Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [be] shown [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | If nothing else , such a pattern shows that the territory of a particular settlement was farmed to the limits when the boundary was defined , and again , if that boundary can be shown to be of a particular date , then something of early land use can be stated . |
| 32 | As Stocking has shown , an innovation may be shown to be effective but not adopted widely , whereas another innovation may not have been demonstrated to be effective yet can become widely accepted in practice . |
| 33 | First , the benefit attributable to the patent must be shown to be current at the time of the employee 's application ; the prospect of future benefits such as royalty payments from foreign sub-licensees is only relevant to the quantum of compensation awarded should outstanding benefit be proved . |
| 34 | On appeal , this assumption could be shown to be false and the village ends up with a significant new development site ; it is this type of appeal decision which leaves the layman surprised and frustrated at the way in which the system operates . |
| 35 | The classic realists could be shown to be just as transgressive and problematic as the modernists . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | But if some existing races could be shown to be closer to the apes than others , would this not prove their inferiority ? |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | By searching a data file containing all the piece-part " boxes " for geometric domains , the simple relationship between parts can be established ; the boxes can be shown to be remote , adjacent , interfering and inserted . |
| 42 | Obviously , if vitamin A can be shown to be necessary for photoperiod detection by an extraocular receptor , it is likely that rhodopsins are at work . |
| 43 | All of the above transformations can be shown to be obtainable from a general rotation and rescaling of the coordinates in the plane . |
| 44 | Where the subtests can be shown to be reliable and valid , such subtests scores may provide a useful profile of the child 's ability in a variety of areas . |
| 45 | The activities of a fan become intelligible if we can interpret them as being instrumental in establishing him in a particular role , or if such activities can be shown to be acceptable demonstrations of character and worth among his peers . |
| 46 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
| 47 | The assumption that because the accounts can be shown to be wrong , with the benefit of hindsight , every creditor can blame the auditors , is decisively rejected . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 52 | The — s of cows can be shown to be a semantic constituent by the normal test : |
| 53 | In terms of the metric functions of the line element ( 6.20 ) , this rotation can be shown to be equivalent to the result that , if U , V , W and M are solutions of ( 6.22 ) , then another solution is given by ( 12.12 ) |