Example sentences of "[conj] shown to be " in BNC.

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1 If a borrower had rashly signed a credit agreement and then discovered he had committed himself to paying what he considered disproportionate interest , he could have his opinion confirmed , or shown to be unreasonable , by a court .
2 On Nov. 9 the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) was reported to have indicated that it would consider halting the shipment if it was found to be unsafe or shown to be vulnerable to accidents and piracy , as claimed by some IMO member states .
3 erm that 's the doubt and that doubt is going to be either borne out or shown to be wrong by the rest of John Major 's incumbents , so at the moment I 'll certainly give him the benefit of the doubt .
4 Macbeth , although shown to be very brave and soldier-like , is also very foolish .
5 A variety of phosphorylcholine treatments have been tested and shown to be non-cytotoxic .
6 Once the new analogy is recognized , it can be compared with the old and shown to be more adequate , in that it dissipates previously insoluble problems .
7 Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful .
8 After all , earth was not made in a day and there is always scope for a second project once the first has been completed and shown to be a success .
9 But they argue that until enough new units have been funded , provided , and shown to be working the traditional hospitals are better than nothing .
10 This restriction of the kernel function K1 is discussed by Volterra ( 1931 ) and shown to be a requirement of the theory of hereditary phenomena , when the phenomenon always follows the same course as it passes successively through the same conditions , whatever may be the relative position of these conditions in time .
11 That to the northeast has not been examined , but its southern counterpart was sectioned south of the junction and shown to be 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) wide with alternating bands of gravel , sand and cobbling .
12 The burst of social legislation prior to 1914 was possible only within a context in which the most obvious social evils of the day , such as the poverty caused by old age , sickness and unemployment , had been identified and shown to be amenable to State action .
13 Once the project has been carried out and shown to be successful , subsequent written or verbal reports can outline other uses of the microcomputer based in the school library , leading to the acquisition of a library based microcomputer or the reallocation of an existing microcomputer to the school library .
14 This kinase has been purified and shown to be a multicomponent complex consisting of an approximately 350 kDa catalytic subunit and a heterodimeric DNA-binding subunit ( 6 , 10 , 11 ) .
15 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 .
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