Example sentences of "prove so " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hope it will prove so complex and costly to implement that the company may finally decide that mining in Mayo simply is n't worth the trouble . |
| 2 | I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so . |
| 3 | A well-presented summary section may prove so compelling that the rest of the report is hardly questioned or challenged . |
| 4 | This is where rewards can prove so useful — as ‘ starters ’ . |
| 5 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
| 6 | This does , however , prove so difficult in most cases that it is not recommended . |
| 7 | Under conditions of more stable enterprise relations the forms of short-term economic calculation which are predominant in Western enterprises do not prove so necessary . |
| 8 | Why a structure that had originally been a smell-brain should prove so useful when taken over by other senses is not clear . |
| 9 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 10 | This would not prove so easy . |
| 11 | It should prove so for the first killer as well . |
| 12 | In view of this irksome journey to Keswick , not surprisingly , regard was given to the possibility of setting up smelt houses at Coniston : " … if the Mynes hereafter should hereafter prove so rich as to countervale the charges of erecting any worke houses , there is more there about but water sufficient to make some competent buildings and good store both a wood & peets at more easy rates than at Keswick if the said wood may be preserved for those uses … " |
| 13 | Economic and social conditions in the 1990s may prove so unlike the previous decade that CD-X purchases may either be much greater than CD-A or significantly less . |
| 14 | He had no idea the club would prove so popular — with 750 members joining in the first 5 months . |