Example sentences of "can [adv] be shown " in BNC.

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1 The factorials can again be approximated using Stirling 's relation and while this requires considerable manipulation , which will be omitted here , it can eventually be shown that
2 But this it can not be said , can only be shown forth as in the suicide letter where Stavrogin writes ‘ My desires are too weak ; they can not guide me . ’
3 Any given rise in unemployment in the winter months , therefore , can only be shown to be significant if it can be demonstrated that the rise is over and above that which is normally expected at that time of year .
4 Even in the simplest case , the lump sum target , it can only be shown that the target can be used to improve welfare under the assumptions that E is neutral in its effect on production and that there are non-decreasing returns to scale .
5 In contrast to neighbouring Cuxton , where a most important Palaeolithic site was discovered in 1962 , the prehistory of Hailing as known at present can only be shown to date from Neolithic , or New Stone Age , times .
6 Generosity can not be shown on demand , for then it is not generosity .
7 Such genetic progress can not be shown in British breeds , claims Prof King .
8 which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the person to whom it is applied .
9 which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the colour , race , nationality or ethnic origins of the person to whom it is applied .
10 If such intent can not be shown , the awareness part of this mental element definition could be used .
11 UEFA have ruled matches played in one country can not be shown on TV in another nation unless permission is given .
12 The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid .
13 I also operate with the assumption that , although my results pertain strictly only to the sample of forty housewives I interviewed , there is no reason why they should not relate to the wider population of housewives , since it can not be shown that the forty women are unrepresentative of the larger population .
14 If shareholders can not be shown to be morally entitled to the corporate property then they have no antecedent moral right to exercise or allocate the power that flows from it , and accordingly the property rights justification of corporate power must fail , and with it , the project of explaining companies as private shareholder domains .
15 In the Brechtian aesthetic , the real struggles of life and oppressed peoples can not be shown , as it were , naturally .
16 If efficacy can not be shown and the proposed intervention is abandoned then the question of harm becomes irrelevant .
17 Though Offa granted land to Woking in Surrey ( CS 275 : S 144 ) , he can not be shown to have had influence here before 784–5 .
18 But feeling does not evaporate : if it can not be shown in one form it finds an outlet in another .
19 The sadness can not be shown .
20 The fact that you 're frightened ( and many men in prison have good cause to be frightened , either of violence from other prisoners and staff or else of homosexual demands ) can not be shown .
21 So too in memory research ; if an animal can not be shown to have learned except by changing its behaviour and this change in behaviour can only be induced by some form of stress or constraint , then the changes in biochemistry that one finds in relation to the learning must include the changes in relation to the stress — including all the types of neuromodulators discussed in the last chapter .
22 And we shall not claim as experience of the Spirit what can not be shown to flow from Jesus .
23 Strictly speaking , it can not be shown that a behaviour pattern develops independently of experience ; only specific , identified factors may be ruled out .
24 If it can not be shown that the person uttering the remarks intended to induce his victim to believe that he was about to engage in violence himself , or intended to provoke the object of his remarks into using unlawful violence , what will be termed here the objective conditions come into operation .
25 It is also , perhaps , not without significance that Fahreddin Acemi is the first to be mentioned as receiving a salary specifically in respect of his function as Mufti , though it can not be shown beyond doubt that he was actually the first to have done so .
26 The poles can not be shown because they lie at infinity .
27 Daniel Field wrote in 1976 that " The fear of peasant unrest … can not be shown to have been decisive in the decision to emancipate " , but Larisa Zakharova took him to task eight years later for failing to explain the emancipation in terms of " the fear of a peasant rising or the moods and struggle of the peasantry " .
28 Using sensitive earthquake-detecting instruments ( seismographs or seismometers ) , it is possible to pin down quite precisely the sites where the shock waves originate in this region , and it can easily be shown that these sites are confined to a narrow belt which dips steeply down under the continental margin at about 60 degrees , and which hits the surface just where the ocean is deepest , in the Chile-Peru Trench .
29 It can easily be shown that the Ernst function Z associated with this solution is given by ( 13.4 )
30 It can easily be shown that " you know what I mean ! " and " you know ! " in this case can not be eliciting an agreement .
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