Example sentences of "prove to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anti-snake devices have been proved to be worth while . |
| 2 | The 1980s certainly proved to be the age of the train , but not the age of the ATP as this entrance barrier at Glasgow Central proclaims in May 1983 . |
| 3 | The PC expansion card is not the only standard to host DSPs ; VME boards have also proved to be a popular choice with several manufacturers . |
| 4 | Thomas Hardy , of an older generation , had implicitly claimed to be , and in the event had proved to be , a profoundly Virgilian poet . |
| 5 | If the deals are proved to be legal , ‘ it is a potentially grave situation ’ since the ratepayers and future community charge payers would have to meet the bill . |
| 6 | A stand-up , straight-backed style has proved to be less effective against professional opponents although Biggs claims that attempts to make him more aggressive were counter-productive against Tyson . |
| 7 | The warm weather which helped Etam in the summer has proved to be a disadvantage in the run-up to autumn trading and the chairman , Alan Howard , says the group has been trading slightly below budgeted levels . |
| 8 | Although the report did not allude to the possibility of fraud , it has proved to be prophetic in a number of respects . |
| 9 | Some of the social and economic assumptions on which Beveridge and other pioneers had based their welfare schemes had been proved to be over-optimistic . |
| 10 | ‘ Battle of Britain ’ made his racing debut at Wolverhampton in April 1991 and since then , the colt trained in Lancashire by Jack Berry , has certainly proved to be winner as the photograph shows . |
| 11 | This is certainly not a mainstream industry practice and the instances where this has occurred have largely proved to be cases of cleverly couched extortion . |
| 12 | One is that the cradle to grave provision of welfare , implicit in the Beveridge proposals , has proved to be too expensive and that the demand for welfare has grown faster than has the national income to pay for adequate comprehensive services and benefits . |
| 13 | In foreign affairs Mrs Thatcher has proved to be something of a ‘ little Englander ’ . |
| 14 | Britain has proved to be one of the least ‘ community-minded ’ members of the EEC and has for long been at odds with other states about the level of British contributions to the EEC budget . |
| 15 | Whereas Haslam has found that a detached outside perspective has proved to be valuable in several of the companies he has served as a board member , his early intimate knowledge of the coal industry was equally beneficial when he was asked to become chairman of British Coal , bringing his career full circle . |
| 16 | In some cases such strife has proved to be recurrent over twenty years , as in Zaire , Sudan , and Burundi and in others more or less endemic , as in Chad and Uganda and in Ethiopia in its fight to contain Eritrea . |
| 17 | While justified in reaction to the dominance of foreign investment at the time of independence , it has proved to be a very expensive strategy . |
| 18 | The WRAC recruits have proved to be excellent shots and many of the scores achieved would be the envy of their male counterparts . |
| 19 | More importantly , the existing upper floor of this outshot proved to be too close to the lean-to roof to give a habitable room-height , so rather than raise up the roof level of the entire extension , it was decided to reduce the level of the upper floor to create adequate headroom . |
| 20 | It has proved to be a great grace for the Church . |
| 21 | Outsiders had proved to be ‘ crooks and liars who covered their positions with empty slogans ’ . |
| 22 | The uranium ore he was carrying had not proved to be radioactive , his lawyer said . |
| 23 | This dilemma for a game with millions of followers worldwide has proved to be a ‘ bunch of sixes ’ opportunity for Welsh inventor Don Hughes , a self-confessed liardice buff , who claims to have beaten the Far East electronics industry literally at its own game by developing an electronic version that is hardly bigger than a credit card . |
| 24 | His decision to drop Hughes to see if McClair could recover his striking form of the season before last proved to be popular only with Palace . |
| 25 | The Korean rearmament programme soon proved to be too ambitious for Britain 's fragile economy and fatal to Attlee 's Labour Government . |
| 26 | The porpoises delight in riding on the bow waves of motor boats , which has frequently proved to be a fatal mistake . |
| 27 | So far he has proved to be no stern ayatollah . |
| 28 | Ramon Mitra has proved to be a competent Speaker in the House of Representatives . |
| 29 | Mr Kohl 's glossy coating of the bitter pill of economic union undoubtedly won him votes , but the coating has already proved to be thin . |
| 30 | He has proved to be an excellent literary scholar . |