Example sentences of "it [verb] be shown " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the cochlea , for example , it has been shown that there are endings that respond preferentially to sounds of high rather than low pitch . |
| 2 | ( 5 ) Very recently it has been shown that transplants of the SCN can be used to pass rhythmicity from one animal to another . |
| 3 | It has been shown in some animal species that there are nerves running from the eyes to the SCN . |
| 4 | It has been shown that , in some animals , one of these is that lithium slows the free-running period of the body clock . |
| 5 | Following a series of projects in which it has been shown that mills and large warehouses may satisfactorily be converted into dwellings , some interest has been shown in the possibility of treating redundant factories similarly . |
| 6 | It was one of the truly marvellous innings , one that no one who saw it could ever forget ; since it has been shown on television virtually every time rain has stopped play in any match since , it would be almost impossible to have forgotten it anyway . |
| 7 | However , with recent advances in information technology it has been shown that automation of all or some of these processes will provide an effective way forward . |
| 8 | It has been shown time and time again that , if we follow the path of kindness and understanding begun by Xenophon , there is a more successful and gratifying way of training horses — as illustrated so long ago by Alexander the Great with his charger Bucephalus . |
| 9 | However , it has been shown that this is not the case . |
| 10 | It has been shown that during the period there is flow of menstrual products backwards up the fallopian tubes and even into the abdominal cavity . |
| 11 | It has been shown that inactivated herpes virus is more capable of inducing cancerous change in certain cells than the normal virus , and the possible risks attached to such vaccines vastly outweigh any dubious advantages . |
| 12 | This matter of cellulose breakdown is of vital importance to the whole question of the nutrition of the living cells , for it has been shown by experiment that raw cellulose can be injurious to plants as it is indigestible to animals , and in both the soil and the digestive tract of herbivora , cellulose decomposition is largely performed by fungi . |
| 13 | It has been shown , for example , that levels of violence during industrial disputes fell in the first three-quarters of this century , but that this trend has been reversed more recently ( Geary , 1985 ) . |
| 14 | In this way it has been shown , for example , that the muscles of the newt always come from a particular region of the early embryo , and the eye from quite a different region , and the gut from another . |
| 15 | It has been shown that the best time of year for such exams would be in March or April when temperatures are lower . |
| 16 | It has been shown that many additives are responsible for behavioural problems among young people , such as irritability , clumsiness , excitability and aggressiveness . |
| 17 | It has been shown in Chapter 4 that this relationship is not always a comfortable one . |
| 18 | It has been shown that only physiological concentrations of insulin c. 30–40 μ U/ml are required for such an effect ( De Fronzo , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Using these techniques it has been shown that thromboxane A 2 is a potent contractor of isolated vessel segments from several species including coronary arteries from pig and cattle , human umbilical artery and rabbit aorta ( Moncada & Vane , 1979 ) . |
| 20 | In addition to the findings that vascular prostacyclin production may be decreased in diabetes , it has been shown that platelets obtained from diabetic subjects show diminished sensitivity to the antiaggregatory effects of prostacyclin in vitro . |
| 21 | However , if the nurse takes the time to give information to the patient , it has been shown in various studies to be beneficial ( Hayward , 1975 ; Wilson-Barnett , 1978 ; Boore , 1979 ; Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 22 | Managing is unusual in the extent in which it has been shown to rely on informal information . |
| 23 | It has been shown that one of the basic criticisms of ‘ boy labour ’ was the ‘ decay ’ or ‘ decline ’ of ‘ old-style ’ apprenticeship under the impact of excessive specialization of process which resulted in a ‘ dilution ’ of apprenticeship proper . |
| 24 | Newspaper reports , where a reporter was present at the scene , might be thought to be valuable , but unfortunately it has been shown only too often how little reliance can be placed on them . |
| 25 | It has been shown that decomposition of small mammal carcases proceeds rapidly , and the bones are then subject to environmental stresses ( Dodson , 1973 ; Korth , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | The bone evidently continued to be washed down by the stream , and it has been shown ( Dodson , 1973 ) that small animal bone is dispersed readily by flowing water . |
| 27 | In tundra habitats , it has been shown that lemmings can eat up to 50 per cent of available vegetation and destroy a lot more during peak years , and as a result of lack of food the rate of decline of lemming populations can be as rapid as the rate of increase ( Batzli , 1975 ) . |
| 28 | It has been shown that different habitats have highly characteristic patterns of species diversity ( Fleming , 1973 ; Krebs , 1978 ; Andrews , Lord & Evans , 1979 ; Avery , 1982 ) . |
| 29 | It has been shown earlier ( p. 31 ) that up to half the bones of their prey are destroyed by even the least destructive owl species , as the MNI is reduced by up to one third . |
| 30 | In fact , it has been shown by Nutku ( 1981 ) that the discontinuities in the derivatives of f and g on the boundaries of region IV indicate the presence of an infinite discontinuity in the Ricci tensor on these hypersurfaces . |