Example sentences of "can be shown " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind he likes he calls ‘ detail ’ , as opposed to ‘ long shots ’ — the equivalent , that is , of the long shots over-used by cameramen of the Iranian Revolution : ‘ it is through details that everything can be shown ’ — that truth can be shown . |
| 2 | The kind he likes he calls ‘ detail ’ , as opposed to ‘ long shots ’ — the equivalent , that is , of the long shots over-used by cameramen of the Iranian Revolution : ‘ it is through details that everything can be shown ’ — that truth can be shown . |
| 3 | Furthermore , such short periods of ‘ directed ’ research can be shown favourably as a saving over any extended degree course in the budgets . |
| 4 | Other existences rub off on him , as can be shown at the grammatical level when he overhears a student and an army officer discussing the money-lender . |
| 5 | They will only be challenged if ‘ it can be shown that the proposed referral is wholly unjustified on clinical grounds , or where an alternative referral would be equally efficacious , taking into account the patient 's wishes ’ . |
| 6 | For convenience the patterns can be shown on graphs ( fig.6.8 ) as a series of statistical ellipses which represent 90 per cent of the results from each quarry . |
| 7 | Also , a wide range of styles can be shown . |
| 8 | If you like , this information can be shown in a frequency table ( Table 3 ) . |
| 9 | Not infrequently the father of a masochist can be shown to have had some abnormal development of the brain . |
| 10 | Sometimes it can be shown that the tissue not only looks homogeneous , but actually is so , because , if the tissue is cut in half , each half will regulate to give rise to the same pattern as would otherwise have been produced by the whole . |
| 11 | The kind of language game in which we talk about ‘ the back of ’ something is one in which that expression has meaning because it has evolved out of all kinds of activity in which ‘ backs ’ exist and can be shown to exist , because verified either by our own movement through space-time or by that of other persons , or both . |
| 12 | The bout has been switched from May 2 , so that it can be shown on television . |
| 13 | If anything can be shown , it would appear that probation is more effective than prison in reducing the risk of further offending . |
| 14 | By using quasielastic light scattering , the micellar system can be shown to contain monodisperse , spherical aggregates with an average radius of 22.7Å . |
| 15 | It can be shown that individuals and groups welcome the opportunity to contribute to debate and to participate in policy making . |
| 16 | Discrimination in education , as in other spheres covered by the Act such as employment ( see Chapter 9 ) is also permissible if it can be shown to be ‘ justifiable ’ . |
| 17 | Alternatively , slides can be shown . |
| 18 | In La Route des Flandres , for example , there is ample evidence that many of the fictional sequences emerge as a result of an exploration of the properties of certain words : the inherently fertile nature of language can be shown to have generated the subsequent text , and , through the use of metaphor and metonymy , the associations of both memory and language work together in the production of the text . |
| 19 | Male contacts of women with trichomonal vaginitis can be shown to harbour the organism in a certain proportion of cases , and this proportion can be increased if extra care and time is taken looking for the protozoon . |
| 20 | Probably a majority would recommend treatment of the female sexual partner(s) with at least the first attack of NSU , but , as with gonorrhoea where up to one third of female gonorrhoea contacts can be shown not to have the disease , such a policy of treatment without diagnosis is bound to lead to a certain amount of overtreatment . |
| 21 | A high proportion of patients who develop Reiter 's disease can be shown to have HLA B27 tissue antigen which is also found in people who develop arthritis associated with the skin disease psoriasis and those with ankylosing spondylitis . |
| 22 | As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken . |
| 23 | Courses of treatment vary from one to seven days and although it is always preferable to examine the male sexual partner of an infected woman , because of the difficulties of making the diagnosis in men it is sometimes justifiable to treat the male without confirming the diagnosis , particularly if it can be shown that reinfection has taken place . |
| 24 | Over 60 per cent of children aged five can be shown to have been infected with herpes virus , and this figure approaches 95 per cent in adults . |
| 25 | It could well and easily be replaced by a doctrine which has it that the surgeon 's act carries liability only if good faith and due care and skill can be shown to be lacking . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 28 | A very precise lawful and repeated fixed relationship between stimulus and response can be shown in the laboratory . |
| 29 | It seems that public concern is mostly raised when the pollutant is easily observed and can be shown to be due to some organisation flouting the law . |
| 30 | If it can be shown to be successful at bureau level then there are certainly grounds for extending it throughout the democratic structure of the CAB . |