Example sentences of "be shown [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pollution levels in the city centre have been shown to be dangerously high , and these can only be reduced by encouraging a switch to more environment-friendly modes of transport . |
| 32 | Now two things have happened — one is that better , safer pills have been introduced , but secondly a lot of the scares which there were of five or ten years ago , have been shown to be quite unjustified , so we now know that using the more modern of the oral contraceptives erm there 's really very little risk indeed . |
| 33 | And we are fascinated to know that this approach has been shown to be so effective in a remote part of the Far East where our cassettes are transported on the back of a motorcycle ! |
| 34 | In addition to these , blend dare has also been found with the bare infinitive in a number of other categorizable contexts , all of which can also be shown to be somehow non-assertive : ( 59 ) I only wish I dared write to him . |
| 35 | In R v London Borough of Harrow , ex pDeal [ 1989 ] FCR 729 the Court of Appeal confirmed that judicial review would lie if a decision to place a child 's name on the register could be shown to be utterly unreasonable . |
| 36 | New historicism is most concerned with the late Foucault , in particular with representations and mechanisms of power , the means through which cultural artefacts can be shown to be not passive reflectors of the history of their time but active producers of it . |
| 37 | The hypothesis that states pursue their national interest could be shown to be empirically superior to its rivals , thus grounding a Positive science of international relations . |
| 38 | If crime and deviance could be shown to be vitally necessary then this would be a serious blow indeed to the correctionalist stance — of both positivists and classicists . |
| 39 | Since differences of less than 1% can be shown to be statistically significant when working with large sample numbers , Woodley chose to comment on differences and trends that appear to meaningful rather than merely statistically significant . |
| 40 | If shareholders can not be shown to be morally entitled to the corporate property then they have no antecedent moral right to exercise or allocate the power that flows from it , and accordingly the property rights justification of corporate power must fail , and with it , the project of explaining companies as private shareholder domains . |
| 41 | This is in contrast to previous findings , in which cultures of dissociated anterior mesenchyme were shown to be more responsive to FGF than were cultures of posterior mesenchyme . |
| 42 | The claims of the army , that the Vietcong were too weak to launch a major attack , were shown to be quite unjustified . |
| 43 | She is the only female character allowed into the fortress den and as the story develops she is shown to be both sensitive and sensible . |
| 44 | Share ownership is shown to be most common in London and the South-east , both in general and for those holding privatisation shares alone . |
| 45 | The use of in-depth qualitative methods is relatively untried in driver research , but here is shown to be most valuable . |
| 46 | The results of testing the model over a period from the late 1890s to 1970 are satisfactory for all the variables employed , and the government 's impact upon union growth is shown to be highly significant . |
| 47 | This classification is shown to be too restrictive to provide an explanatory analysis of all cases of reformulation in discourse . |
| 48 | Of more political significance was the fact that opposition to Model B from local government , irrespective of party , was shown to be very strong . |
| 49 | Gastric emptying was shown to be very rapid or biphasic with a rapid early component in 85 ( 79% ) patients , normal in 14 ( 13% ) , and abnormally slow in eight ( 7% ) patients . |
| 50 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 51 | They felt that with the Emperor 's death , their Christian God had deserted them , or had proven incomprehensibly capricious ; or more positively they felt that Allah suddenly was shown to be more powerful and |