Example sentences of "have proved [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , the suggestions about self-governing Trusts , contracting for services and general practice budgets have proved particularly contentious . |
| 2 | Which is why this latest model is so clever , cunningly disguised as it is to resemble a foot-controlled multi-effect processor — possibly the only avenue of hi-tech guitarists have proved particularly willing to tread . |
| 3 | With profit and income being tax-free , they have proved particularly attractive to high-rate tax-payers . |
| 4 | As yet , however , such initiatives have proved largely unfruitful . |
| 5 | Their fears have proved largely unfounded . |
| 6 | However , the actual reproduction or modernist form over the last century and a half has revealed exactly the opposite tendency , since objects formed entirely on the basis of utility have proved singularly unattractive ( which accounts for their general absence from commercial marketing ) . |
| 7 | They have proved enormously successful in both commercial and aesthetic terms . |
| 8 | The stream of novels that followed the coronation of realism in 1953 may in all likelihood have proved even wider , in scope and tolerance , than the founders of the school ever dared to hope or to expect . |
| 9 | Its organizational form — a small core staff and extensive sub-contracting to consultants — together with the advantages of political stability , administrative simplicity and speed of implementation offered by an agency rationale , have proved well suited to redeveloping a derelict dockland estate . |
| 10 | All chemical tests have proved OK . |
| 11 | Mountain Equipment 's Freestyle trousers ( £38 ) — part of their Compak range — have proved both durable and comfortable , as have the Summer Legs from Field and Trek ( £36 ) . |
| 12 | These chop the DNA up into pieces which the cell can degrade and excrete ( restriction enzymes have proved immensely useful for manipulating DNA in the laboratory ) . |
| 13 | New tests have proved conclusively that cats can appreciate the presence of sweet tastes . |
| 14 | ‘ We have proved conclusively that the human is more than a body and a limited intellect . |
| 15 | Hawking ( 1972 ) and others have proved rigorously that a full description of any black hole requires just three parameters ; these are the total mass M , the total charge Q , and the total angular momentum or spin J of the black hole . |
| 16 | In spite of the separate developments of the three companies in the past , dam lines based on the two major white breeds with the addition of the Danish Duroc blood for outdoor rearing , have proved remarkably similar , while boars had been developed to produce meat suitable for distinct markets , such as Parma ham in Italy . |
| 17 | These developments have proved neither effective nor economical . |
| 18 | I hope that we have proved today that SQL Server is well proven advanced technology , Replication Server enables us to deliver data to who needs it , where they need it , when they need it even if there are system failures , that Navigation Server provides us with a high capacity with a low entry cost , that Omni SQL Gateway enables us to have complete vendor transparency and integrate all information for decision support . |
| 19 | Renowned for their political militancy , the miners have proved tragically unable to maintain this political leverage once the economic power was taken from them . |
| 20 | The last six months have proved somewhat hectic for Watt and full of the unexpected . |
| 21 | Second , in the cases where the previous management was not invited to stay on , or declined to do so , lower levels of efficiency in management have proved disastrously expensive . |
| 22 | Three matches in six days since winning the ZDS Cup have proved too much and former Forest favourite Trevor Francis ' lively Wednesday were rarely troubled while two more Forest old boys , Wilson and Sheridan , ran the midfield . |
| 23 | Subscribers may have noticed the scepticism with which we have tended to greet analysts ' forecasts for IBM Corp 's earnings , and invariably their forecasts have proved too optimistic — but it seems to take time for the true awfulness of the situation to sink in with them . |
| 24 | Recently , however , there has been some criticism and some arguments about its structure , in addition to the more long-standing discussion of how far ministers can dominate their departments and how far civil service practices and attitudes have proved too much for the politicians . |
| 25 | Unfortunately such systems have proved too hard to use for non-experts and too inflexible to support learning rather than training . |
| 26 | It 's the shops and small businesses who 've suffered the most , and for many , the last twelve months have proved too tough for them to survive . |
| 27 | Few concept cars have proved as significant and trend-setting as Pininfarina 's Dino Berlinetta Speciale , introduced to universal acclaim at the 1965 Paris motor show . |
| 28 | In the event , some of the consequences of the solution have proved as irksome as the problem , but they have done the trick . |
| 29 | As predicted , his offbreaks have proved as persuasive in the shorter game as his sublime strokeplay has been in the longer one . |
| 30 | Co-productions with the Royal Opera have proved as vital for London as St Petersburg , and Gergiev was quite happy that Covent Garden 's lap of The Fiery Angel should be conducted by Sir Edward Downes ( ‘ it is clear to both of us that Prokofiev deserves what has happened , he deserved it long ago , and I 'm only glad it happened in my time ’ ) . |