Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be shown to " 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Surface hydrophobicity has been shown to be correlated with adherence in E coli associated with gastroenteritis and pyelonephritis . |
| 4 | In those with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia during electrocardiographic monitoring treatment with low dose amiodarone has been shown to be effective . |
| 5 | The origin of this unusual monster has been shown to be in Early Dynastic Sumeria ( see p. 146 and fig. 14.29 above ) . |
| 6 | NC protein has been shown to be indispensable for RNA dimerization and encapsidation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |
| 11 | The velocity of propagation has been shown to be slower in patients with reflux oesophagitis . |
| 12 | The Government 's commitment to child benefit has been shown to be only lukewarm , and they regard the benefit as a politically necessary extravagance . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The seized clothing has been shown to a Maltese shopkeeper who identified items found in the suitcase containing the Pan Am bomb as bought from him . |
| 15 | Methotrexate works more quickly than mercaptopurine and azathioprine , and steroid sparing has been shown to be one of its advantages . |
| 16 | Mental handicap can also be reduced in cases where the likelihood of having a mentally handicapped child has been shown to be higher . |
| 17 | The presence of at least some specialist assistance has been shown to be essential for raising the standards of the whole team . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Elemental diet has been shown to be as beneficial as corticosteroid treatment in children with Crohn 's disease . |
| 21 | This may be important as lithocholic acid has been shown to be genotoxic in in vitro studies . |
| 22 | The incidence of colonic adenoma and carcinoma has been shown to be age related . |
| 23 | Supposition abounds not least because the custom has been shown to be much older than the legend to which its origin is attributed . |
| 24 | Indeed , the interaction of NC protein with RNA has been shown to be indispensable for the life cycle of the retrovirus , as NC protein promotes the dimerization of the genomic RNA and the hybridization of the tRNA primer to the PBS ( 8–13 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Finally , the report noted that the claim that only authoritarian governments could handle Third-World reform had been shown to be " patently false " . |
| 27 | A spokesman for Kent police said yesterday that clothing from the body had been shown to Lisa 's parents and close associates , but he stressed the identity could not yet be confirmed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Colorectal tumour cell lines may also express receptors specific for gastrin , and gastrin has been shown to be mitogenic to certain colorectal cancer cell lines in vitro and in transplantable tumours in vivo . |