Example sentences of "[verb] proved a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence has proved a master of communication and a breath of fresh air to North-East sportswriters . |
| 2 | The student loans scheme has proved a success . |
| 3 | The scheme , which also includes £60 per goal , was only introduced this season and it certainly has proved a success . |
| 4 | The sortie into the English market has proved a success with the London office already having generated nearly £1.5 million of new business . |
| 5 | Mr John MacGregor inherits Transport , which has proved a bed of nails for a succession of Secretaries of State . |
| 6 | In descent the Grand Dru has proved a problem for many , even though the guidebook is both plain and correct in its detail . |
| 7 | The average employee 's grasp of French , let alone Japanese , is n't what it could be … and the language barrier has proved a problem . |
| 8 | It must have been a daunting task to know how to encompass and animate such an extensive and familiar subject , but the Royal College of Art , which was commissioned to organise and design the event , enlisted that most reliable of cultural populists , John Julius Norwich , to curate , and he has proved a model of Dimblebyan dependability , as well as introducing the commendably brief but informative and well laid-out catalogue . |
| 9 | AUSTRALIA 's snap general election , called for early next month , has proved a bonanza for Australian scientists . |
| 10 | Freedom is valuable and is valued by the public as an end in itself , but as a means to an end it has proved a failure . |
| 11 | Competition in the NHS to date , largely in terms of ancillary services , has proved a failure with a major decline in standards and a major assault on the employment rights of NHS ancillary workers , the majority of whom are women . |
| 12 | That would give you the bare bones of The Prince of the Pagodas , but not much idea of the richness of Benjamin Britten 's score which , paradoxically , has proved a stumbling block in the work 's history . |
| 13 | This filter has proved a boom to keepers of sensitive fish by keeping nitrate levels under control but its operation needs to be constantly monitored . |
| 14 | Shyness in this instance has proved a virtue and its resulting insularity and independence a blessing . |
| 15 | CLARE Hardy 's third year option in Serbo-Croat has proved a basis for a satisfying though highly specialised career . |
| 16 | He did n't do badly in F. Ford , but F3 beckoned soon enough , a step which his biographer Eion Young rightly says proved a rite of passage from racing as a hobby to racing as a profession . |
| 17 | Filling in the details on the marriage certificate may have proved a problem for Benjamin : his mother was now past hope in the workhouse , and his father had died when he himself was less than two years old . |
| 18 | These last heady hours in his arms had proved a chimera , a mirage after all . |
| 19 | The grain had been promised in July , but the limited capacity of Albanian ports had proved a problem . |
| 20 | Sergeant Potter had proved a godsend for the shooting , but the rest of their training was just a mess , the swimming and the running . |
| 21 | As more and more stone-filled gabions were built in to reduce the erosion which the scheme had set in train , it became apparent that Pandora 's box had been opened , and that what might have worked as a piece of traditional river canalization in the cohesive sediments found downstream had proved a recipe for disaster when applied in the unstable gravels of this upland brook . |
| 22 | The German soldiers — who had learned their fighting on the Russian Front , at Monte Cassino and through the hedgerows of Normandy — had proved a match for the guerrillas , and it was only the indifference and boredom of the French public to a war which proved astronomically expensive in financial and human terms which led the French government to seek a political settlement . |
| 23 | The Communist Party newspaper , Neues Deutschland , in a draft proposal for a new party programme , admitted that ‘ state-administered socialism ’ had proved a failure . |
| 24 | For Russia , for the Allies , the brief campaign had proved a disaster of unsurpassed magnitude and marked the beginning of the disintegration of the Russian Army . |
| 25 | The abolition of private enterprise in Russia had proved a disaster . |
| 26 | His mother , he would say , had left home after such a humiliation , taking the three children on what had proved a pilgrimage of terror ; he thanked God he had been nine years old and able to run off and fend for himself . |
| 27 | THOSE McDonalds of the car repair trade , the fast-fit centres , have proved a hit with Ulster motorists . |
| 28 | The intricacies of association which link Creation and the Millennium to his personal hopes , griefs and anxieties have proved a minefield for scholars . |
| 29 | These have proved a boon to many occasional users of complex applications , and by making different applications function in similar ways can considerably reduce re-training time . |
| 30 | Mr Jones said the NSA was fortunate in having Mr John Gittins and his family as hosts because they had been a pioneer of land improvement , while recognising the importance of conservation , and had been at the forefront in developing new commercial crossbred sheep which have proved a boon for Welsh farmers and their market awareness . |