Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be shown to be " in BNC.

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1 Any given rise in unemployment in the winter months , therefore , can only be shown to be significant if it can be demonstrated that the rise is over and above that which is normally expected at that time of year .
2 which can not be shown to be justifiable irrespective of the person to whom it is applied .
3 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 .
4 The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid .
5 If shareholders can not be shown to be morally entitled to the corporate property then they have no antecedent moral right to exercise or allocate the power that flows from it , and accordingly the property rights justification of corporate power must fail , and with it , the project of explaining companies as private shareholder domains .
6 In many ways , their crazy actions are analogous to the hysteria of young girl pop fans , who on first sight seem to be totally out of control , but can clearly be shown to be engaging in an intentional , conscious and structured activity .
7 This can also be shown to be true in BSL , indicating that surface features of languages may be used in different ways to express conceptual material but that these differences should not be seen as deficits .
8 Thus the total number of transactions T in the economy can be taken to be fixed if full employment is the norm , or alternatively the assumption that the quantity of money has no permanent effect on the real sector of the economy implies that T is independent of M. Consequently there should be a definite relationship between the quantity of money and the price level if the velocity of circulation can also be shown to be independent of M.
9 In addition to these , blend dare has also been found with the bare infinitive in a number of other categorizable contexts , all of which can also be shown to be somehow non-assertive : ( 59 ) I only wish I dared write to him .
10 Attitudes can then be shown to be important in the learning of a language , whether signed or spoken .
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