Example sentences of "is shown " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period . |
| 2 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 3 | This is shown in the protestant — loyalist rejection of Terence O'Neill and O'Neillism , and of his successors , Major Chichester-Clark and Brian Faulkner , as prime ministers of Northern Ireland ( 1968–74 ) . |
| 4 | That the local priests continued to play a significant part in the regulation of local sexual morality from the beginning of the state is shown by accounts of ‘ boy meets girl ’ from the 1920s . |
| 5 | That which is hidden is that which is shown . |
| 6 | What gets investment and what is shown has far more to do with the economic stranglehold of the Hollywood studios and the distribution/exhibition chains . |
| 7 | As accuracy and speed increase , the pad is shown for shorter intervals of time . |
| 8 | That there is something he does not know is shown by the fact that if he were to gain his sight , he would come to know something that he previously had not known . |
| 9 | When he is shown a pair of faces and has to decide which of the two is a celebrity , he performs at chance level , even though he performs almost as well as normal subjects on this task when the faces are replaced by their names . |
| 10 | This way of creating more plebeian characters is fully demonstrated in Ashton 's comic masterpiece La Fille Mal Gardée , where this style of dance is shown in two different aspects , the light-hearted yet technically highly expert dancing of Lise and Colas and the comically eccentric work of Alain and the Cock and Hens . |
| 11 | This is shown vividly when , left finally alone , she strikes a dramatic pose of complete withdrawal from love and happiness . |
| 12 | The strength of beer is shown in two ways : the original gravity and the alcohol by volume rating . |
| 13 | One of the first prizes is shown in the main photograph . |
| 14 | The waveform of this current is shown in Fig. 2 which also serves as an illustration of the magnetic field produced by the coil , since this must be directly proportional to the current . |
| 15 | The detailed electronic circuit is shown in Fig. 14 and consists of three basic sections , a power driver for the excitation coil and two identical sense amplifiers . |
| 16 | Software is shown in flowchart form in the table . |
| 17 | The screen replaces the car windscreen , and on it is shown a road scene that has been recorded on video tape , and transferred to disk . |
| 18 | The Technics arrangement is shown in Fig. 2 for comparison . |
| 19 | The culprit is shown in the picture — the RC-coupled amplifier itself , published in the issue for October 10 , 1923 , with its complement of ‘ R ’ valves . |
| 20 | Her hankering for the outside world is shown through a solo where she is cruelly tangled in the legs of a chair . |
| 21 | Jeff Rooker , the MP for Birmingham Perry Barr , who retired from Labour 's front bench last year partly to campaign for PR , said : ‘ A lot more people went away from this conference convinced of the merits of the argument than is shown in the vote . ’ |
| 22 | Shirley 's best friend Jane ( Alison Steadman ) , on the other hand , declares herself a feminist but is shown as merely paranoid and frustrated , cured of her analysis by a brisk holiday romance . |
| 23 | The section they have yet to pass is shown in brackets against their name . |
| 24 | In the United States there is an extensive research programme on neighbourhood policing based at the University of Michigan , and considerable interest is shown by the federal and central governments . |
| 25 | Locked in a marriage with a wife who showed increasing signs of mental instability and whose health constantly brought her to the point of death , exhausted in his work and fearing for his own life and sanity , Eliot 's view of relations between the sexes is at its bleakest , as is shown not least in the epigraphs , which were originally further universalized by including ( in the draft synopsis ) , |
| 26 | PROTESTORS FAIL AS FILM IS SHOWN |
| 27 | Great interest is shown in the activities and scenes depicted : the skill and panache with which cat 's cradle is demonstrated is commented on , the speed and technique of the weavers astounds , the making of crayfish pots and operation of eel weirs is studied intently . |
| 28 | And feeding back through that inversion is an equally scandalous interrogation of the dominant order being mimicked ; civil society is shown to be rooted in a like corruption . |
| 29 | However , in the process the very masculine code of honour which is affronted by Lucio 's perverse failure of masculinity is shown to border on a perversity even more excessive than his . |
| 30 | Masculine sexuality is shown to be complex and unstably implicated within the whole social domain . |