Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] shown to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 : |
| 35 | If it is possible to generalize from this at all , it is that presence of predator remains in a fossil assemblage gives no indication of method of origin of the assemblage , even if it can be shown to be accumulated by a predator . |
| 36 | In terms of the metric functions of the line element ( 6.20 ) , this rotation can be shown to be equivalent to the result that , if U , V , W and M are solutions of ( 6.22 ) , then another solution is given by ( 12.12 ) |
| 37 | All of the above transformations can be shown to be obtainable from a general rotation and rescaling of the coordinates in the plane . |
| 38 | It is of type D , and can be shown to be part of the Taub-NUT solution in the Taub region where there are two space-like Killing vectors . |
| 39 | Obviously , if vitamin A can be shown to be necessary for photoperiod detection by an extraocular receptor , it is likely that rhodopsins are at work . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Advantage should be taken of external courses where these can be shown to be relevant and cost effective . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Algebraically , this can be shown to be equivalent to , If the energy required to propagate the crack by producing the two new fracture surfaces were really confined to C , the free surface energy ( which is seldom much above I J/m 2 ) , then simple arithmetic will show that , at any realistic stress level , the critical crack length would be very short indeed , perhaps around a micron . |
| 45 | ‘ Content validity ’ ( C2 ) refers to the extent to which individual items can be shown to be measuring the same underlying skills or abilities . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Hinshaw makes a distinction between the ‘ cognitive ’ and ‘ evocative ’ contents of knowledge suggesting that the ‘ truth ’ , at the semantic and syntactic levels , can be considered in isolation from the social basis of knowledge in so far as it can be shown to be cognitive rather than evocative . |
| 48 | The criterion of distortion is that statements are made about the society which by social-scientific methods can be shown to be positively in error , whereas selectivity [ i.e. primary selectivity ] is involved where the statements are , at the proper level , ‘ true ’ , but do not constitute a balanced account of the available truth . |
| 49 | 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 ; |
| 50 | Yet they can be shown to be in some sense the implicit guardians of morality . |
| 51 | In each case these writers can be shown to be trying to place the other outside the sphere of mastery rather than in a relation of negation or of reduplication of the self . |
| 52 | But in either case , unlike the Hegelian essential section , where each event can be shown to be in an essential articulation with the whole in a continuous and homogeneous spatio-temporality , a cross-section at any particular moment will show a heterogeneous array of presences and absences . |
| 53 | New historicism is most concerned with the late Foucault , in particular with representations and mechanisms of power , the means through which cultural artefacts can be shown to be not passive reflectors of the history of their time but active producers of it . |
| 54 | Unless the principle that promises ought to be kept can be shown to be compatible with the appropriate respect for liberty , it offends liberalism by imposing a kind of moral paternalism . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Justification by inference is conditional justification only ; A's justification is conditional upon the justification of B and C. But if all inferential justification is conditional in this sense , then nothing can be shown to be actually , non-conditionally justified . |
| 57 | The — s of cows can be shown to be a semantic constituent by the normal test : |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | A major contribution of Weinreich , Labov and Herzog ( 1968 ) and the quantitative paradigm has been to demonstrate that heterogeneity in the speech community can be shown to be have patterns in it . |
| 60 | For our present purposes , there are two main senses in which the inner-city phonology can be said to be complicated : first , there is a much higher degree of ‘ low-level ’ allophonic variation in the inner-city than in outer areas , resulting in a wide range of variation and frequent overlap between phonemes ; yet , this variation can be shown to be rule-governed ; second , there is a high incidence of what I have called phono-lexical alternation ( as measured in variables of type 2b ) in the inner-city , which is much reduced in outer-city communities . |