Example sentences of "[be] shown to be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second and more serious line of criticism is that the empress 's claims to real enlightenment and concern for the welfare of her subjects are shown to be a hollow pretence by the intensification and geographical extension of serfdom in Russia during her reign . |
| 2 | Dictionary definitions constitute a valuable source of semantic knowledge , and the definitional overlap technique has been shown to be a suitable method for applying such knowledge . |
| 3 | Hotel leisure facilities have been shown to be a worthwhile investment in that they can : |
| 4 | The mythopoeic power of music has already been shown to be a decisive force in Greek literary history . |
| 5 | There is a famous sequence of " Going over the top " in the First World War which has been shown to be a staged sequence . |
| 6 | In addition to its biological activities in stimulating platelets and neutrophils , and enhancing vascular permeability , exogenous platelet activating factor has also been shown to be a potent ulcerogen , inducing extensive gastric mucosal damage and hamorrhage associated with septic shock . |
| 7 | The 1983 Conservative Party manifesto argued ( p. 37 ) that the six metropolitan county councils and the GLC had ‘ been shown to be a wasteful and unnecessary tier of government ’ . |
| 8 | Garlic extract has also been shown to be a valuable first line of defence against oral thrush . |
| 9 | Formation of clusters with unprimed T cells has thus been shown to be a functional feature of dendritic cells ; this may explain the striking appearance of S-100 protein + cells in Peyer 's patches , which are considered important sites for induction of primary immune responses . |
| 10 | This claim has been shown to be a considerable misstatement . |
| 11 | Cannabis Teenagers often insist that cannabis is harmless , but it has been shown to be a high risk for certain users . |
| 12 | RAP30 has been reported to contain a sequence homologous to region 1b and 2 of σ factors of bacteria , which has been shown to be a binding site for the core component of E.coli RNA polymerase and possibly for mammalian RNA polymerase II ( 19,40 ) . |
| 13 | However , linear precedence has been shown to be a significant factor affecting the manner in which words associate with each other [ Church & hanks , 1989 ] . |
| 14 | This has been shown to be an effective and rapid method of training but it does require intensive supervision from an adult . |
| 15 | Collaborative problem solving has previously been shown to be an effective stimulus to individual learning in certain circumstances , using somewhat ‘ artificial ’ tasks . |
| 16 | The colon weight/body weight ratio was calculated as an increase in this ratio has been shown to be an accurate marker of colonic inflammation . |
| 17 | It is much more disconcerting that the CD4 count has been shown to be an unreliable indicator of the effectiveness of drug treatment in HIV infection . |
| 18 | Claims based on procedural unfairness will therefore succeed if the unfairness can be shown to be a serious breach of contract . |
| 19 | The — s of cows can be shown to be a semantic constituent by the normal test : |
| 20 | It would seem reasonable , in general , that if a sequence of elements AB can be shown to be a semantic constituent , and one of the parts of the sequence satisfies the recurrent contrast criterion , then the status of semantic constituent should be accorded to the remaining part of the sequence , even if it does not satisfy the recurrent contrast criterion . |
| 21 | If women are refused credit because of some credit-worthiness factor ( say , not having a full-time job ) which applies more often to them than to men , that is lawful only if that credit-worthiness factor can be shown to be a justifiable reason for withholding credit regardless of the sex of the applicant . |
| 22 | What was clearly stated was that the police have now powers as such to ban an event , unless it can be shown to be a public nuisance , and that they have no desire to fall out with all the local charities . |
| 23 | FEARS were expressed yesterday that safety plans for North Sea platforms may put too much emphasis on equipment and hardware , rather than management and human factors , which were shown to be a main contributory cause of the Piper Alpha disaster . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | RIGHT On excavation , the same feature is shown to be an impressive Iron Age grave ; the body had been buried with a chariot . |
| 26 | Later opium-like activity was found in a group of larger peptides , named endorphins , and of which enkephalin was shown to be a key fragment . |
| 27 | In relative terms , Britain was shown to be a middle-ranking power with her ability to take independent military action strictly limited . |
| 28 | Sir Roy was a popular choice ; he was managing director of Sainsbury 's , the retail grocery chain , and was shown to be a pragmatic and sensible man accustomed to issues relating to the provision of complex services . |
| 29 | For the same reason we feel that it is important to determine ICAM-1 expression in tissues and serum samples of patients with colonic cancer , because ICAM-1 expression on melanoma was shown to be an important pathophysiological parameter . |
| 30 | But this was shown to be an unattainable goal for the simple reason that the meaning of an existential proposition can not be made fully clear without making use of some existential proposition or other as part of the explanans . |