Example sentences of "[that] proved to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first-ever Chelsea Show garden venture for BBC Gardeners ' World Magazine and sponsor Fuji film was a real challenge that proved to be a great success ! |
| 2 | ‘ After aluminium blocked filters at a treatment plant at Penwhirn Reservoir near Stranraer , ’ wrote the Sunday Times , ‘ the authority decided not to tell its customers and then issued safety advice that proved to be incorrect and inadequate . ’ |
| 3 | He fell in love with the man , the political doubts about sexuality and disability came later as he learnt more and his mind slowly opened and then contracted with knowledge that proved to be no salvation . |
| 4 | ‘ We received a three-year projection on the Soyuz programme from the same cell … and that proved to be 100% . |
| 5 | I say ‘ can ’ because most of us have bought something that proved to be marvellous . |
| 6 | Cosloy , impressed , invited the band over to play at this summer 's New Music Seminar in New York , where they pulled apart the Knitting Factory with a glorious show that proved to be one of the most talked about of the week . |
| 7 | But even that proved to be hard . |
| 8 | They were marked by projects that came to nothing and avenues of commitment that proved to be culs-de-sac . |
| 9 | For a little while it was not clear that wave mechanics and matrix mechanics were different expressions of the same basic physical theory , but in fact that proved to be the case . |
| 10 | When Chancellor Nigel Lawson stopped double mortgage tax relief in the Summer of nineteen eighty eight , he caused a frantic scramble to buy homes that proved to be the final boom before the housing bubble burst . |
| 11 | And that proved to be a fraud . |