Example sentences of "[vb mod] be show to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |
| 2 | In R v London Borough of Harrow , ex pDeal [ 1989 ] FCR 729 the Court of Appeal confirmed that judicial review would lie if a decision to place a child 's name on the register could be shown to be utterly unreasonable . |
| 3 | But if some existing races could be shown to be closer to the apes than others , would this not prove their inferiority ? |
| 4 | The hypothesis that states pursue their national interest could be shown to be empirically superior to its rivals , thus grounding a Positive science of international relations . |
| 5 | The classic realists could be shown to be just as transgressive and problematic as the modernists . |
| 6 | If crime and deviance could be shown to be vitally necessary then this would be a serious blow indeed to the correctionalist stance — of both positivists and classicists . |
| 7 | He therefore sought to prove both that the structures of history were necessarily dialectical and that the course of actual history could be shown to be so . |
| 8 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 9 | With a little effort , the transfer function between its input and load resistance R may be shown to be Thus it performs as a third-order Butterworth filter when |
| 10 | This will be shown to be particularly the case in the next chapter on the relationship between catholicism and the Irish constitution . |
| 11 | The criterion of distortion is that statements are made about the society which by social-scientific methods can be shown to be positively in error , whereas selectivity [ i.e. primary selectivity ] is involved where the statements are , at the proper level , ‘ true ’ , but do not constitute a balanced account of the available truth . |
| 12 | It went to the extent of stating , ‘ … the TUC could not at any stage commit itself in advance to approve or acquiesce in the methods to be adopted to reach full employment simply because those methods can be shown to be well fitted and even necessary to the achievement of that objective … |
| 13 | Finally , as we have noted , pronouns are often used non-deictically ; but the actual variety of uses can be shown to be far greater than one would easily imagine ( Watson , 1975 ; Sacks , 1976 ) . |
| 14 | Since differences of less than 1% can be shown to be statistically significant when working with large sample numbers , Woodley chose to comment on differences and trends that appear to meaningful rather than merely statistically significant . |
| 15 | Justification by inference is conditional justification only ; A's justification is conditional upon the justification of B and C. But if all inferential justification is conditional in this sense , then nothing can be shown to be actually , non-conditionally justified . |
| 16 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
| 17 | The Act does little more than authorise the Secretary of State to issue rules for the regulation of prisons and the Prison Rules 1964 , though subsequently amended , can be shown to be very out of date . |