Example sentences of "be show to be [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polynuclear aromatic compounds have been shown to be effective as carcinogens , especially when in particulate form , while statistical associations have been noted in men between atmospheric pollution and coal mining . |
| 2 | ‘ but invariably , even when we have needed to correct or update details in our reports , the sad fact remains that the overall portrait of horror has been shown to be true and if anything , understated . ’ |
| 3 | Liposomes , which in clinical trials have been shown to be non-toxic and non-immunogenic , may be safer than viral vectors which have the inherent risks of immunogenicity , replication and transmission . |
| 4 | As Stocking has shown , an innovation may be shown to be effective but not adopted widely , whereas another innovation may not have been demonstrated to be effective yet can become widely accepted in practice . |
| 5 | Advantage should be taken of external courses where these can be shown to be relevant and cost effective . |
| 6 | The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid . |
| 7 | On appeal , this assumption could be shown to be false and the village ends up with a significant new development site ; it is this type of appeal decision which leaves the layman surprised and frustrated at the way in which the system operates . |
| 8 | Where the subtests can be shown to be reliable and valid , such subtests scores may provide a useful profile of the child 's ability in a variety of areas . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 11 | I have suggested that it can be shown to be fair or just to do so ; but this may not make it right if some other principle of greater weight is involved . |
| 12 | A large number of facts relevant to a theory must be ascertained by observation under a wide variety of circumstances , and the extent to which the theory can be shown to be true or probably true in the light of those facts by some kind of inductive inference must be established . |
| 13 | According to the latter , only those theories that can be shown to be true or probably true are to be admitted into science . |
| 14 | As the solar luminosity rose some of this CO 2 would have been liberated , but it can be shown to be unlikely that sufficient CO 2 would be liberated to yield present conditions . |
| 15 | Masculine sexuality is shown to be complex and unstably implicated within the whole social domain . |
| 16 | Far better to be tested today and have the chance to put right what is shown to be wrong than to be tested tomorrow and be found wanting . |