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

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1 And feeding back through that inversion is an equally scandalous interrogation of the dominant order being mimicked ; civil society is shown to be rooted in a like corruption .
2 Masculine sexuality is shown to be complex and unstably implicated within the whole social domain .
3 The Colonial Office Circular of 1909 to its employees on ‘ immoral relations with native women , is shown to be a crucial development which involved ‘ a massive and indeed revolutionary intrusion of public authority into the private lives of official classes overseas ’ .
4 However , receptive anal intercourse is shown to be the riskiest sexual behaviour .
5 Share ownership is shown to be most common in London and the South-east , both in general and for those holding privatisation shares alone .
6 The direct effect of job on absenteeism is shown to be zero .
7 The product of the flowrate and the dilution factor give a numerical value for the odour emission , which whilst not a direct measurement of odour nuisance is shown to be a guide : the higher the emission the more likely the odour is to give rise to complaints and therefore more likely to amount to a nuisance at law .
8 The use of in-depth qualitative methods is relatively untried in driver research , but here is shown to be most valuable .
9 If , in spite of treatment , the foetus is shown to be severely affected the woman may be offered the choice of terminating the pregnancy or undertaking a further course of treatment to help prevent more damage .
10 Far better to be tested today and have the chance to put right what is shown to be wrong than to be tested tomorrow and be found wanting .
11 A thorough understanding of the way official statistics were collected and of the workings of the administration is shown to be essential for the proper interpretation of these data .
12 That is shown to be wrong by yesterday 's announcement from British Telecom that the cost of calls is to be frozen , although phone rentals are rising .
13 The results of testing the model over a period from the late 1890s to 1970 are satisfactory for all the variables employed , and the government 's impact upon union growth is shown to be highly significant .
14 Further discussion is shown to be necessary in recognizing that ‘ child abuse is centrally concerned with debates about the way we bring up children and is hence centrally concerned with child care ’ .
15 It is already significant for that reason : the Council 's resolve to condemn mass destruction in modern war is shown to be all the more strong .
16 Transition through training is shown to be a process in which vulnerable young people are stratified into the slots allotted to them rather than being engaged in real decision-making about future choices .
17 For rule utilitarianism , in contrast , once a rule is shown to be felicific , it is established as something to be obeyed , unless perhaps in very special cases , and is not to be considered merely as one factor to be weighed against others .
18 It is proposed to explain the nine conflict situations with the aid of hypothetical examples within which the conflict is shown to be abused .
19 The ideal of an unrelated self is shown to be an ideal developed by people who have never been in the position of having primary responsibility for the care of children or the old .
20 RIGHT On excavation , the same feature is shown to be an impressive Iron Age grave ; the body had been buried with a chariot .
21 However , the extent of this new-found tolerance is shown to be limited by the hysteria generated by the disease AIDS against male homosexuals .
22 Ironically , in the same way that the denial of the risk of harm associated with a possible preventive measure undermines the basis for performing a randomised trial designed to investigate the efficacy of that measure , the exaggeration of the risk of harm tends to undermine public health measures designed to introduce the preventive measure if it is shown to be effective .
23 The difficulty with any kind of platonism that claims the ontological primacy of qualities — or any kind of universals — is that in presenting its case it implicitly relies on certain assumptions about existentially unique particulars , which no sooner are made explicit than the whole platonist case is shown to be built on sand .
24 The old idea that manufacture is macho , hardheaded , practical , realistic , while production of knowledge is effeminate , is shown to be disabling .
25 God 's way of salvation is shown to be the same throughout the ages : men respond in faith to his initiative in grace .
26 Any time after the presentation of a petition and before the making of a bankruptcy order , the court can , if it is shown to be necessary for the protection of the debtor 's property , appoint the official receiver to be interim receiver ( s 286(1) ) .
27 It is sufficient if he is shown to be intentionally using violence or if he is aware that his conduct may be violent .
28 The time-dependent form is shown to be Applying the Laplace transform to both sides gives so that the transformed bulk modulus There is a fuller discussion of these topics in ( MP ) and in references ( Ferry 1980 ) , McCrum , Read & Williams 1967 ) including the representation , due to Gross ( 1953 ) , of the relaxation functions as Laplace integrals .
29 Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable .
30 She is the only female character allowed into the fortress den and as the story develops she is shown to be both sensitive and sensible .
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