Example sentences of "[vb mod] prove to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be worse — you could live in the US where a would-be president must prove to be an Olympiad to make it to the White House . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) The date , time and place of the proposed examination must prove to be convenient to our client . |
| 3 | And the final reflection which suggests itself is that if this pattern of behaviour should prove to be normal , it should be assumed — at least until the contrary is demonstrated — that it is beneficial and has been evolved by trial and error as a preservative device or mechanism . |
| 4 | The hour of death and mode of dying , however brief and fragmentary in relation to eternity , thus acquired a fateful significance — fateful indeed , if the death of an unrepentant sinner should prove to be the broad gateway to everlasting torment . |
| 5 | The additional notes and comments proved very useful — in particular , the section on drug survival in clinical samples that are being irradiated as an anti-HIV precaution , which should prove to be very useful to those working in this area . |
| 6 | The paper should prove to be ‘ a powerful stimulus ’ to discussions , the Institute said , while the ACCA welcomed it as ‘ an important contribution to the expectations gap debate ’ . |
| 7 | If a DTI Education and Enterprise Adviser is in post locally , he or she should prove to be an invaluable partner in making Compact work . |
| 8 | ‘ You must give me your solemn assurance on three counts : that you will not seek to discover the identity of my client , that you will not ask for any further assistance if the venture should prove to be unsuccessful and finally that you will not discuss this matter with any other person ; this stipulation to include even members of your own family and your circle of personal friends and acquaintances . ’ |
| 9 | As to why a peripheral , albeit a very smart one , should prove to be the saviour of a company we need to look at some history . |
| 10 | 1993 should prove to be another successful year for the Women Artists Slide Library . |
| 11 | Rather than duplicate the work carried out in the creation of these parsers , the use of existing parsers should prove to be beneficial . |
| 12 | ‘ Well — that should prove to be an interesting surprise for all , ’ he snorted as he left the table . |
| 13 | Should the crowded platform hypothesis hold , firms from Category C should prove to be less prosperous than those in A. Similarly , companies in the sample of assisted firms should be performing better than their non-assisted counterparts . |
| 14 | The immediate product of the study will be a state-of-the-art essay describing existing bibliographic sources and data-bases ; this should prove to be a valuable research tool both within Africa and in the rest of the world . |
| 15 | Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo . |
| 16 | Considering the limited time allowed , I doubt that a code , if such there should prove to be , would take too much cracking . |
| 17 | ‘ But Jamie or Gary should prove to be suitable donors . |
| 18 | At the same time , the reader can be made to feel that , on closer inspection , the country 's politics might prove to be antics too . |
| 19 | Some pundits were , rather foolishly , speculating that he might prove to be better than all of them . |
| 20 | But its reluctant , even remote , tone is that of bureaucrats anxious to distance themselves from what might prove to be no more than fashionable scientific nonsense . |
| 21 | The Board of Admiralty had been well aware since 1955 that the US Navy 's Polaris-armed submarines might become the capital ships of the future , and might prove to be more invulnerable as mobile launch platforms for the nuclear deterrent than the US Air Force 's Skybolt , if it too was successfully developed . |
| 22 | Weary with the struggle to be understood , and fearful , like Solzhenitsyn after him , that to collect his prize in Stockholm might prove to be a one-way journey , Pasternak declined his honour , writing to Khrushchev that , for him , exile would mean death . |
| 23 | Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ . |
| 24 | He might prove to be useful but would have to be handled carefully . |
| 25 | For very heavy sailors , however , these might prove to be the most suitable straps as putting the weight further back might sink the tail of the board . |
| 26 | Although , in years to come , these might prove to be of social interest , many such letters refer only to domestic and personal trivia and , having personally recently discovered a letter written to me over 30 years ago by my wife just before we were married , I would not want this to be read by anyone else at all . |
| 27 | Demonstrations might prove to be a good way of teaching small groups of about five or six students the use of various tools used for information retrieval . |
| 28 | The accuracy of the figures , give or take the one poll in 20 that might prove to be a ‘ rogue ’ , was now , it seemed , beyond dispute . |
| 29 | Difficult as it is to summarize so majestic a body of work as that produced by Hailey in the days when he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office 's oracle on Africa , it seems fair to say that the main impression to be derived from it is of his anxiety to avoid committing the British government to any course of action which might prove to be irreversible . |
| 30 | Those problems aside , Acousticubes might prove to be good , quality nerve-centres for a touring , pro musician 's setup . |