Example sentences of "proved [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It proved of little value , and had to be abandoned within twenty years . |
| 2 | This not only saved the art of riding , but proved of great benefit to the horse . ’ |
| 3 | Sons of Harras were also imported to the USA and they also proved of great importance . |
| 4 | Between 1965 and 1969 US troop levels in South Vietnam mushroomed to over half a million , but proved of limited use against a determined guerrilla army whose members were indistinguishable from the people America was trying to defend . |
| 5 | A Monetary Co-operation Fund , to give support to weak currencies , was set up in April 1973 , but proved of limited value . |
| 6 | His book Town planning and road traffic ( Tripp , 1942 ) proved of seminal importance . |
| 7 | Lowther was an active parliamentarian , serving on 141 committees during his first decade , during which he was a reliable supporter of the government and received a grant of lands between the tides at St Bees–Whitehaven from Charles II which proved of considerable importance in his local battles . |
| 8 | It proved in due course , and in its own degree , the Life of a Great Sinner itself . |
| 9 | Once again she split the party and proved in subsequent elections that the people regarded her family as the real Congress . |
| 10 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 11 | This proved to many people 's satisfaction that Edison 's ‘ re-creation ’ was indistinguishable from the original . |
| 12 | She giggled suddenly and took another swig from the bottle , carelessly wiping away the champagne that trickled down the sides of her mouth with the back of her hand , in a gesture that proved to this man she was n't the least bit impressed or intimidated by his overbearing attitude . |
| 13 | Baxter 's military career was a resolute failure , it proved beyond reasonable doubt that the codes of discipline would never tame Slim Jim . |
| 14 | perhaps the single most important effect of the Cuban revolution was that it proved beyond all doubt that Marxism was not an exclusively European doctrine and that it could be applied successfully in Latin America . |
| 15 | But I think that secretly the vice-chancellor and the other grown-ups were delighted by this kind of behaviour , as it proved beyond any reasonable doubt that we were students and they were teachers . |
| 16 | Er would my right honourable friend agree with me that the appearance of Jerry Adams on the Walden programme proved beyond any doubt that whatever Sinn Fein say Sinn Fein have rejected the er Downing Street declaration . |
| 17 | The impulse proved at first a happy one , for in the graveyard Miss Fergusson discovered tombstones and crosses whose Celtic air recalled those of her native Ireland ; a smile of approval crossed her dutiful features . |