Example sentences of "[be] shown to be [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Stocking has shown , an innovation may be shown to be effective but not adopted widely , whereas another innovation may not have been demonstrated to be effective yet can become widely accepted in practice . |
| 2 | Advantage should be taken of external courses where these can be shown to be relevant and cost effective . |
| 3 | The problems of life-histories and oral history are fairly self-evident : they can not be shown to be representative or valid . |
| 4 | On appeal , this assumption could be shown to be false and the village ends up with a significant new development site ; it is this type of appeal decision which leaves the layman surprised and frustrated at the way in which the system operates . |
| 5 | Where the subtests can be shown to be reliable and valid , such subtests scores may provide a useful profile of the child 's ability in a variety of areas . |
| 6 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A large number of facts relevant to a theory must be ascertained by observation under a wide variety of circumstances , and the extent to which the theory can be shown to be true or probably true in the light of those facts by some kind of inductive inference must be established . |
| 9 | According to the latter , only those theories that can be shown to be true or probably true are to be admitted into science . |