Example sentences of "was shown to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 2 | In relative terms , Britain was shown to be a middle-ranking power with her ability to take independent military action strictly limited . |
| 3 | The story that she has no artistic taste was shown to be a lie in January when a collection of her old-master paintings sold well at Christie 's in New York . |
| 4 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 5 | Later opium-like activity was found in a group of larger peptides , named endorphins , and of which enkephalin was shown to be a key fragment . |
| 6 | They felt that with the Emperor 's death , their Christian God had deserted them , or had proven incomprehensibly capricious ; or more positively they felt that Allah suddenly was shown to be more powerful and |
| 7 | Early morning was shown to be the peak period , with most accidents taking place between 0600 and 1100 hours . |
| 8 | In the first exact solution of this type , given by Bell and Szekeres ( 1974 ) , the singularity on the hypersurface was shown to be only a coordinate singularity that could easily be removed by a coordinate transformation . |
| 9 | The mid-ocean spreading ridge was shown to be a ‘ tape recorder ’ for the planet 's magnetic pole reversals . |
| 10 | Bukharin understood better than most that Stalin 's mania — as it was shown to be — for breakneck industrialisation was to bring many years of misery and suffering to all the Soviet peoples . |
| 11 | How did the news media , scientists and governments take on board a claim that made no sense within the laws of physics , was based in part on wrong data and that was shown to be flawed within days of the announcement ? |
| 12 | ‘ Goodness ’ was shown to be defined primarily in terms of nurturance ( generosity , helping , etc ) , and ‘ badness ’ in terms of behaviours inimical to affiliation , especially fighting and anger ( see Robarchek 1986a ) . |
| 13 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 14 | There was also a genuine fear that open conflict between the two sides of the industry must be avoided ( a fear which was shown to be not entirely illusory in a subsequent reorganisation , see pp. 194–5 below ) . |
| 15 | Supporting evidence was obtained from experiments in which the ability of a depolarizing stimulus to release radiolabelled glutamate was shown to be elevated in potentiated hippocampal tissue . |
| 16 | We considered subjects positive for HIV as controls in the comparison of pneumonia because the incidence of pneumonia among drug users positive for HIV was shown to be significantly higher compared to drug users negative for HIV . |
| 17 | When Bobby Moore — still trim , still neat , the Mod That Time Forgot — stepped forward to unveil the portrait , Bobby Charlton was shown to be wearing a halo — a luminous skidmark , or slather in the paint , lighting the night sky above his head . |
| 18 | Alas , this conclusion was shown to be false in no uncertain manner when , on Christmas eve , instead of being fed , he had his throat cut . |
| 19 | This animal was shown to be sensitive to electricity by its behaviour towards batteries placed in its tank . |
| 20 | Of all the doctor related factors examined , including personality , knowledge , and consultation style , only a special interest in diabetes was shown to be significantly associated with better control . |
| 21 | But this was shown to be an unattainable goal for the simple reason that the meaning of an existential proposition can not be made fully clear without making use of some existential proposition or other as part of the explanans . |
| 22 | Sir Roy was a popular choice ; he was managing director of Sainsbury 's , the retail grocery chain , and was shown to be a pragmatic and sensible man accustomed to issues relating to the provision of complex services . |
| 23 | Firstly , the United States economic system was shown to be far from invincible : the myth of the Great American Dream was , if not exploded , at least undermined . |
| 24 | A few years later , when Northern Ireland blew up , Irish nationalism south of the border was shown to be a sham , something to wave flags about on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation , but to be kept behind bars under emergency legislation the rest of the week . |
| 25 | In particular , his idea that the depths of the sea were lifeless was shown to be false with the deep-sea dredges begun in connection with the laying of telegraph cables beneath the oceans . |
| 26 | Of more political significance was the fact that opposition to Model B from local government , irrespective of party , was shown to be very strong . |
| 27 | Where statistics on socio-economic factors were accessible and the effect of these could be controlled , age was shown to be somewhat less powerful as a determinant of health among adolescents during pregnancy and confinement . |
| 28 | There the curvature of this surface was shown to be . |
| 29 | The parser was shown to be incapable of processing garden-path sentences ( i.e. sentences which cause incorrect syntactic premises to be made e.g. ‘ the cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi ’ ) . |
| 30 | The main source for agreements was shown to be the Soviet official International Treaty series backed up by other evidence , and the figures for disbursement were compiled largely from evidence extracted from the BBC 's Summary of World Broadcasts , from documents made available to the researcher at the Friedrich Ebertstiftung Institut in Bonn and at OECD in Paris and , in a few cases , by personal visits and observation . |