Example sentences of "[pron] can be shown " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of classes of object made in England which can be shown to have regional and/or local distributions . |
| 2 | Colours are necessary and the difference between the monitors for IBM PCs is mainly the number of colours which can be shown on the screen . |
| 3 | Findings which are replicated throughout a number of countries , or which can be shown to vary under specified conditions , become much more powerful since ‘ an explanatory theory of industrial relations can not be based upon the narrow range of industrial relations processes observable in one , or even a few , countries ’ ( Walker , 1967 , p. 108 ) . |
| 4 | It may consist of a tape-slide sequence which can be shown to classes and groups or viewed singly by individuals , and conveying a particular unit of information or stimulus ; it may , on the other hand , be half a term 's work programme for a class , meeting twice weekly for an hour and three quarters each time It may appear as a number of elements in a schedule of work which also includes directed teaching , use of text book , and practical formal exercises , as well as enquiry work , the consultation of sources , and a problem-solving exercise involving the study of a filmstrip in relation to a work-sheet or a passage in a novel . |
| 5 | There are other aspects of what has become a multiculturalist or antiracist orthodoxy which can be shown to replicate in many ways the volkish new right sense of the relationship between race , nation and culture — kin blood and ethnic identity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In any event , the global figures above are less significant than variations which can be shown to relate to specific categories of children , kinds of learning and classroom contexts . |
| 8 | Since this was lithographed , by H. C. Richter , it is also much bigger , in a large folio size instead of quarto ; but with small birds which can be shown life-size on a page of ordinary dimensions , this merely adds splendour |
| 9 | You can see several of the topographic features discussed in the preceding section : a floor lower than the terrain beyond the rim ; the central peaks ; the wall slumps ; a floor flattened by infill ; an ( rather degraded ) ejecta blanket ; small surrounding craters , some of which can be shown to be secondaries . |
| 10 | Most woods have a multitude of banks , ditches and enclosures relating to their former management , which can be shown to have developed at different times . |
| 11 | At the same time , it reveals a succession of different grants , none of which can be shown to be associated with the original concession of Sapaudia . |
| 12 | The kind he likes he calls ‘ detail ’ , as opposed to ‘ long shots ’ — the equivalent , that is , of the long shots over-used by cameramen of the Iranian Revolution : ‘ it is through details that everything can be shown ’ — that truth can be shown . |
| 13 | By the simple laws of dilution , solutions beyond the 12C potency should have no activity whatsoever , and yet clinically they can be shown to have an effect and , what is more , higher potencies often show more powerful effects than lower potencies . |
| 14 | AMERICAN sports fans tend not to believe the evidence of their own eyes until they can be shown a corroborating statistic . |
| 15 | As we have seen , however , sign codes , although they can be shown to exist and function as language codes ( see chapter 10 ) , do not behave in exactly the same way as speech codes . |
| 16 | Yet they can be shown to be in some sense the implicit guardians of morality . |
| 17 | Such societies make the conflicts of history irreducible to Sartre 's logic unless , like the boxing match , they can be shown to take part in a larger totalizable category . |
| 18 | These advantages can not , however , be considered to be worth while unless they can be shown to lead to better glycaemic control or a reduction of long term complications of diabetes , or both . |
| 19 | They can be shown to range from sites entirely dependent upon the main road frontages , through those which developed a system of irregular internal streets and lanes , to the few with some form of organized street plan . |
| 20 | The proposed development is contrary to the stated policy of the local planning authority where new dwellings in the countryside are normally resisted unless they can be shown to be justified by agricultural need . |
| 21 | Hard-won working conditions and employment protection are now routinely jettisoned by many cowboy operators , secure in the knowledge that if workers complain they can be shown the door , outside which is a four-deep queue of would-be replacements willing to thole all manner of demands provided there is the prospect of regular work at whatever depressed rates . |
| 22 | They will only be challenged if ‘ it can be shown that the proposed referral is wholly unjustified on clinical grounds , or where an alternative referral would be equally efficacious , taking into account the patient 's wishes ’ . |
| 23 | Sometimes it can be shown that the tissue not only looks homogeneous , but actually is so , because , if the tissue is cut in half , each half will regulate to give rise to the same pattern as would otherwise have been produced by the whole . |
| 24 | The bout has been switched from May 2 , so that it can be shown on television . |
| 25 | It can be shown that individuals and groups welcome the opportunity to contribute to debate and to participate in policy making . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Courses of treatment vary from one to seven days and although it is always preferable to examine the male sexual partner of an infected woman , because of the difficulties of making the diagnosis in men it is sometimes justifiable to treat the male without confirming the diagnosis , particularly if it can be shown that reinfection has taken place . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is a little difficult to explain why the 1 January method superseded 25 March as the start of the historical year , although it can be shown that it was in ordinary use early in the eighteenth century , as witness such as ‘ A True and Perfect Inventory of the Goods and Chattells of John Green Deceased the eight day of January 1713/14 ’ . |