Example sentences of "prove [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosie Fortinbras had proved to be of minimal use as a source of information . |
| 2 | The economy , versatility and ease of use of these systems has proved to be of real benefit in designing their domestic and commercial structures . |
| 3 | The disposal of both nuclear and non-nuclear wastes has proved to be of major public concern in recent years . |
| 4 | The EAT has proved to be of major importance in clarifying and elaborating the rules contained in the statutory material . |
| 5 | This has proved to be of major benefit to those planning coverage of sport and to those staging the events and seeking publicity . |
| 6 | This has proved to be of major benefit to those planning coverage of sport and to those staging the events and seeking publicity . |
| 7 | There is no doubt that gas has proved to be of great benefit to the Netherlands but as in the case of the UK , with its North Sea oil bonanza , various consequences of hydrocarbon wealth , such as a strengthening home currency , tended to precipitate industrial decline in some sectors of the economy and in the case of the Netherlands , the costs of developing a gas infrastructure outweighed the return for some years . |
| 8 | The items I have found on such sites have proved to be of great interest , and I have been logging them down very carefully . |
| 9 | It has proved to be of great popular interest and audiences of more than 200 people have attended the series of lectures on ‘ Studying the Scottish Home ’ , which were held in the Royal Museum of Scotland this winter . |
| 10 | Pollen analysis from samples taken on the spot have proved to be of prehistoric vegetation , while carbon dating of fragments of burnt wood have suggested a date of roughly 16,500 BC . |
| 11 | And even this journal has rejected papers that subsequently proved to be of exceptional significance . |
| 12 | It has proved to be of particular benefit to sales people during a sales appointment with a client . |
| 13 | Pieces which have proved to be of enduring worth have passed from special conference song books into collections with a wider circulation . |
| 14 | Although none of the autoantibodies have been proved to be of pathogenetic significance , it has been shown , both in Crohn 's disease and in ulcerative colitis , that IgG and complement can be present on the apical surface of enterocytes in vivo , possibly indicating a pathogenetic role for anti-epithelial/anti-brush border antibodies in inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 15 | But perhaps I 'm going to be proved to be over innocent in thinking that is a viable approach . |
| 16 | This has proved to be over optimistic as Haymarket was forced to withdraw from the purchase after a key investor pulled out . |
| 17 | Luckily every one of the 56 removed proved to be in good health . |
| 18 | The only substantial markets have proven to be in dedicated applications . |
| 19 | The Attlee government baulked at local government reform by boundary revision , the Local Government Boundary Commission which it had set up , proving to be of short-lived duration . |
| 20 | In practice the phenothiazines and lithium proved to be of great importance in managing schizophrenia and mania , respectively , and in helping to restore many patients to everyday life . |
| 21 | The Kingman Report proved to be of great value to my Working Group . |
| 22 | This disturbing event proved to be of great significance , since it taught me never to allow ideas to become rooted in the mind . |
| 23 | The compound was tried clinically , and proved to be of considerable benefit to a number of patients , but Swedish physicians were somewhat sceptical . |
| 24 | The result was that a great deal of effort went into recording the habitats seen to be under threat , and the material collated within the Symposium volume ( Boyd , 1979b ) proved to be of immense value . |
| 25 | He was largely responsible for organising the supply of machinery and equipment to be fitted in the bare hulls to be built in the yards of British Columbia — an industry which proved to be of vital importance during the Second World War . |
| 26 | The high frequencies were tamed and a spectrum calculated which proved to be in perfect agreement with experiment . |
| 27 | These efforts proved to be in vain for the most part . |
| 28 | While the linen canvas , comprising six horizontal strips , proved to be in good condition , the original varnish had turned brown with age , dulling colours and giving an overall yellowish hue to the work . |
| 29 | With hindsight , it is difficult to see quite the radical innovation variable analysis proved to be in social research . |
| 30 | I have seen enough to believe that the materials , over time , will prove to be of real help to teachers trying to solve their own problems by enabling them to see what support there is in the sharing of difficulties and by strengthening the belief that efficient discussion can lead to effective action . |