Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] shown to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The direct effect of job on absenteeism is shown to be zero . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , receptive anal intercourse is shown to be the riskiest sexual behaviour . |
| 7 | Share ownership is shown to be most common in London and the South-east , both in general and for those holding privatisation shares alone . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | God 's way of salvation is shown to be the same throughout the ages : men respond in faith to his initiative in grace . |
| 10 | However , the extent of this new-found tolerance is shown to be limited by the hysteria generated by the disease AIDS against male homosexuals . |
| 11 | It is proposed to explain the nine conflict situations with the aid of hypothetical examples within which the conflict is shown to be abused . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Further , even when the virtue of a feminine personae is not questioned ( as in the case of Belgae or Eirena ) , the rule of a woman is shown to be insufficient to combat the irreligious evil which had gained control of their land . |
| 15 | And feeding back through that inversion is an equally scandalous interrogation of the dominant order being mimicked ; civil society is shown to be rooted in a like corruption . |
| 16 | Transition through training is shown to be a process in which vulnerable young people are stratified into the slots allotted to them rather than being engaged in real decision-making about future choices . |
| 17 | If , in spite of treatment , the foetus is shown to be severely affected the woman may be offered the choice of terminating the pregnancy or undertaking a further course of treatment to help prevent more damage . |
| 18 | The time-dependent form is shown to be Applying the Laplace transform to both sides gives so that the transformed bulk modulus There is a fuller discussion of these topics in ( MP ) and in references ( Ferry 1980 ) , McCrum , Read & Williams 1967 ) including the representation , due to Gross ( 1953 ) , of the relaxation functions as Laplace integrals . |
| 19 | Masculine sexuality is shown to be complex and unstably implicated within the whole social domain . |
| 20 | Hence , there is a positive and linear relationship between risk and return and the relevant measure of risk is shown to be systematic rather than unsystematic . |
| 21 | The results of testing the model over a period from the late 1890s to 1970 are satisfactory for all the variables employed , and the government 's impact upon union growth is shown to be highly significant . |
| 22 | The difficulty with any kind of platonism that claims the ontological primacy of qualities — or any kind of universals — is that in presenting its case it implicitly relies on certain assumptions about existentially unique particulars , which no sooner are made explicit than the whole platonist case is shown to be built on sand . |
| 23 | If , on review , any procedural change is shown to be desirable , the Government will consider the steps that need to be taken . |
| 24 | This classification is shown to be too restrictive to provide an explanatory analysis of all cases of reformulation in discourse . |
| 25 | RIGHT On excavation , the same feature is shown to be an impressive Iron Age grave ; the body had been buried with a chariot . |
| 26 | Further discussion is shown to be necessary in recognizing that ‘ child abuse is centrally concerned with debates about the way we bring up children and is hence centrally concerned with child care ’ . |