Example sentences of "[pers pn] be shown to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is the only female character allowed into the fortress den and as the story develops she is shown to be both sensitive and sensible . |
| 2 | In these traditional roles she is shown to be effective . |
| 3 | It establishes our authority as catering managers , since we are shown to be not only in charge but doing something positive . |
| 4 | We are a , an innocent man until we are shown to be guilty . |
| 5 | But this , it is claimed , may make them more vulnerable than most to negative emotions when they are shown to be powerless . |
| 6 | True-kin do not necessarily love one another , but it is always presumed that they are friends until they are shown to be enemies . |
| 7 | By contrast , non-kin and affines are presumed to be enemies until they are shown to be friends ! |
| 8 | Whilst showing proper reluctance to enforce these convenants , the courts will , however , do so if they are shown to be reasonable … |
| 9 | Other clauses are subject to a test of reasonableness , and are enforceable only to the extent that they are shown to be reasonable . |
| 10 | Very soon after Prontosil and sulphanilamide became available they were shown to be active against malaria . |
| 11 | Knowledge that plasmodia were vulnerable to sulphonamides was useful , particularly when they were shown to be protected , like bacteria , by p -aminobenzoic acid . |
| 12 | They were hailed in the media as breakthroughs — and then they were shown to be wrong either by their own authors or by others . |
| 13 | Kenya 's tranquillity could vanish if it were shown to be involved : the killing prompted the first of last year 's riots . |
| 14 | Ironically , in the same way that the denial of the risk of harm associated with a possible preventive measure undermines the basis for performing a randomised trial designed to investigate the efficacy of that measure , the exaggeration of the risk of harm tends to undermine public health measures designed to introduce the preventive measure if it is shown to be effective . |
| 15 | Any time after the presentation of a petition and before the making of a bankruptcy order , the court can , if it is shown to be necessary for the protection of the debtor 's property , appoint the official receiver to be interim receiver ( s 286(1) ) . |
| 16 | Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable . |
| 17 | On the wider issue , it has been made clear , not simply from what I have said but through what I have done over many years — in an earlier ministerial capacity and in my present one — that we are more than willing to take action where it is shown to be necessary , once we are sure that such action would be well-judged . |
| 18 | but when held up in the light of the Word , it is shown to be not just merely a stone , but a jewel of great beauty . |
| 19 | It is sufficient if he is shown to be intentionally using violence or if he is aware that his conduct may be violent . |
| 20 | Bukharin understood better than most that Stalin 's mania — as it was shown to be — for breakneck industrialisation was to bring many years of misery and suffering to all the Soviet peoples . |
| 21 | To check for a developmental role for these hypersensitive sites , the presence of the transgene was tested in newborn mice and where it was shown to be expressed ( data not shown ) . |