Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [modal v] [be] shown to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are plans to put this programme on to videotape , so it can be shown to customers locally without the need for lengthy and expensive trips to the UK . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If it is possible to generalize from this at all , it is that presence of predator remains in a fossil assemblage gives no indication of method of origin of the assemblage , even if it can be shown to be accumulated by a predator . |
| 5 | Increase in enamel thickness , but the enamel is even thicker than in afropithecins , as measured for the Pasalar sample , with relative enamel thickness of 19.71 ( ref. 47 ) , although it has yet to be measured for any of the African Kenyapithecus ; this character may be diagnostic of node 1A if it can be shown to be ancestral for both pongines and hominines ; |
| 6 | If it can be shown to the satisfaction of the jury that the defendant had the intention , he has very little opportunity to exculpate himself on the grounds that he lacked mens rea , as will be explained further presently . |
| 7 | In contrast , if the supplier undertakes to use reasonable care to manufacture the machine in accordance with the agreed specification , it could be argued that the supplier is only liable for any departure from the specification if it can be shown to be due to negligence . |
| 8 | The proposed development is contrary to the stated policy of the local planning authority where new dwellings in the countryside are normally resisted unless they can be shown to be justified by agricultural need . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The danger consists in imagining some essence of Christianity , for example , that , because it may be shown to be immune to scientific criticism today , is assumed always to have existed and therefore , properly understood , is always impervious to criticism . |
| 11 | Hinshaw makes a distinction between the ‘ cognitive ’ and ‘ evocative ’ contents of knowledge suggesting that the ‘ truth ’ , at the semantic and syntactic levels , can be considered in isolation from the social basis of knowledge in so far as it can be shown to be cognitive rather than evocative . |