Example sentences of "shown to be wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the late eighteenth century , there had developed the ‘ perfectionist doctrine ’ which claimed that ‘ government of the people by the people ’ was most appropriate , but according to Bryce , this had now been shown to be wrong . |
| 2 | Far better to be tested today and have the chance to put right what is shown to be wrong than to be tested tomorrow and be found wanting . |
| 3 | That is shown to be wrong by yesterday 's announcement from British Telecom that the cost of calls is to be frozen , although phone rentals are rising . |
| 4 | The assumption that because the accounts can be shown to be wrong , with the benefit of hindsight , every creditor can blame the auditors , is decisively rejected . |
| 5 | They were hailed in the media as breakthroughs — and then they were shown to be wrong either by their own authors or by others . |
| 6 | McCarley and Hobson , in an analysis of Freud 's psychological theory , have pointed out how deeply was his psychology informed by these neurological assumptions , which subsequent science has frequently shown to be wrong . |
| 7 | The limitations of a theory based on the concept of central forces were discussed by Stokes , and its predictions ( notably that there were 36 elastic constants rather than 21 as found experimentally , and that Poisson 's ratio was exactly 0.25 , contrary to experience ) shown to be wrong . |
| 8 | erm that 's the doubt and that doubt is going to be either borne out or shown to be wrong by the rest of John Major 's incumbents , so at the moment I 'll certainly give him the benefit of the doubt . |