Example sentences of "[be] shown to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that technically it is possible to dispense with " truth-talk " altogether , and if so , the alleged puzzles surrounding the concept of truth are shown to be more artificial than real . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Speech has previously been shown to be particularly distracting , but research from the project has shown that the effect is not confined to speech , non-speech sounds show the effect also . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Subsequently , the Galactic Centre has been shown to be astonishingly bright at many wavelengths , although it can not be seen optically because it is obscured by intervening dust . |
| 7 | The use of syntactic information as an aid for text recognition systems has been shown to be both feasible and useful . |
| 8 | Again he is taking over precisely the ‘ modern ’ definitions and oppositions , between the normal and pathological , the natural and unnatural , etc. , which have been shown to be both confused and ideological in the narrow sense . |
| 9 | The festivals have been shown to be relatively successful by some indicators . |
| 10 | However , n-gram techniques have been shown to be less effective for the present project than word-lookup methods , as they fail to exploit letter-level constraints to the same extent [ Wells , 1989 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But in Europe , other approaches to traffic control have been shown to be highly successful . |
| 13 | There is a rapidly growing body of literature supporting the efficacy of MRI for evaluating patients with bone marrow malignancy , and the technique has already been shown to be highly sensitive for detecting bone marrow metastases even in the absence of abnormal pain radiographs , conventional computed tomograms and radionuclide studies . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Elemental diet has been shown to be as beneficial as corticosteroid treatment in children with Crohn 's disease . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In humans , gangliosides have been shown to be potentially effective in various central and peripheral nervous system disorders . |
| 18 | It has been shown to be virtually impossible to give reliability figures for software when the reliability requirements are less than 1 error in 10 4 . |
| 19 | However , the sophisticated methodology of land-use planning , as well as the policy instruments of the programme , have recently been shown to be very fragile and unable to prevent large areas of land previously left uncultivated ( because of susceptibility to erosion ) , being once more put under the plough . |
| 20 | CQD a product imported from Germany and available from specialist aquatic retailers , has been shown to be very effective in treating certain , but not all , cases of Hexamita infection . |
| 21 | The Government 's commitment to child benefit has been shown to be only lukewarm , and they regard the benefit as a politically necessary extravagance . |
| 22 | In the 1970s a series of controlled trials compared the drug with other neuroleptics , and whereas no other drug has ever been shown to be more effective than chlorpromazine ( Largactil ) , clozapine was found to be so in six out of thirteen studies . |
| 23 | Some of these agents have been shown to be more effective than aspirin and/or heparin for the prevention of arterial thrombosis , for the acceleration of arterial recanalisation , and for the prevention of early and delayed reocclusion after reflow . |
| 24 | of Distillers MG explains how it has been shown to be more cost-effective compared to the use of dry ice slices . |
| 25 | MRI has been shown to be more sensitive than computed tomography in demonstrating intracranial metastases , particularly when Gd-DTPA is used . |
| 26 | Gamma scintigraphy has been shown to be more sensitive than either radiography or the standard acid reflux test in the detection of gastro-oesophageal reflux , with a sensitivity of 85.5% , compared with 69.5% with the standard acid reflux test and 27.5% with radiography . |
| 27 | The theoretical tools that we developed in the preceding Lecture have been shown to be extremely versatile ; they enabled us to analyse easily the incidence of taxation in a variety of economies exhibiting different kinds of imperfections . |
| 28 | He said he was not satisfied that the fire had been started deliberately , let alone who might have started it and that the scientific evidence was ‘ underlined by a number of assumptions which have been shown to be totally false ’ . |
| 29 | Speculation and dire warnings that the political map of the province would change dramatically after the elections have been shown to be totally unfounded . |
| 30 | Pollution levels in the city centre have been shown to be dangerously high , and these can only be reduced by encouraging a switch to more environment-friendly modes of transport . |