Example sentences of "shown to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On behalf of the family of my late brother , Robert , I wish to thank you for the compassion and care shown to him by your organization during his long and difficult illness . |
| 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 | Oh , geniuses inspired in all the arts , who draw from things only such elements of them as are to be shown to the mind ! |
| 4 | This will be shown to be particularly the case in the next chapter on the relationship between catholicism and the Irish constitution . |
| 5 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 6 | This respect for authority has appeared throughout the examples given , but it has also been shown to be a respect within certain limits . |
| 7 | Setcreasea purpurea ( purple heart ) is an easy-to-grow trailing tradescantia , with long , elegant deep purple leaves , shown to best effect in good light . |
| 8 | For even at the generally modest level of competition that Beckenham offers , the British are shown to be dismal failures . |
| 9 | There was suitable razzamatazz at Waterloo on 10 June when the blue/white/red/grey livery was shown to the press on two Class 455 units and a Class 50 Howe hauling a short rake of Mark 2 coaches . |
| 10 | In addition to the courtesy the partners show to each other , there are also the courtesies that must be shown to the bystanders on stage during a pas de deux so that such reciprocation can help to focus the audience 's attention on the context of the dance . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Raymond Tallis , whose own training is in medicine , has shown to what extent one of Lacan 's key concepts , the importance of the ‘ mirror stage ’ in the development of the infant 's sense of self , has no base in clinical experience . |
| 12 | One widespread assumption is that the documents shown to the Irish News were probably genuine , but this does not necessarily indicate an organisation is in operation . |
| 13 | Terry McLaughlin , the deputy editor of the Irish News , said some of the material shown to him was marked ‘ top secret ’ , the highest security classification , and went beyond the type of photo-montage material that has been widely leaked over the past month . |
| 14 | The medical report shown to the court from the King 's Lynn Health Authority on the girl 's mental faculties assessed her on a variety of indicators , including mental arithmetic , reading ages , concepts , and spelling . |
| 15 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 16 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 17 | Mr Brown refused to say how the papers had been shown to him or to disclose their further contents . |
| 18 | Although paperwork is boring , it is not difficult to do , but there are other duties where there is a risk of being shown to be incompetent , which are disliked for this reason . |
| 19 | Again he is taking over precisely the ‘ modern ’ definitions and oppositions , between the normal and pathological , the natural and unnatural , etc. , which have been shown to be both confused and ideological in the narrow sense . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Masculine sexuality is shown to be complex and unstably implicated within the whole social domain . |
| 22 | Also , two of masculinity 's basic characteristics , sexual prowess and violence , are shown to be inextricably related , as indicated for example by the conventional but still revealingly obsessive association of sword and phallus ( e.g. at ii . |
| 23 | In an extraordinary speech masculinity is further shown to be rooted in a sexual violence performed inseparably against both men and women — ( Vitelli to Clara ) : |
| 24 | On issues like this Coetzee 's sensitivity and grasp of detail are shown to good effect : but with regard to the broader historical significance of these organizations he is less assured , and he leaves untouched some of the more important questions raised by his work . |
| 25 | The Colonial Office Circular of 1909 to its employees on ‘ immoral relations with native women , is shown to be a crucial development which involved ‘ a massive and indeed revolutionary intrusion of public authority into the private lives of official classes overseas ’ . |
| 26 | The idea of the unchanging east was widespread in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thought and it seems that Marx accepted this view , although it has subsequently been shown to be misleading . |
| 27 | Now I have begun to understand , bad pay , rotten conditions and this insufferable contempt shown to us , it is a part of the same picture . |
| 28 | For example the sport of crown green bowling , which was very little known outside of the north of England , has been shown to a wider public ; the greens are often oddly bereft of spectators , and the northern accents of the players are plainly audible as they urge on their woods or confer solemnly as a pair over the last bowl of an important ‘ end ’ . |
| 29 | In 1923 , some 25 per cent of the films shown to the trade were British ; the following year it was only five per cent . |
| 30 | The most spectacular of these have been some magnificent specimens of Verdigris agaric , Stroparia aeruginosa , shown to me by Maureen Defty , a local farmer . |