Example sentences of "shown to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Were such a proof to be successfully produced , moreover — in other words if Anselm were shown to be right — then from our point of view such a success would undermine faith rather than establish it . |
| 32 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 33 | Wealth , beauty , and wit , are all shown to be insufficient means of securing affection and happiness . |
| 34 | Discrimination in education , as in other spheres covered by the Act such as employment ( see Chapter 9 ) is also permissible if it can be shown to be ‘ justifiable ’ . |
| 35 | For example , if aggressiveness can be undoubtedly shown to be an inherited trait rather than a learned response — as it is in those men with the extra male chromosome — we would be in a position to reject all conceptions which would produce an excessively aggressive individual . |
| 36 | Mental handicap can also be reduced in cases where the likelihood of having a mentally handicapped child has been shown to be higher . |
| 37 | Thirdly , the only course of action if some form of handicap is detected , is to have an abortion , as the handicap has already been shown to be present in the foetus . |
| 38 | So the results of this trial will be of enormous benefit to mothers as in future they will be offered a treatment which has been shown to be effective . |
| 39 | Fortunately for Napoleon III , Alexander II was so involved for the next six years with the internal reconstruction of his Empire , which the Crimean War had shown to be lamentably weak , that he had no time for a ‘ forward ’ policy in Europe which might thwart French designs . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The classic realists could be shown to be just as transgressive and problematic as the modernists . |
| 42 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 43 | An Italian , Bartolomeo Gosio , in 1896 , described the extraction of a crystalline substance from culture filtrates of a Penicillium : the substance was later shown to be a compound called mycophenolic acid , with interesting biological properties but no valuable antibacterial ones . |
| 44 | Very soon after Prontosil and sulphanilamide became available they were shown to be active against malaria . |
| 45 | Knowledge that plasmodia were vulnerable to sulphonamides was useful , particularly when they were shown to be protected , like bacteria , by p -aminobenzoic acid . |
| 46 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | If fluid from the prostate and a specimen of the ejaculate are also examined , however , the diagnosis rate increases markedly , and over 70 per cent of male contacts were shown to be harbouring the organism in one series where these exhaustive tests were carried out . |
| 49 | It could well and easily be replaced by a doctrine which has it that the surgeon 's act carries liability only if good faith and due care and skill can be shown to be lacking . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Since the question is — or is made to be — one of his clinical judgment , his view will later be respected unless shown to be wholly unreasonable . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | They felt that with the Emperor 's death , their Christian God had deserted them , or had proven incomprehensibly capricious ; or more positively they felt that Allah suddenly was shown to be more powerful and |
| 54 | That agriculture has to be shown to be necessary for the viability of Article 3(5) areas is stated in the House of Commons ' Agriculture Committee 's 1982 Report which also states that such areas must have a low or declining population , the exact opposite of the view given by MAFF ) . |
| 55 | In a study of 102 scimitar-horned oryx juvenile survival rates were shown to be inversely related to the degree of inbreeding . |
| 56 | which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the person to whom it is applied . |
| 57 | which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the colour , race , nationality or ethnic origins of the person to whom it is applied . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | The presence of at least some specialist assistance has been shown to be essential for raising the standards of the whole team . |
| 60 | 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 . |