Example sentences of "prove [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 2 | And though the winner was US-bred , owned by a Saudi Arabian prince and ridden by an Irish-born jockey , this was a moment of the utmost sweetness for British racing , for Dancing Brave , here proving himself the horse of the decade by treating with contempt an international field of the highest quality , was trained in Sussex by Guy Harwood . |
| 3 | David Holford , the West Indies team manager , said : ‘ It seems that the strain of at last proving himself on English wickets last year has had an adverse effect on his form . ’ |
| 4 | The Prince Napoleon-Jerome had from the inauguration of the Empire been a constant , and public , critic of his cousin 's policies , proving himself to be at best an embarrassment , at worst a threat to the regime . |
| 5 | The time of proving himself was over ; John Cranko now held an official and important post in the Sadler 's Wells organization , only four and a half years after arriving in Britain as a student at the Sadler 's Wells school . |
| 6 | He was posted first to Reading , and was soon proving himself a soldier and horseman of rare incompetence . |
| 7 | No doubt busy proving himself to his latest admirer . |
| 8 | ‘ I go by there most days , ’ said the farmer , proving himself to be the sort of chap who does not mess about but gets straight to the point . |
| 9 | His interest is unashamedly antiquarian and he condemns the iconoclasm of the early Christians , proving himself a true product of the twelfth-century Renaissance . |
| 10 | But as he adapts to his new environment , Freddie 's proving himself to be a survivor capable of keeping everyone on the hop . |
| 11 | After proving himself best mathematician at Bath University , Gore had developed behavioural problems . |
| 12 | I think Imamu takes the most slack when it comes to proving himself because he is always around to hear the people who criticize him , where as although Boo is criticized , he is not there to hear it , seeing as he is locked up inside his house . |
| 13 | Farr-Jones has not only proven himself to be the world 's leading scrum-half , but his captaincy over the past four years has grown in maturity and stature with each test and tour match . |
| 14 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 15 | Britain was proving itself to be better than the ungovernable ‘ banana republic ’ of hostile critics in 1975–6 , but still an ailing ex-imperial giant lacking focus and perhaps even faith . |
| 16 | Tolkien 's romance was an amalgam , then , and a potent one ; and its improbable success in his sixties lay not just in proving itself a bestseller but in making of itself the heart and mind of an international cult : a cult that was to spread to England from romantically-minded lands like California and the Antipodes . |
| 17 | The strategy we put in place in 1989 is proving itself robust during a period of great volatility in the industry . |
| 18 | Workhouse building , despite the permitting of parishes to combine for the purpose in 1723 , was until 1750 largely an urban phenomenon , for in the countryside out-relief was proving itself a more flexible and still not frighteningly expensive option . |
| 19 | One example in Torquay , Devon , has proven itself over a few years . |
| 20 | As will gradually become evident , the AEC has proven itself to be an unambiguous success . |
| 21 | The immense strength of the British built Ocean 60 's construction is well known and the design has proven itself with circumnavigations , very successful charter operations and shorthanded family cruising . |
| 22 | She had tried to be better than someone else and ended up proving herself even worse . |
| 23 | Her new position made her nervous but she kept breathing deeply to conquer it , and looked forward to proving herself worthy of the promotion . |
| 24 | Now , after all the years of struggling against the critical tide , Anne Rice is proving herself master , or rather mistress , of her own destiny . |
| 25 | For Japanese to be discriminated against because of the colour of their skin , despite Japan 's success in proving herself the military and political equal of other powers , implied the virtual impossibility of Japan 's being accepted as a full equal by the industrialized nations of the West . |
| 26 | " Oh , talk sense , " she was proving herself beyond reason , and unsuccessful as well . |
| 27 | ENCHANTA has proven herself , having sailed in most of the oceans of the world and has performed admirably , whether for long distance cruising , day sailing , or corporate entertaining . |
| 28 | Ideally , a broodmare will have proven herself under saddle — a test of temperament as well as soundness . |
| 29 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
| 30 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |