"prove" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

prove verbo

prove + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 103
prove one's point • prove one's innocence • prove one's case • prove one's worth • prove one's theory • prove one's ability • ...
verbo + prove
Kolokacji: 14
try to prove • failed to prove • need to prove • want to prove • go to prove • ...
prove + preposición
Kolokacji: 31
prove beyond • prove to • prove by • prove over • prove against • ...
prove + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 362
prove difficult • prove successful • prove popular • prove useful • prove effective • prove impossible • prove fatal • prove wrong • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 70
(3) popular, unpopular, ideal
Kolokacji: 3
(21) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(23) influential, powerful, potent
Kolokacji: 3
(35) vulnerable, weak, powerless
Kolokacji: 3
(37) resilient, eager
Kolokacji: 2
(40) superior, justified
Kolokacji: 2
(41) deadly, lethal, toxic
Kolokacji: 3
(43) actually, illusory
Kolokacji: 2
(44) worthy, suitable, unfit
Kolokacji: 3
(46) guilty, painful, uncomfortable
Kolokacji: 3
(47) small, fully, amply
Kolokacji: 3
1. prove frustrating = okaż się denerwujący prove frustrating
2. prove daunting = okaż się zniechęcający prove daunting
3. prove prohibitive = okaż się ogromny prove prohibitive
  • This led to a series of colonization efforts in a globe about 70 light years around Earth, but these ended as their costs proved prohibitive.
  • A digital projector can cost around $100,000, a sum that has proved prohibitive to many exhibitors.
  • An abortive project, begun in 1835, to design a light on a stone pier at the site was cancelled when the cost proved prohibitive.
  • Ten examples were built, but they only entered limited commercial service; their high cost and problems with the cooling of the after engines proved prohibitive.
  • Even as the New York economy recovered in 1996 and 1997, the cost of new construction proved prohibitive.
  • But once again, costs proved prohibitive as oil prices slumped in the 1980s.
  • Gaiman had originally wanted to reconstruct a console room from the original series, but the cost proved prohibitive.
  • At the time, the cost of developing the gas field proved prohibitive.
  • In some cases, this has led to hospitals using an unlicenced form rather than the licensed agent, as the price difference proved prohibitive.
  • In the beginning, she noted, the price of retirement land and labor proved prohibitive.
(52) repeatedly, continually
Kolokacji: 2
(53) overwhelming, irresistible
Kolokacji: 2
(54) wise, unwise
Kolokacji: 2
(57) simply, merely, simple
Kolokacji: 3
(58) premature, initially, timely
Kolokacji: 3
(59) valid, untenable
Kolokacji: 2
(64) empty, fragile, meaningless
Kolokacji: 3
(66) apt, agile
Kolokacji: 2
(67) impervious, receptive
Kolokacji: 2
(69) robust, hardy
Kolokacji: 2
(70) palatable, disconcerting
Kolokacji: 2

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