Example sentences of "[noun pl] can be shown [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between par yields and spot yields can be shown using the following example . |
| 2 | In his model , countries can be shown to face one of the four outcomes shown in figure 3.2 . |
| 3 | Likewise , all the remaining senses can be shown to have instigated the arrival of appetites , the satisfactions of which were not directly necessary to survival . |
| 4 | Elements of the formulae used in assessing Grant Related Expenditure needs can be shown to fail by all these criteria . |
| 5 | He can only have it corrected if the official Hansard writers can be shown to have misreported what he said . |
| 6 | If what ( 102 ) entailed was : ( 104 ) You are Napoleon and you are socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Then ( 105 ) would have to have one reading under which it meant ( 106 ) , which it clearly does not have : ( 105 ) Vous n'etes pas Napoleon ( 106 ) You are Napoleon , and you are not socially superior to ( or socially distant from ) me , the speaker Exactly the same , and additional , arguments can be shown to hold for the complex honorifics of " exotic " languages . |
| 7 | The air of human drama and of history in the making is especially potent in times of crisis , when leaders can be shown locked in combat , for example Reagan with Gadaffi over the US bombing of Libya in April 1986 . |
| 8 | The difficulty with this argument is that whatever factor of psycho-social pathology is associated with racism or racists can be shown to exist just as widely in other institutions , or groups . |
| 9 | From the point of view of a radical politics , the onus on the critic , therefore , is to show the ways in which such subversions can be shown to have produced specific instances of change . |
| 10 | If such subliminal presentations can be shown to influence processing of subsequent information in anxious subjects , it would strongly support the suggestion that anxiety-related biases occur at a very early stage of information processing . |
| 11 | As a rule only about 10 per cent of such men can be shown to have the organism when only urethral tests are taken . |
| 12 | From such a general classification , discussed in detail below , two very general conclusions can be shown to emerge : that several categories of small towns saw the provision of some form of internal street network to meet the needs of their inhabitants and that the existence of such a system , coupled with other morphological and functional indicators , might well reflect a higher degree of internal organization and urban complexity . |
| 13 | The grounds upon which a ban is imposed relate to public disorder only , and if the banning authorities can be shown to have taken irrelevant considerations into account in deciding whether to exercise the power to ban , they have acted ultra vires . |
| 14 | We do not believe that such operations can be shown to meet our public transport target safety level , and it may be that some of our European colleagues do not consider such operations to be public transport , or do not apply the same target level of safety to such operations . |