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'were shown to' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about something that was demonstrated or displayed to someone. For example: "The evidence was shown to the jury, who unanimously decided to convict the defendant."
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His theories were shown to work.
They were shown to be wrong.
The doubters were shown to be wrong.
Their cross-examinations were shown to juries during the trial.
Police commanders were shown to have lied in court.
They entered the shop and were shown to plastic chairs.
Along the way, Bernie Madoff's hedge funds were shown to be a $50bn rip-off.
But he concluded that only 3 of 29 models were shown to work.
Two were shown to be calmly playing cards in their cell moments before the incident.
The images were shown to 120 people including officials from Thomas Cook and Britannia Airways.
In leaked payroll data, female actors were shown to be making less money than male ones.
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