Example sentences of "shown [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A dogma that once looked profound had been shown to be no more than a simplistic diagram ; and social reality is too complex , in the end , to be embraced by any single theory of history or of class . |
| 4 | The variance of validity coefficients found in earlier studies was shown to be no greater than would be expected by chance . |
| 5 | This respect for authority has appeared throughout the examples given , but it has also been shown to be a respect within certain limits . |
| 6 | The Colonial Office Circular of 1909 to its employees on ‘ immoral relations with native women , is shown to be a crucial development which involved ‘ a massive and indeed revolutionary intrusion of public authority into the private lives of official classes overseas ’ . |
| 7 | In relative terms , Britain was shown to be a middle-ranking power with her ability to take independent military action strictly limited . |
| 8 | The story that she has no artistic taste was shown to be a lie in January when a collection of her old-master paintings sold well at Christie 's in New York . |
| 9 | ( The selenium analogue of has recently been shown to be a semiconductor . ) |
| 10 | An Italian , Bartolomeo Gosio , in 1896 , described the extraction of a crystalline substance from culture filtrates of a Penicillium : the substance was later shown to be a compound called mycophenolic acid , with interesting biological properties but no valuable antibacterial ones . |
| 11 | Later opium-like activity was found in a group of larger peptides , named endorphins , and of which enkephalin was shown to be a key fragment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The mid-ocean spreading ridge was shown to be a ‘ tape recorder ’ for the planet 's magnetic pole reversals . |
| 14 | Cannabis Teenagers often insist that cannabis is harmless , but it has been shown to be a high risk for certain users . |
| 15 | Garlic extract has also been shown to be a valuable first line of defence against oral thrush . |
| 16 | If women are refused credit because of some credit-worthiness factor ( say , not having a full-time job ) which applies more often to them than to men , that is lawful only if that credit-worthiness factor can be shown to be a justifiable reason for withholding credit regardless of the sex of the applicant . |
| 17 | Hotel leisure facilities have been shown to be a worthwhile investment in that they can : |
| 18 | The centurion is also shown to be a compassionate man , for he cares about the health of one of his servants . |
| 19 | As the temperature fluctuations appear the same on all scales , the spectral index on these scales is constrained to be ( ref. 9 ) , and we shall discuss only the asymptotically scale-invariant form , originally introduced to explain galaxy clustering , and later shown to be a consequence of inflationary models . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After all , earth was not made in a day and there is always scope for a second project once the first has been completed and shown to be a success . |
| 22 | Dictionary definitions constitute a valuable source of semantic knowledge , and the definitional overlap technique has been shown to be a suitable method for applying such knowledge . |
| 23 | However , linear precedence has been shown to be a significant factor affecting the manner in which words associate with each other [ Church & hanks , 1989 ] . |
| 24 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 25 | The — s of cows can be shown to be a semantic constituent by the normal test : |
| 26 | It would seem reasonable , in general , that if a sequence of elements AB can be shown to be a semantic constituent , and one of the parts of the sequence satisfies the recurrent contrast criterion , then the status of semantic constituent should be accorded to the remaining part of the sequence , even if it does not satisfy the recurrent contrast criterion . |
| 27 | Sir , the pond in D thirty nine has been shown to be a breeding place for the Great Crested Newt , but it is also known that it migrates to other ponds , several others , but does not necessarily breed there , but chooses at Skelton . |
| 28 | The tenure of a person 's housing has been shown to be a consequence of marital breakdown in many cases . |
| 29 | RAP30 has been reported to contain a sequence homologous to region 1b and 2 of σ factors of bacteria , which has been shown to be a binding site for the core component of E.coli RNA polymerase and possibly for mammalian RNA polymerase II ( 19,40 ) . |
| 30 | The labelled probe used in these assays was a sequence derived from the herpes simplex virus immediate-early 1 gene which we have previously shown to be a high affinity binding site for octamer binding proteins ( 18 ) . |