Example sentences of "[verb] shown [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So what ? ’ , said the Federation , having shown by budgetary analysis that British pensioners also fared on just 7/ a week after rent and fuel costs had been paid . |
| 2 | He praised the effort and resolve shown by part-time students in completing professional courses in addition to the daily challenges of full-time employment . |
| 3 | The courage the British captain had shown on numerous dangerous patrols into enemy waters and the havoc he had wrought against shipping there was something I could never match in a hundred years . |
| 4 | Louis Agassiz had shown from geological evidence that glaciers ( not just icebergs as Smith thought ) had existed in the British Isles . |
| 5 | Phoneticians like Caroline Henton have shown in painstaking detail that the stereotype of women as ‘ shrill ’ and ‘ swoopy ’ is actually — on average — false . |
| 6 | Engineers may be highly innovative in this work even though no new ( natural ) science is involved as the Japanese and others have shown in recent times . |
| 7 | Journals or papers designed to be sold in a number of African countries can succeed commercially , as some have shown in recent years , but these are directed at a limited , élite readership . |
| 8 | Although excess zinc may interfere with the absorption of iron and vice versa , it is unlikely that the low µg levels of trace metals that we have shown in gastric juice affect the absorption of exogenous trace metals . |