Example sentences of "[noun] have be shown to be " in BNC.

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1 Dictionary definitions constitute a valuable source of semantic knowledge , and the definitional overlap technique has been shown to be a suitable method for applying such knowledge .
2 SIR , — Pneumothorax has been shown to be associated with intracranial haemorrhage in the newborn .
3 ‘ but invariably , even when we have needed to correct or update details in our reports , the sad fact remains that the overall portrait of horror has been shown to be true and if anything , understated . ’
4 Surface hydrophobicity has been shown to be correlated with adherence in E coli associated with gastroenteritis and pyelonephritis .
5 Most significantly , the structure of many rifts examined by seismic methods has been shown to be asymmetric with most of the downthrow occurring along a major boundary listric fault on one side of the rift .
6 In those with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia during electrocardiographic monitoring treatment with low dose amiodarone has been shown to be effective .
7 The origin of this unusual monster has been shown to be in Early Dynastic Sumeria ( see p. 146 and fig. 14.29 above ) .
8 NC protein has been shown to be indispensable for RNA dimerization and encapsidation .
9 Furthermore , nutritional treatment with enteral feeds in which nitrogen is provided as a hydrolysate of whole protein has been shown to be inferior to drug treatment in two large studies involving adults , although a small study in children showed equal efficacy to corticosteroids .
10 To cap it all , the administration has been shown to be not just partisan , not just radical in some of its instincts , but alarmingly accident-prone .
11 Prediction has been shown to be difficult , if not dangerous , when one thinks of all those worthy , well-written , sincerely felt , and critically-supported books that remain unread ( see Manning , 1969 ; Avery , 1972 ) , and those obvious , apparently superficial and mundane pot-boilers that gain young readers ' affections .
12 Certainly almost all of the characters that Burdon lists have been shown to be of selective importance either in clover or in some related species , though sometimes under very specialized circumstances .
13 Furthermore , PGE type compounds have been shown to be effective inhibitors of FMLP activated human neutrophils , making it even more unlikely that indomethacin induced inhibition of cyclo-oxygenase underlies the ability of indomethacin to attenuate FMLP induced chemiluminescence from neutrophils .
14 Polynuclear aromatic compounds have been shown to be effective as carcinogens , especially when in particulate form , while statistical associations have been noted in men between atmospheric pollution and coal mining .
15 Whilst such systems are powerful tools for marketing analysis and direct marketing campaigns ( indeed , such profile codings have been shown to be highly predictive when incorporated into credit scorecards ) , the credit marketer should never lose sight of the fact that these are likely profiles and there will inevitably be a small proportion of targeted customers whose actual profiles display a disparity from the system profile .
16 The velocity of propagation has been shown to be slower in patients with reflux oesophagitis .
17 The Government 's commitment to child benefit has been shown to be only lukewarm , and they regard the benefit as a politically necessary extravagance .
18 Light adaptation characterized by a decrease in rod sensitivity in the presence of background illumination has been shown to be mediated by Ca 2+ ( refs 26 , 27 ) .
19 Methotrexate works more quickly than mercaptopurine and azathioprine , and steroid sparing has been shown to be one of its advantages .
20 Mental handicap can also be reduced in cases where the likelihood of having a mentally handicapped child has been shown to be higher .
21 The presence of at least some specialist assistance has been shown to be essential for raising the standards of the whole team .
22 Liposomes , which in clinical trials have been shown to be non-toxic and non-immunogenic , may be safer than viral vectors which have the inherent risks of immunogenicity , replication and transmission .
23 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 .
24 Conversely , circulating eosinophils have been shown to be negative , whereas they apparently may express L1 after extravasation into inflamed tissue .
25 Against this evidence certain points must be made ; no trial of antiarrhythmic agents in patients with increased ventricular ectopic counts has been shown to be beneficial ; in the case of the Cardiac Arrhythmia ( CAST ) trial it has proven detrimental .
26 A minimum complete three day stool collection with homogenisation has been shown to be necessary to minimise variation and most previous studies , with few exceptions , have not done this .
27 Elemental diet has been shown to be as beneficial as corticosteroid treatment in children with Crohn 's disease .
28 This may be important as lithocholic acid has been shown to be genotoxic in in vitro studies .
29 The incidence of colonic adenoma and carcinoma has been shown to be age related .
30 Supposition abounds not least because the custom has been shown to be much older than the legend to which its origin is attributed .
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