It may not have been cool, but the work proved fascinating.

This big work proved to be too much for them.

Maybe more late work would prove the point, though little of that has survived and almost nothing is known about his last decades.

However the work proved to be too ambitious, and the project was abandoned.

Recent work on drug development in the latter field have proved particularly effective.

If work didn't prove to be the route off welfare, neither did marriage.

Ultimately, she said, the work on the town houses will prove her good intentions.

Their own work, too, had proven much harder than might be supposed.

The work would prove timely when, two days later, she received the letter that changed everything.

The work proved controversial with other residents and the local press ran a campaign against the piece over the next two years.