Example sentences of "[Wh det] proved to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real essence of ‘ Thatcherism ’ , indeed , lay not so much in its ideas , which proved to be increasingly malleable as the years went by , and especially when Nigel Lawson took over the Treasury in 1984 . |
| 2 | It had many difficulties in controlling M3 , which proved to be an unreliable barometer . |
| 3 | The hall at Blackpool is ideally suited to rousing speeches but is totally wrong as the setting for a question-and-answer session — which proved to be just as appalling as I had feared . |
| 4 | And they were certainly the principal victims of the health dispute of 1982 , which proved to be Britain 's longest industrial dispute for fifty years . |
| 5 | As a result twenty-nine food ships — the organizing of which proved to be a good way of strengthening support , were sent to Republican Spain during the three years of the civil war . |
| 6 | I went with Harry in the ambulance to Maidenhead hospital , both of us swathed in blankets , Harry also in a foil-lined padded wrap used for hypothermia cases ; and from then on it was a matter of phoning and reassuring Fiona and waiting to see the extent of Harry 's injuries , which proved to be a pierced calf , entry and exit wounds both clean and clotted , with no dreadful damage in between . |
| 7 | Old Boys locks David Phelps and Mark Trigg managed to achieve parity at the line-out , but it was the set scrum which proved to be their Achilles heel . |
| 8 | Renault offers a 1.9-litre diesel for its roomy 21 , and I was particularly impressed by the 2-litre non-turbo diesel in the well-made Toyota Carina , which proved to be one of the best medium-sized diesels I have tried . |
| 9 | He was largely responsible for organising the supply of machinery and equipment to be fitted in the bare hulls to be built in the yards of British Columbia — an industry which proved to be of vital importance during the Second World War . |
| 10 | In fact it was the television and newspaper pictures of police batoning demonstrators which proved to be the catalyst in transforming the situation . |
| 11 | American station design had found a truly contemporary style which proved to be well suited to station scale . |
| 12 | The ammunition drums were loaded with a mixture of incendiary , explosive and tracer rounds , which proved to be a lethal cocktail when used against aircraft and road transport . |
| 13 | Many LDCs gained political independence in the 1960s and 1970s , sometimes at the end of a war which proved to be destructive in human and material terms , e.g. Algeria , Angola and Zimbabwe . |
| 14 | The Morris as a tractor was unsatisfactory , and was replaced by a Roberts platform truck or trolley , which proved to be underpowered , but ideally manoeuvrable . |
| 15 | We followed the programme devised centrally , which proved to be a bonus when companies wishing to link into more than one school could identify readily what was happening as the process was common to each school . |
| 16 | At this time he acquired his sensitivity of touch which proved to be invaluable later in his career . |
| 17 | When the First World War broke out in 1914 schools were on holiday , which proved to be an advantage to the military authorities who promptly requisitioned the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf at Doncaster and the Dundee School for the Deaf . |
| 18 | The educational history of the surveying profession began around 1881 ; after the granting of the Charter in 1868 , an initial examination structure was developed in 1880 which proved to be remarkably durable and apposite , surviving almost intact until 1932 . |
| 19 | Having displayed in this clear format what has been happening , you will then be able to interpret the general trend , and raise questions regarding those years which proved to be exceptions to the overall picture . |
| 20 | Words which proved to be unreliable as stimuli for eliciting particular consonants were excluded , as were children who failed to respond to 15 per cent or more of the items . |
| 21 | It was held at Bentley Technical College , a TAFE college in Perth , which proved to be a pleasant setting . |
| 22 | Since he owned the poker dice , Peter claimed to be the proprietor of the Emperor 's Luck Casino , which proved to be a far-sighted move . |
| 23 | The ECSC rules required a qualified majority in the Council for such a declaration , something which proved to be impossible . |
| 24 | Both firms had been influenced to a certain extent by an even earlier headhunting business , started by one Thorndike Deland in 1926 , which proved to be considerably ahead of its time . |
| 25 | Perhaps more revealing is the evidence on sources and distribution of research funds which proved to be highly related . |
| 26 | Members of parliament and top civil servants were made to reveal their financial assets , some of which proved to be astonishingly large . |
| 27 | Everything Rossi says is illustrated by the story of Humanae Vitae , which proved to be the central crisis of his pontificate . |
| 28 | The diagnosis was complicated as four days earlier a 14 year old boy from the same school had collapsed and died after a short illness of severe diarrhoea , which proved to be due to a fatal Salmonella enteritidis infection . |
| 29 | Whether this provided any dating evidence I can not remember , but at the bottom of this deposit was an earlier pavement which proved to be of much greater interest , as it was a most unusual pattern of a scroll of trumpet-shaped leaves . |
| 30 | The most poignant lesson , which proved to be the last , was held a few days before the wedding . |