Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Some people were outstanding and became the deified men and women of the great religions , and their lives can be shown to be relevant to the conception of the Created God . |
| 62 | Advantage should be taken of external courses where these can be shown to be relevant and cost effective . |
| 63 | The fact that certain strategies which can be shown to be useful in translation have not been made use of so far suggests that translators are simply not aware of them , rather than that they are familiar with them but consciously or subconsciously choose not to use them . |
| 64 | Mrs Thatcher , a recent convert to environmental conservation , clearly held the opinion that environmental problems are not only soluble but that solving them can be shown to be cost-effective : |
| 65 | Increase in enamel thickness , but the enamel is even thicker than in afropithecins , as measured for the Pasalar sample , with relative enamel thickness of 19.71 ( ref. 47 ) , although it has yet to be measured for any of the African Kenyapithecus ; this character may be diagnostic of node 1A if it can be shown to be ancestral for both pongines and hominines ; |
| 66 | Some roads have been lost , whilst others have been created or moved , and features previously thought stable , like village greens , can be shown to be recent additions to some plans . |
| 67 | It seems that public concern is mostly raised when the pollutant is easily observed and can be shown to be due to some organisation flouting the law . |
| 68 | In contrast , if the supplier undertakes to use reasonable care to manufacture the machine in accordance with the agreed specification , it could be argued that the supplier is only liable for any departure from the specification if it can be shown to be due to negligence . |
| 69 | Furthermore , if the components of two tensors can be shown to be equal in a particular coordinate system , i.e. then because the corresponding components of and transform identically the equality holds for all coordinate frames including , of course , accelerating frames . |
| 70 | All molecular vibrations therefore have some zero-point energy , and this can be shown to be equal to one half of a quantum , so that the total vibrational energy of a molecule with only one normal vibration is where ν is the vibrational quantum number , a positive integer or zero . |
| 71 | If it can be shown to be successful at bureau level then there are certainly grounds for extending it throughout the democratic structure of the CAB . |
| 72 | The activities of a fan become intelligible if we can interpret them as being instrumental in establishing him in a particular role , or if such activities can be shown to be acceptable demonstrations of character and worth among his peers . |
| 73 | I have suggested that it can be shown to be fair or just to do so ; but this may not make it right if some other principle of greater weight is involved . |
| 74 | A large number of facts relevant to a theory must be ascertained by observation under a wide variety of circumstances , and the extent to which the theory can be shown to be true or probably true in the light of those facts by some kind of inductive inference must be established . |
| 75 | According to the latter , only those theories that can be shown to be true or probably true are to be admitted into science . |
| 76 | As the solar luminosity rose some of this CO 2 would have been liberated , but it can be shown to be unlikely that sufficient CO 2 would be liberated to yield present conditions . |
| 77 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 78 | According to falsificationism , some theories can be shown to be false by an appeal to the results of observation and experiment . |
| 79 | The assumption that because the accounts can be shown to be wrong , with the benefit of hindsight , every creditor can blame the auditors , is decisively rejected . |
| 80 | All of the above transformations can be shown to be obtainable from a general rotation and rescaling of the coordinates in the plane . |
| 81 | Where the subtests can be shown to be reliable and valid , such subtests scores may provide a useful profile of the child 's ability in a variety of areas . |
| 82 | Examples would be where the witness can be shown to be unreliable , biased or prejudiced . |
| 83 | Thus , J's first contribution here can be judged to be relevant in terms of the existing topic framework and also to add some information to the topic framework . |
| 84 | What is being said , in effect , it might be argued , is that there exist certain propositions which can be known to be true , and if so , existential propositions will not have been " eliminated " ; only the values of the variables of quantification will have been changed , with propositions taking the place of ontological objects . |
| 85 | The activity of the solvent can be considered to be equal to the mole fraction of the solvent x 1 . |
| 86 | Some of these causes fall into an ‘ organic ’ category , such as delayed maturation , heredity , or age of the child , while others can be considered to be emotional in origin , for example parents ' management method , stress and disturbance in the family . |
| 87 | Panov then took the initial solution to be the totally general solution of Szekeres ( 1972 ) , which can be considered to be equivalent to the general solution given here by ( 10.16 ) . |
| 88 | On the other hand , none of these items can be considered to be collective consumption , as are roads and street lighting , for example . |
| 89 | Having suggested that the 1960s were characterised by a series of discrete panics around moral issues , there is neither an account — other than an essentially economistic one — of the aetiology of such panics , nor an explanation of the way(s) in which they can be considered to be discrete . |
| 90 | In this respect , although usually referred to as empirical , it can be considered to be scientific . |