Example sentences of "to prove [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can one charge be easier to prove than the other ? |
| 2 | Whether in Britain , litigious America or anywhere else , it is hard to prove that a single drug is responsible for causing harm , especially if patients are being prescribed a cocktail of medicines . |
| 3 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |
| 4 | Unlike their Mancunian rivals New Order , they were willing to prove that a sense of style was n't necessarily a barometer of blandness . |
| 5 | I wanted to prove that a man using only natural supply and watering points could cross it without a camel or motor vehicle . |
| 6 | What is even more remarkable against this background is that modern science has now not only taken an interest in the mystical art of the Zodiac , but is actually trying to prove that a person 's stars do have an effect . |
| 7 | It would be difficult to prove that a buyer had notice . |
| 8 | The patent contains eight pages of mathematical formulae which purport to prove that a microphone will have much better directional characteristics if the holes are spaced at irregular or non-linear intervals . |
| 9 | Most importantly , they wanted to prove that a cooperative venture could compete on the open market with conventional firms — while turning down work that did not fit its principles . |
| 10 | The past decade has seen immense progress in elucidating the scientific basis for a proper discipline of programming : it is now possible to prove that a computer program meets its specification , in much the same way that mathematicians and engineers know how to prove the correctness of a proposed solution to the relevant differential equations . |
| 11 | At the moment the Parks have to prove that a proposed development is not in keeping with the environment if they want to turn down planning applications . |
| 12 | Under the law prior to that date , the onus was on the prosecution to prove that a person in such circumstances knew , first , of the presence of the pistol and , second , that it was unlicensed . |
| 13 | Nearly 30 separate documents can be used to prove that a man or woman is eligible to work , and employers are not required to verify any of them . |
| 14 | They were motivated partly by concern about the continuing extent of the problems and by a desire to prove that a free trade economy was compatible with social improvement . |
| 15 | The strategy of this particular proof is to head directly from hypothesis to conclusion as follows : Let a be any prime element of Z. We wish to prove that a is irreducible . |
| 16 | For instance , it is no use trying to prove that a certain sequence of steps will lead to supper if you do n't know what is in your larder . |
| 17 | as if to prove that a Shetlander 's work is never done , the same storms that sank the Braer and then cleaned away the oil caused erosion of the coast along the edge of the unexcavated portion of Jarlshof , and emergency coastal defences had to be installed prior to the provision of a permanent seawall . |
| 18 | Because coeliac disease may be asymptomatic it is difficult to prove that a monoclonal lymphocytic intestinal infiltrate can develop in previously normal bowel . |
| 19 | JACK BERRY went ton up for the second time with two Warwick winners yesterday , just to prove that no one needs a magic carpet to be a hit . |
| 20 | The question of " substance " may be significant — it is not necessary to prove that every single fact stated in a criticism is accurate , so long as its " sting " , ( its defamatory impact ) is substantially true . |
| 21 | Mrs Nutt submitted that it would be difficult , if not impossible , for the appellant to try and set about to prove that the co-defendant had not committed an act of gross indecency with him , that he was in effect deprived of any opportunity of cross-examining or otherwise challenging the co-defendant and that to admit the evidence would be simply to render the proceedings against the appellant wholly unfair . |
| 22 | But the moment alone was enough to prove that the Soviet authorities are sincere in their efforts to resolve the riddle of a romantic , mythical figure who single-handedly saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews in wartime Budapest before disappearing for ever , at the start of 1945 , into the darkness of Stalin 's Russia . |
| 23 | as if to prove that the National Hunt supermen that brought off this latest feat are in fact human , Pipe admitted that he got it badly wrong over his assessment of In-Keeping . |
| 24 | This new vision began to prove that the more you strip the documents the more mysterious they are found to be . |
| 25 | It would surely be difficult to prove that the terms of the theory were prescribed by political requirements . |
| 26 | Claire Sterling sets out to prove that the Sicilian Mafia is an omnipotent organisation rapidly infiltrating the above-ground economy . |
| 27 | But the rigour of the criminal law is relaxed in her favour by the provision of the same Act that , on a charge against her for any offence , other than treason or murder , it is a good defence to prove that the offence was committed in the presence of and under the coercion of her husband . |
| 28 | A judicial separation may be obtained upon proof of any one of the five bases for divorce mentioned above , save that there is no need to prove that the marriage has broken down irretrievably . |
| 29 | He ended his hour-long presentation with the words , ‘ We are on our way toward making the division one of the best goddamned outfits in overseas operations , and I just want to be given the chance to prove that the plan which I have outlined to you today is the right one for the British operation , for Europe and for the Corporation . ’ |
| 30 | But in attempting to become Asia 's first holder of the game 's ultimate prize , the rising star of the East aims to prove that the ‘ the twain ’ can not only meet but , by harnessing the best of both hemispheres , he can bring a new dimension to the green baize . |