Example sentences of "had been proved [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not been surprised to learn that the accountant Morris had been proved innocent of any crime and had pointed the finger at Spencer Grenfell . |
| 2 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 3 | And yesterday she had been proved right . |
| 4 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 5 | He had been proved right , but how could it be ? |
| 6 | Ironically , the observations of Captain FitzRoy , the orthodox Creationist , had been proved right . |
| 7 | The school 's decision not to become involved in testing had been proved right . |
| 8 | Whatham 's hunch in casting Crawford , who sported a neatly cut beard for the role , had been proved correct . |
| 9 | He was pleased in a way that his advice had been proved good , but he did n't like the thought that a woman was catching up with him . |
| 10 | Many of these boats had been supplied to foreign naval powers and had been proved able and fast in all sea conditions . |
| 11 | Now the family 's fears had been proved groundless , the bungled pay-off could be dismissed as just another example of clumsy incompetence on the part of the police , the latest in a long list of blunders . |
| 12 | He had been proved mistaken and had probably suffered a somewhat humiliating rebuff from his superior officer . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the " crisis " brought about by the discovery that unc is not a rational number clearly called for rigorous investigation : after all , the intuitively " true " had been proved false ! |
| 14 | The new device 's distributors , the Innovations mail order company , insisted however that it had been proved safe in laboratory tests . |
| 15 | Mabel had told everyone that she was sure that war was about to start , and at first she seemed disgruntled that she had been proved wrong , but soon was as ecstatic as everyone else about the news . |
| 16 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |