Example sentences of "shown to [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The variance of validity coefficients found in earlier studies was shown to be no greater than would be expected by chance . |
| 2 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 3 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 4 | A dogma that once looked profound had been shown to be no more than a simplistic diagram ; and social reality is too complex , in the end , to be embraced by any single theory of history or of class . |
| 5 | In addition to its biological activities in stimulating platelets and neutrophils , and enhancing vascular permeability , exogenous platelet activating factor has also been shown to be a potent ulcerogen , inducing extensive gastric mucosal damage and hamorrhage associated with septic shock . |
| 6 | This kinase has been purified and shown to be a multicomponent complex consisting of an approximately 350 kDa catalytic subunit and a heterodimeric DNA-binding subunit ( 6 , 10 , 11 ) . |
| 7 | A second and more serious line of criticism is that the empress 's claims to real enlightenment and concern for the welfare of her subjects are shown to be a hollow pretence by the intensification and geographical extension of serfdom in Russia during her reign . |
| 8 | In relative terms , Britain was shown to be a middle-ranking power with her ability to take independent military action strictly limited . |
| 9 | There is a famous sequence of " Going over the top " in the First World War which has been shown to be a staged sequence . |
| 10 | The Colonial Office Circular of 1909 to its employees on ‘ immoral relations with native women , is shown to be a crucial development which involved ‘ a massive and indeed revolutionary intrusion of public authority into the private lives of official classes overseas ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Later opium-like activity was found in a group of larger peptides , named endorphins , and of which enkephalin was shown to be a key fragment . |
| 13 | Hotel leisure facilities have been shown to be a worthwhile investment in that they can : |
| 14 | Claims based on procedural unfairness will therefore succeed if the unfairness can be shown to be a serious breach of contract . |
| 15 | The mythopoeic power of music has already been shown to be a decisive force in Greek literary history . |
| 16 | If women are refused credit because of some credit-worthiness factor ( say , not having a full-time job ) which applies more often to them than to men , that is lawful only if that credit-worthiness factor can be shown to be a justifiable reason for withholding credit regardless of the sex of the applicant . |
| 17 | Formation of clusters with unprimed T cells has thus been shown to be a functional feature of dendritic cells ; this may explain the striking appearance of S-100 protein + cells in Peyer 's patches , which are considered important sites for induction of primary immune responses . |
| 18 | This claim has been shown to be a considerable misstatement . |
| 19 | What was clearly stated was that the police have now powers as such to ban an event , unless it can be shown to be a public nuisance , and that they have no desire to fall out with all the local charities . |
| 20 | Sir Roy was a popular choice ; he was managing director of Sainsbury 's , the retail grocery chain , and was shown to be a pragmatic and sensible man accustomed to issues relating to the provision of complex services . |
| 21 | The 1983 Conservative Party manifesto argued ( p. 37 ) that the six metropolitan county councils and the GLC had ‘ been shown to be a wasteful and unnecessary tier of government ’ . |
| 22 | FEARS were expressed yesterday that safety plans for North Sea platforms may put too much emphasis on equipment and hardware , rather than management and human factors , which were shown to be a main contributory cause of the Piper Alpha disaster . |
| 23 | The — s of cows can be shown to be a semantic constituent by the normal test : |
| 24 | It would seem reasonable , in general , that if a sequence of elements AB can be shown to be a semantic constituent , and one of the parts of the sequence satisfies the recurrent contrast criterion , then the status of semantic constituent should be accorded to the remaining part of the sequence , even if it does not satisfy the recurrent contrast criterion . |
| 25 | Garlic extract has also been shown to be a valuable first line of defence against oral thrush . |
| 26 | We describe a patient with Sjögren 's syndrome and an uncommon gastric mucosal lesion shown to be a phlegmonous gastritis . |
| 27 | The centurion is also shown to be a compassionate man , for he cares about the health of one of his servants . |
| 28 | RAP30 has been reported to contain a sequence homologous to region 1b and 2 of σ factors of bacteria , which has been shown to be a binding site for the core component of E.coli RNA polymerase and possibly for mammalian RNA polymerase II ( 19,40 ) . |
| 29 | The drug cyclosporin was then shown to be a particular effective immunosuppressive agent as a result of extensive experiments on mice , rats , dogs and pigs . |
| 30 | Cannabis Teenagers often insist that cannabis is harmless , but it has been shown to be a high risk for certain users . |