Example sentences of "[pron] can not be shown " in BNC.
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| 1 | which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the person to whom it is applied . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But feeling does not evaporate : if it can not be shown in one form it finds an outlet in another . |
| 6 | Strictly speaking , it can not be shown that a behaviour pattern develops independently of experience ; only specific , identified factors may be ruled out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And we shall not claim as experience of the Spirit what can not be shown to flow from Jesus . |