Example sentences of "[noun sg] be shown to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xorandor examines the narrative aspect of the novel by exploring the theoretical problems of story-telling from the point of view of children whose minds have been formed by their exposure to computers ; here techniques specific to narrative are shown to be central to even the most logical of sciences . |
| 2 | For rule utilitarianism , in contrast , once a rule is shown to be felicific , it is established as something to be obeyed , unless perhaps in very special cases , and is not to be considered merely as one factor to be weighed against others . |
| 3 | I 've never seen the sort of breathtaking squalor I witnessed there but give them a day when their neighbourhood is shown to be worth the world running through it , gratefully accepting water and candy from them at the roadside , and it 's amazing the way mutual mistrust can disappear . |
| 4 | The direct effect of job on absenteeism is shown to be zero . |
| 5 | A thorough understanding of the way official statistics were collected and of the workings of the administration is shown to be essential for the proper interpretation of these data . |
| 6 | The parser was shown to be incapable of processing garden-path sentences ( i.e. sentences which cause incorrect syntactic premises to be made e.g. ‘ the cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi ’ ) . |
| 7 | That will only be so if the unbelieving partner is to leave , because at that point the values and foundations of the marriage are shown to be violated and at odds . |
| 8 | Has the test been shown to be reliable ? |
| 9 | Has the test been shown to be valid ? |
| 10 | Underlexicalisation and metaphor are shown to be inadequate for the development of analytical reasoning skills . |
| 11 | The police were said to have had no grounds for intervention unless the scene were shown to be the record of a real murder , so the posters dared the police to prove it real and the public to prove it not . |
| 12 | The synthesis of modifications in the anticodon stem and loop were shown to be the most sensitive ones . |
| 13 | The loss of ozone during the Arctic winter is shown to be up to 35 per cent rather than 10 per cent to 25 per cent as indicated by previous analysis of the data . |
| 14 | However , receptive anal intercourse is shown to be the riskiest sexual behaviour . |
| 15 | Share ownership is shown to be most common in London and the South-east , both in general and for those holding privatisation shares alone . |
| 16 | The loss of ozone during the Arctic winter was shown to be up to 35 per cent rather than 10-25 per cent as previously thought . |
| 17 | It follows that technically it is possible to dispense with " truth-talk " altogether , and if so , the alleged puzzles surrounding the concept of truth are shown to be more artificial than real . |
| 18 | In Chapter 6 , the determinants of the basis were shown to be S t r and D ( l + r ) , rather than expectations of the spot price at delivery . |
| 19 | It is already significant for that reason : the Council 's resolve to condemn mass destruction in modern war is shown to be all the more strong . |
| 20 | God 's way of salvation is shown to be the same throughout the ages : men respond in faith to his initiative in grace . |
| 21 | However , the extent of this new-found tolerance is shown to be limited by the hysteria generated by the disease AIDS against male homosexuals . |
| 22 | Alas , this conclusion was shown to be false in no uncertain manner when , on Christmas eve , instead of being fed , he had his throat cut . |
| 23 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 24 | The concept of four major glacial events , based on classic studies in the European Alps ( Penck and Brückner , 1909 ) and supported by observations in Scandinavia , North America and Siberia , has in the last decade been shown to be an oversimplification . |
| 25 | It is proposed to explain the nine conflict situations with the aid of hypothetical examples within which the conflict is shown to be abused . |
| 26 | The ideal of an unrelated self is shown to be an ideal developed by people who have never been in the position of having primary responsibility for the care of children or the old . |
| 27 | Quine appears to hold that , since , regrettably , the project of providing a reconstruction of human knowledge which traces the credibility of all justified beliefs to the operations of canons of rationality upon intrinsically credible perceptual beliefs has failed , the only remaining motivation for avoiding the use of naturalistic materials in epistemology is an unwarranted desire that our knowledge be shown to be certain . |
| 28 | The product of the flowrate and the dilution factor give a numerical value for the odour emission , which whilst not a direct measurement of odour nuisance is shown to be a guide : the higher the emission the more likely the odour is to give rise to complaints and therefore more likely to amount to a nuisance at law . |
| 29 | This finding is in contrast to previous population-based studies by Boylan et al and Tienari et al and their co-workers , in which this locus was shown to be associated with MS . |
| 30 | A few years later , when Northern Ireland blew up , Irish nationalism south of the border was shown to be a sham , something to wave flags about on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation , but to be kept behind bars under emergency legislation the rest of the week . |