Example sentences of "was shown that the " in BNC.

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1 In McShane ( 1977 ) a woman was convicted of an attempt to counsel her mother 's suicide by repeatedly encouraging her to take an overdose , and it was shown that the mother 's death would greatly alleviate the defendant 's financial problems .
2 It was shown that the effects of irradiation are greatest on dividing cells .
3 It was shown that the organism could cause conjunctivitis in baboons and , after inoculation in the urethra , a urethritis as well .
4 In the theory which accompanied this series it was shown that the function of regulated systems was to convert a ‘ rough ’ d.c. input voltage into a stable d.c. output voltage which would be maintained over a wide range of load current requirements as well as input voltage variations .
5 In agreement with Lapworth , it was shown that the uppermost rocks had been pushed many miles over the lower ones along a low-angled thrust fault .
6 Some of the die-linked examples have similar metal compositions , while others do not , and it was shown that the loop occasionally differs from the bracteate itself .
7 Although electrical excitability in the nervous system had been demonstrated before the beginning of the nineteenth century , it was not until the late nineteenth century that it was shown that the brain was spontaneously electrically active Jeannerod 1985 ) , and it was only in the 1930s , after the invention of the valve amplifier , that it was possible to make meaningful records of this activity .
8 In a comparison between blocking and non-blocking strains of mice it was shown that the potential of embryos to arrest at the 2-cell stage is determined solely by the genotype of the egg and occurs irrespective of the paternal or embryonic contribution ( 18 ) .
9 It was shown that the cost of not exercising quality control was far in excess of the cost of operating such a system .
10 In the 1989 Law Society survey , it was shown that the public associate solicitors most closely with conveyancing and property matters ( 68 per cent. ) , divorces and legal separations ( 35 per cent. ) , wills and trusts ( 38 per cent. ) , and law and order and criminal convictions ( 30 per cent . ) .
11 Scientific evidence that two of them had handled explosives had been discredited after it was shown that the constituents of soap could give the same positive results in the main test used to detect traces of explosive in 1974 .
12 In previous studies it was shown that the serum concentration increases in conditions where there is bile acid loss — for example , after ileal resection and cholestyramine treatment , and decreases where there is decreased bile acid synthesis — for example , in cirrhosis of the liver .
13 In Henry Kendall & Sons v Wm Lillico & Sons [ 1969 ] 2 AC 31 a course of dealing was established where it was shown that the parties had done business together three or four times per month for three years on the basis that contracts were made orally and the sellers then sent the buyers a 'sold note " containing their terms of trading .
14 Previously it was shown that the SM1 and SM2 MHC isoforms were produced by alternative splicing of a single gene ( 6 ) but both isoforms were shown to be co-expressed in all smooth muscle cell types ( 4,5,6 ) .
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