Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] show " in BNC.

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1 He was shy with strangers and afraid of showing his feelings .
2 This is radically different from showing that the original effect was spurious .
3 To demonstrate that learning and memory retention can be improved in animals injected with peptides and tested under highly contrived laboratory conditions is very different from showing that human memory can be helped by popping a pill .
4 In general , the research is clear in showing the critical role of support in the development of depression , but that the relationship between support , crises and depression is far more complex than many researchers have previously conveyed .
5 Their support is then usually too late to avert psychiatric disorder as research is clear in showing that most disorder associated with life events develops quite rapidly after the event .
6 There 's nothing wrong with your legs , so what 's so wrong in showing them off ? ’
7 They 've turned out very well and I have brought some in to show the girls at work .
8 On the other hand there may be publications on your media list which will be interested in showing the packaging , particularly if it has any unusual features or uses new techniques .
9 She were n't interested in showing us anything was she ?
10 The argument postulated above is , however , dependent upon showing not just that this may happen , but that it must happen .
11 The case of a physics teacher who wanted to become an actor is interesting in showing the kind of problems which accompany a late entry into drama school .
12 Then , in Capital , Marx attempts to break through and out of the veil of economic ideology , and he does this by showing that the way the economy is usually talked about hides the real basis of society and served to maintain the exploitation on which it rests .
13 He illustrated this by showing slides of downland areas used by walkers and grazed by rabbits and sheep , who naturally control hawthorn scrub and invasive weeds .
14 Figure 21.12 illustrates this by showing distributions of τ and of its two contributions measured in a zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer .
15 It is VITALLY IMPORTANT that ALL fees are paid promptly , particularly P.A.F. and Insurance as the Sports Council Grant Panel will expect us to prove that we are measuring up to their requirements in the Autumn and we can only do this by showing monies actually received and in the Bank .
16 As Table 6.1 below shows , the proportion of temporary hotel and catering staff who can be described as working on that basis " involuntarily " is lower , and the proportion who can be classified as working on that basis " voluntarily " is higher than for the generality of the temporary labour force .
17 Witnessing is as much about showing people Christianity in the way we live as it is about explaining Christianity by the things that we say .
18 These included conciliatory actions such as showing concern for , comforting , helping or apologizing to the other .
19 It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function .
20 This specification would allow various touching arrangements to be defined ( such as shown in Figure 2.15 ) .
21 Predictions of the regional temperature variations expected to result from a global warming have been compiled by the UN IPCC ( 199Oa ) such as shown in figure 6.16 .
22 When the nucleation density is high , the spherical symmetry tends to be lost as the spherulite edges impinge on their neighbours to form a mass such as shown in figure 11.7 .
23 The initial period of temperature adjustment to the second temperature may make the initial height h o rather difficult to locate , but usually a plot such as shown in figure 10.9(b) is recorded .
24 And certainly some Libyans , fearful of showing themselves in need of education , were willing to accept an officer 's definition of the rules which governed their transactions .
25 But is wholly content with showing You to others .
26 They are , however , relevant to this book for that reason alone ; but they are also instructive in showing the transition to the transcendent ideas of the mystics .
27 Anthropology has been prominent in showing how the marginal in any society tends to pose problems for state institutions and governments ; and the insider must anticipate that his conclusions might well be
28 In renting a movie a national ( monopoly ( TV channel may only pay as much per showing as one major cinema in the same country pays for a week .
29 This myth can be countered in its own terms : first by pointing out that the impressive economic performance of countries like Indonesia and the Philippines , whose per capita incomes have grown by an average of 3.0% a year in the last few decades , took place alongside rapid population growth ; second by showing that Africa 's ten richest countries have similar population growth rates to the continent 's ten poorest countries .
30 The conditions were ideal for showing off the practicalities of using markers .
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