Example sentences of "has proved [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 2 | One way forward that has proved helpful to a number of people is franchise management . |
| 3 | The hierarchical structure of local viewdata has been found useful in the teaching of classification and in the sorting of ideas from the general to the specific which has proved helpful in note making , especially in the graphic form . |
| 4 | Competitive innovation has proved decisive in many industries over the last two decades in determining which firms assume leadership positions and which disappear . |
| 5 | Any compiler of a catalogue raisonné will have seen and compared all the works listed , or will scruple to state if some work has proved inaccessible . |
| 6 | Yet whenever he has steered in the defence trials , his helmsmanship has proved deficient . |
| 7 | Fire has proved impotent against the unyielding stone of the walls . |
| 8 | For various reasons it has proved impractical to find or create any alternative access to the port and that is likely to remain the position at least until the third Medway crossing and northern link road project comes to pass . |
| 9 | What I found repulsive has proved riveting for hundreds of thousands of Americans who see in this unbridled narcissism a refreshing naturalism . |
| 10 | In point of fact , for my Uaru tank , I would probably simply potter out to the garden , where I have piles of our local rock , which seems to be a metamorphosed sandstone , and has proved inert during years of use . |
| 11 | Experience gained in the design and construction of the CADDIS prototype has proved useful in formulating the content and nature of more advanced work currently being carried out by British Airways . |
| 12 | So for him the public sector has proved useful and at present he is a non-executive director of the Defence Research Agency Council . |
| 13 | One analysis which has proved useful is to look at the issue as a process of dealing with information , and to define the skills involved in this process as information skills ( Winkworth , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | The notion that the cognitive processing necessary for one task can be assessed by measuring the spare capacity available for allocation to a second task is one that has proved useful in several areas of psychology ( Kalsbeek and Sykes , 1967 ) . |
| 15 | Problem solving is a strategy that has proved useful , especially with older pupils at Key Stages 3 and 4 . |
| 16 | On game farms , therapy with levamisole in the drinking water has proved useful , but it is more important that pens should be moved regularly to prevent the accumulation of larvae . |
| 17 | That has proved inadequate ( if it ever was adequate ) in a larger and heterogeneous City — as the Financial Services Act 1986 reminds us . |
| 18 | The level of funding has proved inadequate on several occasions ( Eros and Americana failures in 1983 and Budget Travel in 1984 , for instance ) . |
| 19 | 2 ) Rightwards flowing information predominates only where left context has proved inadequate for disambiguation . |
| 20 | We see no evidence that the code , as recently strengthened , has proved inadequate . |
| 21 | ‘ The approved evidential breath testing device can not be used on this occasion because the calibration check has proved unsatisfactory . |
| 22 | The search for such a planet has proved unsuccessful — which is something of a mystery , because a planet of that size should be reasonably easy to find . |
| 23 | Dance in all its aspects has proved capable of embracing the whole range of emotions and behaviour that emerge from a proper reading and understanding of the text . |
| 24 | As well as enabling the delivery of flexible training programmes to meet the needs of employers and individuals , the National Certificate has proved capable of responding to new education and training initiatives ; for example TVEI and Employment Training ; of providing a basis for access to Higher Education courses ; and of delivering vocational education and curriculum enrichment in schools . |
| 25 | Things did n't quite go to plan — which has proved annoying for you , and you 're now asking for a second service ; for which you 'll pay me . ’ |
| 26 | The bill has proved controversial , especially over the issue of whether deep burial should be considered permanent or not . |
| 27 | Its coat colour and pigmented skin are valued in hot climates where it has proved resistant to eye cancer and also , to some extent , to ticks . |
| 28 | Revusky ( 1971 , 1977 ) has developed an account of the role of interference effects in associative learning that has proved applicable to a wide range of phenomena . |
| 29 | THE lure of 20 per cent off the cost of a portion of fish ‘ n ’ chips at Harry Ramsden 's Yorkshire restaurant has proved irresistable to thousands of small investors . |
| 30 | Creating a brand-new department at BZW has proved expensive ( annual costs run at £20m-30m ) , which is raising internal questions about its viability . |