Example sentences of "proved [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its demise in Britain , the Red Poll ( like other red breeds ) is more appreciated overseas where it has proved tolerant of both cold and hot climates . |
| 2 | As a style , and even more as a politics , the transgressive reinscriptions practised by such writers have proved controversial , especially when grounded in the celebration of a perverse inauthenticity disturbingly implicated in authenticity itself , as in Genet . |
| 3 | Grant notes that ‘ proposals for reducing the scope of planning intervention have always proved controversial ’ . |
| 4 | Plans to airlift up to half of the wild Javan rhinos to new reserves have proved controversial . |
| 5 | The bill has proved controversial , especially over the issue of whether deep burial should be considered permanent or not . |
| 6 | Her holy obstinacy , her sulky refusal to bend her stubborn head to emperors , fathers , lovers , or dragons had proved strong enough to conquer even the need to kill . |
| 7 | The League of Nations imposed sanctions but those proved half-hearted and ineffective , so Italy overran Ethiopia by 9th . |
| 8 | This farming systems has proved self-sustainable for the past 2,000 years and has altered little except that summer ( wet season ) rice crops were once combined in the same fields with winter ( dry season ) legumes , whereas the winter crop is now wheat . |
| 9 | The gains in the host countries have sometimes proved short-lived , with the initial advantages being eroded by competition from other countries , as we elaborate in chapter 4 . |
| 10 | If his achievement had been consolidated , a new and formidable political and military order might have been established which could have proved resilient to subsequent Mercian attack . |
| 11 | Local centres have mainly proved resilient , but financial cutbacks by the banks have meant a decline in the numbers attending local dinners . |
| 12 | In spite of a heavy fall in Tokyo overnight , the London market proved resilient this morning with bear closing a firm future 's market and the weight of institutional cash providing support . |
| 13 | The principle that a man is innocent until proved guilty has recently been subverted , though few have noticed . |
| 14 | In one case in 1944 , Scott LJ stated that the ‘ British principle of personal freedom , that every man should be presumed innocent until he is proved guilty , applies also to the police function of arrest — in a very modified degree , it is true , but at least to the extent of requiring them to be observant , receptive and open-minded and to notice any relevant circumstance which points either way , either to innocence or to guilt ’ . |
| 15 | It seems that he was only proved guilty on one count of perverting the actual course of justice , but even so , the practice of a judge receiving presents at all made perversion more likely , and Bacon 's ingenious distinctions may be thought to differentiate between degrees of corruption rather than between guilt and innocence . |
| 16 | ‘ And you were going to say that the accused was guilty , before the end of the trial , before he has been proved guilty ! ’ |
| 17 | Some lawyers in the Soviet Union advocated the adoption of the Western principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty , but met with little success until the Gorbachev period . |
| 18 | Whatever happened to the concept that a person is innocent until proved guilty ? ’ |
| 19 | Even though I did not draw even 15th in the ballot and can offer neither blackmail nor whitemail , I hope that there will be a firm commitment from my right hon. and learned Friend , endorsed by the Opposition parties , that the law needs to be amended , not to restrict in any way the freedom of those who are innocent until proved guilty but to prevent the vile calumny which we are discussing from being perpetrated again . |
| 20 | If they are proved guilty we wo n't trade with them anymore . |
| 21 | In the eyes of the law , they 're innocent until they 're proved guilty . |
| 22 | As I feared , the paperwork and costings for all possibilities have proved extensive and it serves no purpose at all to copy that paperwork which is really only reference material . |
| 23 | Mining communities have always proved admirable in that way . |
| 24 | For various reasons it has proved impractical to find or create any alternative access to the port and that is likely to remain the position at least until the third Medway crossing and northern link road project comes to pass . |
| 25 | Given the miserable legislative record of the Duma and its manifest inability to impose its will on the government , the policy of clinging to the Duma in the hope that popular respect for the Russian parliament would grow proved vain . |
| 26 | It has proved possible to reach agreements that eventually ended atmospheric pollution caused by nuclear tests , that prohibited environmental modification and kept Antarctica free of nuclear weapons and military establishments . |
| 27 | Osmium tetroxide forms 1:1 and 2:1 adducts and , by using carbon 13 NMR it has proved possible to discern C60 's two types of C-C bonds ( J. M. Hawkins et al , J. Am . |
| 28 | In such cases as the United Reformed Church at Headingley Hill , Leeds , it has proved possible to retain not only the galleries and organ , but also the pulpit and rostrum arrangement at the west end . |
| 29 | It has not proved possible to locate any smaller scale surveys specific to any areas , although it is always possible that some could exist somewhere ! |
| 30 | ‘ Even in industry it has not always proved possible to cost training effectively … |