Example sentences of "been shown [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The presence of at least some specialist assistance has been shown to be essential for raising the standards of the whole team .
2 Contrary to the official establishment line on fluoride , this substance has never been shown to be essential for body function , and its role in protecting teeth from dental caries is extremely doubtful .
3 Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients .
4 To this end , two companies , Hoechst , whose product Trental ( oxpentifylline ) had recently been shown to be useful in the treatment of chronic venous ulceration , and Perstorp Pharma whose new product , Iodosorb ointment ( cadexomer iodine ) , useful in the treatment of infected ulcers , had recently been promoted , were contacted .
5 The technique has been adapted to suit the format of text recognition data , and has been shown to be effective as a means of identifying correct words from alternative candidates .
6 These drugs have been shown to be effective against all stages of lungworms with a consequent amelioration of clinical signs .
7 Alternatively anaerobic digestion of the slurry by bacteria at a temperature of about 35°C has been shown to be effective in alleviating odour emission .
8 Recently , a non-peptide substance P antagonist ( CP 96345 ) has been shown to be effective in animal models of pain and inflammation .
9 Non-mydriatic fundal photography is useful for detecting retinopathy in patients with diabetes and has been shown to be effective in identifying previously unrecognised retinopathy when used in the community .
10 So , this has been shown to be effective in moderating the toxic events which occur in grand negative shock .
11 Recombinant interferon alfa has been shown to be effective in some patients with chronic hepatitis C. There are now 13 published randomised controlled trials of interferon alfa ( dose : 1–10 MU ) in chronic non-A , non-B hepatitis .
12 In this study nifedipine plus diuretic lowered blood pressure more effectively than propranolol plus diuretic , which has previously been shown to be effective in black hypertensive patients .
13 At the same time anti-diarrhoeal efficacy is maintained , since a dose of even 1 mg has been shown to be effective in a randomised double blind study of acute diarrhoea in adults .
14 The confounding factors were patients ' characteristics that had been shown to be predictive of increased perinatal risk .
15 Colorectal tumour cell lines may also express receptors specific for gastrin , and gastrin has been shown to be mitogenic to certain colorectal cancer cell lines in vitro and in transplantable tumours in vivo .
16 But this general expectation has already been shown to be misleading in his approach to the monastic life of the community at Canterbury .
17 In experimental animals , gangliosides have been shown to be protective in a number of conditions including anoxic ischaemia , models of Parkinson 's disease , central nervous system trauma , autoimmune neurological disease , and peripheral nerve injury .
18 Endoscopic treatment has been shown to be beneficial in bleeding patients .
19 The creatine kinase increase in all nine infants has been shown to be due to the muscle isoenzyme .
20 Some techniques , such as cost analysis and cost minimisation analysis , proceed on the basis that the alternatives under consideration have been shown to be equivalent in effectiveness .
21 In these experiments , two kinds of learning have been shown to be possible in a nervous system with fixed cell numbers and connections , by altering the effectiveness of synapses .
22 As the plaintiff had not been shown to be guilty of contributory negligence , he was entitled to recover damages , on the grounds of negligence .
23 This may be important as lithocholic acid has been shown to be genotoxic in in vitro studies .
24 Such elements are relatively poorly characterized , but different structural features such as acidic regions with amphipathic helices , glutamine-rich , proline-rich , and serine/threonine-rich domains have been shown to be involved in activation of transcription ( 36,64–66 ) .
25 In other systems , far upstream and/or downstream sequences of tissue-specific genes or gene families have been shown to be involved in position-independent , copy number-dependent expression of associated genes in transgenic mice .
26 Stored serum from this time has subsequently been shown to be negative for antibody to hepatitis c ( riba assay , chiron corporation ) .
27 Although the mechanism by which dowsing works is not understood , the method has been shown to be capable of accurately locating buried archaeological features .
28 Salmon have been shown to be capable of the necessary olfactory discrimination , but the most direct evidence that they use their sense of smell comes from experiments , of the kind first performed by W. J. Wisby and A. D. Hasler , in which the salmon 's olfactory sense was impaired .
29 Antibody L2 has been shown to be specific for the C-terminus of amidated gastrins , 109–21 for the C-terminus of Gly-extended gastrins , and , antibody L289 for the C-terminus of progastrin .
30 In this instance health reports specify the pathogens which have been shown to be absent from the animals .
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