Example sentences of "is show [conj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If it is shown that young people who leave care and have been trained to live independently move quickly into group living situations , what does this tell us about provision for older adolescents ?
2 Ignoring , for the present , the body forces , consider any area S in the body with normal n , and let Q be a point on S. Then in statics it is shown that any system of forces acting on a body can be reduced to the sum of a force F , say , and a couple G acting at the point Q. In the limit of infinitesimal area the ratio F/S tends to a limit — , the traction at Q , while in classical elasticity the ratio G/S is supposed to vanish .
3 For the present we may note that every person is considered to start life with a ‘ domicile or origin ’ , which will be , as a rule , the domicile of his father at the time of his birth ; and that this domicile of origin continues until it is shown that some other domicile has been acquired , and is restored whenever an acquired domicile is lost without the acquisition of another .
4 Although it is argued that the total value of the firm will remain constant , it is shown that this will be so because the price of equity will fall so as to offset the impact of using debt .
5 Resistor R1 is shown as two 0.47ohms 3W types ‘ wired ’ in parallel , but a single 0.22ohms resistor of 6W rating may be used instead .
6 On the retina of the left eye in 1a , the ( inverted ) image of the left-hand edge is shown as taller than that of the right-hand edge , to reflect the fact that the left-hand edge is nearer that eye , and therefore subtends , at its nodal point , a distinctly larger angle than the right-hand edge .
7 Eg 4 pm is shown as 16 00 hrs , 5.30pm is 17 30 hrs etc .
8 Raleigh , sung by a bass , is shown as dignified , even pompous , slightly resentful of the aspirations of younger courtiers such as Mountjoy and the Earl of Essex .
9 On the one hand , private enterprise is presented as efficient , cost-effective and competitive while public provision is shown as wasteful , inefficient , and concerned more with the interests of the workers involved than with the consumers of the service .
10 The activity is shown as x-fold activation on P A3 or x-fold repression on P A2b .
11 It is important that love and forgiveness are still shared , that tenderness is shown and that constant healing follows understandable outbursts on both sides .
12 Research is showing that many animals actually do possess a sixth sense but this is a natural " supersense " , rather than anything supernatural .
13 Research is showing that many animals respond to other weather cues .
14 We wake and sleep according to the sun 's cycle , and research is showing that celestial rhythms still control many other areas of our life .
15 The function of tragic myth is to show that all things , even such ugly discordance , are part of an " artistic game " played at the heart of things .
16 In the words of Leolin Price , QC : ‘ All that is needed in any particular matter is to show that some individual Member State will not take government action at Member State level to achieve what is proposed .
17 One objective of the analysis is to show that this institutional arrangement will cause local authority spending to differ from the usual predictions of the traditional model .
18 It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work .
19 The specific objective of this paper is to show that these children have the worst mortality record of any social group .
20 If the point of the reference to Marx is to show that emergent English trade unionism had anticipated his conclusion that workers must take control of the means of production , that , to re-iterate his contemporaneous quotation from A Member of the Building Union : ‘ labour and capital will no longer be separate but they will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of the workmen and work-women ’ ; and again , this time from Bronterre O'Brien to the effect that the object of combination was ‘ to establish for the productive classes a complete domination over the fruits of their own industry … .
21 The idea is to show that environment-friendly modes of transport can be just as quick , if not quicker , than the private motor car .
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