Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] shown [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Conversely , circulating eosinophils have been shown to be negative , whereas they apparently may express L1 after extravasation into inflamed tissue .
8 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 .
9 Such elements are relatively poorly characterized , but different structural features such as acidic regions with amphipathic helices , glutamine-rich , proline-rich , and serine/threonine-rich domains have been shown to be involved in activation of transcription ( 36,64–66 ) .
10 The creatine kinase increase in all nine infants has been shown to be due to the muscle isoenzyme .
11 The festivals have been shown to be relatively successful by some indicators .
12 In other systems , far upstream and/or downstream sequences of tissue-specific genes or gene families have been shown to be involved in position-independent , copy number-dependent expression of associated genes in transgenic mice .
13 Five of the nine infants have been shown to be deleted from part of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene ( table II ) .
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 Indeed , the practitioners had been shown to be very highly motivated in this subject .
16 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 ] .
17 β-Thromboglobulin levels have been shown to be elevated in various types of vascular disease .
18 A major contributory cause of many recent accidents has been shown to be management failure ( see Appendix 3 ) .
19 This may be important as weight loss with accompanying reduction of blood pressure in obese non-diabetic hypertensives has been shown to be accompanied by reduced levels of plasma renin activity and aldosterone ( Tuck et al , 1981 ) .
20 Both light and heavy exercises have been shown to be of benefit in improving physical conditioning .
21 This is not surprising considering that most inflammatory mediators have been shown to be able to stimulate enteric nerves .
22 Often , both in America and in Britain , hostile takeovers have been shown to be reckless , mistaken and damaging .
23 Both these denials had been shown to be false .
24 Speculation and dire warnings that the political map of the province would change dramatically after the elections have been shown to be totally unfounded .
25 These tests have been shown to be reliable in detecting H pylori infection in patients with and without renal failure .
26 The use of syntactic information as an aid for text recognition systems has been shown to be both feasible and useful .
27 However , this long term toxicity of alkylating agents has been shown to be related to the intensity of therapy given and is very unlikely to occur with the low dose needed to treat our patients .
28 While this may be a reasonable stance for finance academics to adopt , even though the problems in analysing cash flows and given probabilities have been shown to be far from trivial , the practising manager has to recognize the limited scope of the ‘ investment problem ’ addressed by the current theory of finance .
29 Where systems have been shown to be weak , the risk would be high .
30 These drugs have been shown to be effective against all stages of lungworms with a consequent amelioration of clinical signs .
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