Example sentences of "[pers pn] proved to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The best of it was that the farmer — Mr Harris — said that if I proved to be right , he 'd call me in again , especially as Mr Jarvis had said that my fees were moderate . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , and you proved to be a warm and funny companion , gentle and sweet , and I was intrigued to discover why someone like you would pursue a man . |
| 3 | She proved to be a remarkably good co-ordinator in uniting the different societies in their drive to improve conditions and by touring the country , set up local Old People 's Welfare groups to promote homes , clubs , visiting and other services . |
| 4 | Despite her earlier fears , she proved to be an excellent subject , probably due in part to her desperation to be helped and partly to the fact that she had spent a week practising the relaxation technique and listening to my voice on cassette , so that she was comfortable with both . |
| 5 | She proved to be a pleasant soul whose husband had been drowned at sea . |
| 6 | But she proved to be a natural and her performance won rave reviews . |
| 7 | But she proved to be a highly effective change master in her organization , responsible for many successful new projects , because she is a superb coalition builder , drawing hardly at all on her relationship with the CEO . |
| 8 | She proved to be the Glisseuse , a rather shabby forty foot motor cruiser , difficult to see on Venturous ' radar , so that much of the time she had to be kept at visual distance , especially as she approached the busy traffic lanes of the Thames . |
| 9 | Or so the stories went , and excellent publicity they proved to be . |
| 10 | They proved to be summer cottages , all closed . |
| 11 | The end-product was interpreted and enforced by judges who were independent of both the legislature and the executive and whose jobs were guaranteed regardless of how inconvenient they proved to be . |
| 12 | In practice , the lack of codified rules defining a true and fair view was a serious weakness because when lawyers were employed to interpret the rules , they proved to be vulnerable . |
| 13 | But when the first horsemen loomed close , they proved to be Sir Andrew Leslie and his lieutenants , leading the two thousand reserve force . |
| 14 | Samples also came from 27 butchers and 27 delis in Leeds , Reading and South London — and they proved to be worse . |
| 15 | Some Indian railways attempted to cope with the great pressure of third-class passengers by installing them in double-decker carriages , but these had soon to be abandoned because they proved to be unsafe and top-heavy . |
| 16 | The tourists came here principally to win the Test series and they proved to be worthy winners . |
| 17 | They proved to be worthy Finalists having beaten a very good Cork team by three goals to one in the Semi-Final . |
| 18 | It proved to be a period of strained relations with the English liberals , who were allies of the Irish party , but who were also in favour of bringing schooling more and more under state rather than church control ( Miller 1973 : 81–7 , 120–38 , 268–92 ) . |
| 19 | It proved to be an uphill struggle , and was far from successful . |
| 20 | It proved to be Gooch 's day ; with Slack he put on 89 for the second wicket in seventeen overs , setting the foundations for the later onslaught . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought it was a weakness I had but it was n't — it proved to be my strength . |
| 22 | With one liberal white and two coloured Africans reading , it proved to be an impassioned attack on apartheid . |
| 23 | It proved to be a decisive victory for the Eighth Army and it was followed by further swift advances across northern Africa . |
| 24 | It proved to be the last London double-decker bus with the passenger 's entrance at the rear . |
| 25 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 26 | Pitched on the machair in Sutherland , however , it proved to be as useful as holding a tea towel over your head . |
| 27 | What a year it proved to be : he won the PGA at St Georges , and finished second on the Order of Merit . |
| 28 | The long-term results of this eruption were profound : it proved to be Iceland 's worst ever disaster . |
| 29 | The Community Programme also met with some suspicion when it was first introduced by the MSC in the early 1980s but it proved to be a boon for many bureaux to expand their services and broaden their workforce . |
| 30 | It proved to be a naive if eventful wish . |