirely false . |
| 17 | The risk is that the procedure could possibly self-incriminate a firm if , for instance , it marked a document which subsequently proved to be fraudulent or defective and which at the time gave no rise for any audit comments . |
| 18 | This results from a kind of double vision which blurs the difference between the historical interpretation of contemporary economic advice and the evaluation of ideas which subsequently proved to be significant in the evolution of economic theory . |
| 19 | A careful note should be made against any sub-contractor used by the builder who subsequently proved to be unsatisfactory . |