Example sentences of "[was/were] shown to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenya 's tranquillity could vanish if it were shown to be involved : the killing prompted the first of last year 's riots . |
| 2 | The impressive free-standing sculptures on the podium of the building were shown to be made of two types of Pentelic marble . |
| 3 | Were such a proof to be successfully produced , moreover — in other words if Anselm were shown to be right — then from our point of view such a success would undermine faith rather than establish it . |
| 4 | Very soon after Prontosil and sulphanilamide became available they were shown to be active against malaria . |
| 5 | Knowledge that plasmodia were vulnerable to sulphonamides was useful , particularly when they were shown to be protected , like bacteria , by p -aminobenzoic acid . |
| 6 | If fluid from the prostate and a specimen of the ejaculate are also examined , however , the diagnosis rate increases markedly , and over 70 per cent of male contacts were shown to be harbouring the organism in one series where these exhaustive tests were carried out . |
| 7 | In a study of 102 scimitar-horned oryx juvenile survival rates were shown to be inversely related to the degree of inbreeding . |
| 8 | Once and for all , these were shown to be systems comparable with our Galaxy and right outside it . |
| 9 | The police were said to have had no grounds for intervention unless the scene were shown to be the record of a real murder , so the posters dared the police to prove it real and the public to prove it not . |
| 10 | This is in contrast to previous findings , in which cultures of dissociated anterior mesenchyme were shown to be more responsive to FGF than were cultures of posterior mesenchyme . |
| 11 | Delinquent subculture theory locates the impetus more specifically in the social setting of lower-class adolescent males ( who were shown to be the most crime-prone by official statistics ) : they are disadvantaged in their quest for status and achievement ( defined by conventional agencies such as the school ) and consequently construct their own , alternative criteria . |
| 12 | They were hailed in the media as breakthroughs — and then they were shown to be wrong either by their own authors or by others . |
| 13 | Furthermore the whole numbers themselves were shown to be definable entirely in terms of Cantor 's new notion of set ( Section 0.1 ) . |
| 14 | The claims of the army , that the Vietcong were too weak to launch a major attack , were shown to be quite unjustified . |
| 15 | These villages lie way beyond the reach of limited government services , which were shown to be in crisis last year when the island group was added to the United Nations ' list of Least Developed Countries ( LDCs ) . |
| 16 | In Chapter 6 , the determinants of the basis were shown to be S t r and D ( l + r ) , rather than expectations of the spot price at delivery . |
| 17 | The N-terminal sequence 62–171 of RAP74 and N-terminal sequence 1–110 of RAP30 were shown to be minimum domains essential for interacting with each other to form a heteromer , although both N- and C-terminal flanking sequences of RAP74 and a small portion of C-terminal sequence of RAP30 stimulated the interaction ( Figs. 3 and 4 ) . |
| 18 | The synthesis of modifications in the anticodon stem and loop were shown to be the most sensitive ones . |
| 19 | In general , the NCp7 mutants which were shown to be active in promoting NCp7:RNA interactions ( 6 ) ( dimerization and annealing of the primer tRNA to the PBS ) interacted effectively with HIV-1 DNA fragments , indicating that the same residues are involved . |
| 20 | In the centuries that followed such shadings were shown to be transitory , and from these and other observations it became clear that Venus is completely and continuously covered in clouds . |
| 21 | In a Mann-Whitney-White analysis , these differences were shown to be highly statistically significant with 0.001 |
| 22 | Ninety three per cent of gall bladders were shown to be functioning and nine ( 9.8% ) contained stones , although five of these are believed to have developed from residual fragments . |
| 23 | Our study lends credence to the recent report of a family with many affected family members with only two to 40 colonic polyps , who were shown to be linked to the APC locus and are therefore likely to be carrying a mutation of this gene . |
| 24 | That the disease ranges widely in severity has led to suggestions of a genotype-phenotype correlation in CF. The most common mutations in Israeli patients with CF — W1282X and F508 — were shown to be associated with a severe disease . |
| 25 | Both imports and exports were shown to be growing at a similar rate . |
| 26 | Both imports and exports were shown to be growing at a similar rate . |
| 27 | FEARS were expressed yesterday that safety plans for North Sea platforms may put too much emphasis on equipment and hardware , rather than management and human factors , which were shown to be a main contributory cause of the Piper Alpha disaster . |
| 28 | Previously it was shown that the SM1 and SM2 MHC isoforms were produced by alternative splicing of a single gene ( 6 ) but both isoforms were shown to be co-expressed in all smooth muscle cell types ( 4,5,6 ) . |
| 29 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 30 | In relative terms , Britain was shown to be a middle-ranking power with her ability to take independent military action strictly limited . |