Example sentences of "proved [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in no case have the neutrons been definitely proved to be due to the random motion of deuterium associated with a temperature of the order of five million degrees . |
| 2 | Without an infusion of funds from the DHSS ( now DSS ) , fewer private homes would have been established and many more would have proved to be unprofitable . |
| 3 | Some visitors may have proved to be undesirable or objectionable , or perhaps have left without paying their bill , and therefore it is essential that this type of guest be blacklisted for future reference . |
| 4 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |
| 5 | Storage at 6–7°C has proved to be successful . |
| 6 | This strategy has proved to be successful . |
| 7 | The G M B's got a long record of joining forces with others which has proved to be successful , but if we 're gon na be honest , it 's always been recognized that we would be the predominant union and yes Apex members we should have been honest with you at the time of merger , because it 's quite clear you was gon na lose your identity to at least to some extent and we should have been honest about that . |
| 8 | The strategy of deciding to concentrate on the Hotel and Leisure Markets has proved to be successful . |
| 9 | The reorganisation of DTI away from sectors has proved to be successful . |
| 10 | There were reports that the coal used on the trip of Sunday September 22 has proved to be unsatisfactory and better things were predicted during coaling and watering of the locomotives at Aberystwyth . |
| 11 | They have proved to be adaptable to a wide variety of climates and environments , able to tolerate heat and cold and with a high resistance to disease . |
| 12 | But until this has actually proved to be possible — and Jakobson would have denied that it is — it seems reasonable to accept that both kinds of equivalence constitute a distinguishing feature , if not of all poetic language , at least of a great deal of it . |
| 13 | Whereas a strategy of incorporation can be relatively successful when applied by a regime of right-wing orientation which is prepared to support it with repression , it has proved to be ineffective for leftist groups which claim to be advancing the interests of the working class . |
| 14 | Interviewed on RTE Radio , Mr Spring said the killings underlined the need for inter-party political talks to resume , while Mr Hume said the use of internment had proved to be counter-productive in the past . |
| 15 | Unfortunately jumping to conclusions as a practice has a poor track record since , so frequently , they are proved to be inadequate or wrong . |
| 16 | This can only be achieved by working prospectively on the child 's future environment and by deciding which new experiences may be introduced to compensate for those which , in the past , have proved to be inadequate for language development . |
| 17 | The main reason why there is currently no overall theory of language comprehension is that the relatively simple models which have been empirically tested have proved to be inadequate . |
| 18 | On various occasions the resources of the EC have proved to be inadequate to meet the growing demands placed upon the budget . |
| 19 | Hugh Price Hughes chastised the 1896 Free Church Council meetings for its vociferousness and insisted that all should ‘ submit to those restraints and regulations which the experience of the greatest representative assemblies of the world has proved to be necessary to an intelligent participation in the business as it proceeds ’ . |
| 20 | Seasonal dummies also proved to be necessary — eurodollar issuance follows a seasonal pattern , with a marked trough in December . |
| 21 | Certainly keeps them going on the grounds that eventually there will you know we 'll be able to say and this is what we believed this long and you know this is what has been proved to be necessary . |
| 22 | In the same way as Bayard has , finally , been bound , the miller , for all his pride and show , is proved to be impotent and emasculated by event after event , image after image , in the tale . |
| 23 | The original intention was that the client teams would be leaderless , but in some cases this has proved to be impractical . |
| 24 | Another counterexample proposed by Stoyanov ( 1979 ) has proved to be incorrect as it does not satisfy the required boundary conditions ( see Section 10.2 ) . |
| 25 | In a typically grandiose gesture , CEGB chairman Sir Walter Marshall said on television that if the inquiry rejected the board 's case on safety grounds , he would resign ‘ because it meant that the technical advice I have given to government in past years has been proved to be incorrect ’ . |
| 26 | All attempts at providing such a measure have proved to be abortive . |
| 27 | The Kennel Club and all other dog organisations are opposed to muzzling unless the dog is proved to be dangerous , but by then it 's too late . |
| 28 | Dose assessment : The account of dose calculation contained in Urquhart 's article does not allow the method he used to be completely understood , and it has proved to be impossible to obtain the ‘ fuller version ’ of the article , either from the Journal of Nuclear Information . |
| 29 | It is important that we maintain our form of help because among asylum seekers there are those who will ultimately be proved to be genuine refugees . |
| 30 | Her local newspaper , the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald , ended an account of her life with a prophesy which time has proved to be accurate : — ‘ Her memory , her deeds , and her example will live and be spoken of long after the generation who knew her personally will have passed away . ’ |