A place in this influential network proved crucial to Cromwell's military and political career.

This place, however, would prove a harder nut to crack.

Yet the place is proving to be a fertile incubator for visions of a better life.

Neither mother nor daughter dreamed that the place would prove a deathtrap.

No place has proved the point better than the Middle East, over and over, for most of this century.

"Could you buy a place without proving your identity?"

But the place proved too strong and too well defended.

I was disappointed when that place proved far from neutral.

Its new place in police sleuthing is proving no different.

The place proved to be the sort set up to change people's minds.