Example sentences of "[vb base] be shown to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 2 | Again he is taking over precisely the ‘ modern ’ definitions and oppositions , between the normal and pathological , the natural and unnatural , etc. , which have been shown to be both confused and ideological in the narrow sense . |
| 3 | Often , both in America and in Britain , hostile takeovers have been shown to be reckless , mistaken and damaging . |
| 4 | In these experiments , two kinds of learning have been shown to be possible in a nervous system with fixed cell numbers and connections , by altering the effectiveness of synapses . |
| 5 | By using chromatofocusing techniques and enzyme assays , the enzymes involved in the biocontrol action of Trichoderma have been shown to be chitinases. glucanases and proteases . |
| 6 | β-Thromboglobulin levels have been shown to be elevated in various types of vascular disease . |
| 7 | The festivals have been shown to be relatively successful by some indicators . |
| 8 | The trick will be to distil these desirable attributes from the new arrangements and to discard the harmful elements ; once they have been shown to be so . |
| 9 | Some techniques , such as cost analysis and cost minimisation analysis , proceed on the basis that the alternatives under consideration have been shown to be equivalent in effectiveness . |
| 10 | The remedies of the homoeopathic materia medica have not , as has happened to their orthodox counterparts , had to be abandoned , as one after another they have lost their efficacy or have been shown to be too toxic to be used safely . |
| 11 | Generally it is helpful to carry out these discussions with managers from sites who have been shown to be performing well ( at least above average ) in the relevant activity . |
| 12 | the recommendations have been shown to be readily accepted both by line and functional management ; |
| 13 | Hotel leisure facilities have been shown to be a worthwhile investment in that they can : |
| 14 | But to the anorexic , that last phrase is a contradiction in terms : autonomy and femininity have been shown to be irreconcilable . |
| 15 | He said he was not satisfied that the fire had been started deliberately , let alone who might have started it and that the scientific evidence was ‘ underlined by a number of assumptions which have been shown to be totally false ’ . |
| 16 | Certainly almost all of the characters that Burdon lists have been shown to be of selective importance either in clover or in some related species , though sometimes under very specialized circumstances . |
| 17 | Now , it turns out , they could n't be : in both Italy and Japan , the guardians of democracy have been shown to be enmeshed in corruption . |
| 18 | Liposomes , which in clinical trials have been shown to be non-toxic and non-immunogenic , may be safer than viral vectors which have the inherent risks of immunogenicity , replication and transmission . |
| 19 | However , head size , birth weight , and intelligence have been shown to be inversely and linearly associated with maternal phenylalanine concentrations , again without any obvious threshold in effect . |
| 20 | Five of the nine infants have been shown to be deleted from part of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene ( table II ) . |
| 21 | Pairs of sentences that have a coherent semantic relation have been shown to be more rapidly processed than pairs in which the relation is less distinct [ Just & carpenter , 1978 ] . |
| 22 | However , n-gram techniques have been shown to be less effective for the present project than word-lookup methods , as they fail to exploit letter-level constraints to the same extent [ Wells , 1989 ] . |
| 23 | Psychological theories of semantics have been shown to be important , since the human information processing system is the best example of a language processing system , and that such theories attempt to produce cognitive models that should be computationally implementable . |
| 24 | And since this means that at least 20 per cent of the captive-bred animals ( with no experience of the wild ) have been shown to be able to hunt for themselves , find shelter from the freezing conditions and evade predators for more than a month , Bob Oakleaf of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department considers the release a success . |
| 25 | In this instance health reports specify the pathogens which have been shown to be absent from the animals . |
| 26 | After about seventy-two hours of sleep loss , " it is impossible to prevent subjects from obtaining brief " microsleeps " " which ( when EEG measures are made ) have been shown to be indistinguishable from brief periods of natural sleep . |
| 27 | On the one hand , in genetic terms , the physical or biological differences between groups defined as ‘ races ’ have been shown to be trivial . |
| 28 | In the spirit of this observation , however , it is not enough to argue that Marx 's views have been shown to be false by the continuing development of capitalist socialisation . |
| 29 | Furthermore , disadvantaged groups , both within our society and in developing countries , have been shown to be at high risk from gestational diabetes . |
| 30 | In experimental animals , gangliosides have been shown to be protective in a number of conditions including anoxic ischaemia , models of Parkinson 's disease , central nervous system trauma , autoimmune neurological disease , and peripheral nerve injury . |