Example sentences of "shown to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Reliance on a predictive procedure which is linked mechanically to lagged values of the actual rate of inflation has been shown to be wholly inadequate . |
| 32 | But if some existing races could be shown to be closer to the apes than others , would this not prove their inferiority ? |
| 33 | The liver is the one organ in the abdomen in which MRI has been shown to be slightly better than computed tomography in the detection of focal lesions . |
| 34 | The Government 's intention was that these funds would be a way of helping with one-off exceptional circumstances affecting only a small minority of students , but the reality is that once again they have been shown to be completely wrong . |
| 35 | Alison Cleland , a development worker with the Children 's Rights Development Unit , said that existing legislation had been shown to be completely ineffective in safeguarding young workers ' welfare . |
| 36 | In a study of 102 scimitar-horned oryx juvenile survival rates were shown to be inversely related to the degree of inbreeding . |
| 37 | However , head size , birth weight , and intelligence have been shown to be inversely and linearly associated with maternal phenylalanine concentrations , again without any obvious threshold in effect . |
| 38 | It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The remedies of the homoeopathic materia medica have not , as has happened to their orthodox counterparts , had to be abandoned , as one after another they have lost their efficacy or have been shown to be too toxic to be used safely . |
| 41 | Often the " essence " has been seen in terms which wider study of religions has shown to be too narrow or too idiosyncratic or in ways which undermine the significance of the external forms of religious traditions . |
| 42 | This classification is shown to be too restrictive to provide an explanatory analysis of all cases of reformulation in discourse . |
| 43 | For example , brief counselling by general practitioners has been shown to be as effective as benzodioazepine tranquillizers for patients with minor affective disorders of recent onset ( Catalan et al. 1984b ) . |
| 44 | The present government has been shown to be as ‘ green ’ as porridge and conservationists and bureaucrats alike fight shy of a battle royal . |
| 45 | Elemental diet has been shown to be as beneficial as corticosteroid treatment in children with Crohn 's disease . |
| 46 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 47 | Medication Imipramine ( a tricyclic antidepressant , Tofranil ) is the only drug that has been shown to be significantly more effective than a placebo in reducing wetting frequency . |
| 48 | We considered subjects positive for HIV as controls in the comparison of pneumonia because the incidence of pneumonia among drug users positive for HIV was shown to be significantly higher compared to drug users negative for HIV . |
| 49 | Of all the doctor related factors examined , including personality , knowledge , and consultation style , only a special interest in diabetes was shown to be significantly associated with better control . |
| 50 | The presence of a peak was also shown to be significantly beneficial on several occasions , particularly in the adenoidectomy only group ( maximum effect 7.6 ( SE 2.4 ) dB ) . |
| 51 | Where statistics on socio-economic factors were accessible and the effect of these could be controlled , age was shown to be somewhat less powerful as a determinant of health among adolescents during pregnancy and confinement . |
| 52 | The trick will be to distil these desirable attributes from the new arrangements and to discard the harmful elements ; once they have been shown to be so . |
| 53 | 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 ! |
| 54 | He therefore sought to prove both that the structures of history were necessarily dialectical and that the course of actual history could be shown to be so . |
| 55 | Once the post-revolutionary fervour had simmered down and the revolutionaries had become convinced of their victory over Keynesianism , questions started to be asked as to why , from 1936 onwards , so many of their august mentors , some of whom had won Nobel Prizes , had subscribed to a point of view which had been shown to be so palpably erroneous . |
| 56 | Also , two of masculinity 's basic characteristics , sexual prowess and violence , are shown to be inextricably related , as indicated for example by the conventional but still revealingly obsessive association of sword and phallus ( e.g. at ii . |
| 57 | But of the winners only 2 per cent are shown to be better off by £2 a week , whereas 39 per cent of losers will be asked to pay a local poll tax that is more than £2 above their then current rate contribution ( Poll Tax Facts , no. 9 , Local Government Information Unit , 1988 ) . |
| 58 | The result is that tasks such as redistribution , which in the fiscal federalism literature are seen as a prerogative of central government , may ( given the imperfections of the Tiebout mechanism and the informational requirements of administration ) be shown to be better pursued at a lower level of government when broader considerations are taken into account . |
| 59 | Arguments of principle which have consequences for the wellbeing and future happiness of the disputants are very easily shown to be really about profit and interest . |
| 60 | Clearly to have the combination of an off bore sight capability for a a missile such as A S R A A M , the er advance short range air to air missile , the combination of the agility of the weapon and the flat platform together has been shown to be really needed , you ca n't have one without the other and that somebody who has only agility in the aircraft or agility in the in the weapon , will lose against somebody who has it in both . |