Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] show " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some farmers have beef cattle , some for breeding purposes or for showing purposes . |
| 2 | It was held that in showing that he relied upon the figures in Lloyd 's Register and had disregarded the figure in the ship 's documents , he had failed to prove that he had had reasonable grounds to believe the truth of his misrepresentation . |
| 3 | In many cases , I do not believe that the return from spending an extra £5000 or £10000 on producing a commercial — rather than on showing it — can easily be justified . |
| 4 | If it 's to be helpful if if Mr is saying on behalf of the Parish Council that by showing it in this way on the key diagram , he feels is prejudicing or the Parish Council 's position is prejudiced at some future date , then it 's to be helpful to that that the County Council is saying it is prepared to show it simply as a an arrow and similarly for consistency it would seem to make sense to show the western in the same fashion . |
| 5 | First within Jerusalem , where three thousand are converted on the day of Pentecost itself ; it would be hard to stress more emphatically the link between the Spirit and mission than by showing such effective evangelism as the result of the reception of the Holy Spirit on that notable day ! |
| 6 | Many thanks for meeting myself and my colleagues last week and for showing us the area of the factory in which we can film . |
| 7 | Like anyone who came of age during the '60s , Young owes an often acknowledged debt to Dylan , both as a songwriting influence and for showing how to turn questionable vocal talent into great singing . |
| 8 | Finding out about your client provides opportunities for talking to him in a relaxed and warm manner and for showing that you are interested in him as a person . |
| 9 | She rather thought then that they would be returning to their hotel , and , because she had enjoyed everything so much , she added sincerely , ‘ And thank you for taking me around , and for showing me so much . ’ |
| 10 | Ethnomethodology has developed various ways of demonstrating these unwritten rules of social life , and of showing how they are continuously achieved by social actors . |
| 11 | These assertions , which would of course be very difficult to demonstrate in a literal or historical sense , are justified as part of Pareto 's general scheme of the equilibrium of social systems , which rests on a social-psychological basis : ‘ The principle of my sociology rests precisely upon separating logical from non-logical actions and in showing that in most men the second category is far larger than the former ’ . |
| 12 | This book is courageous in exposing the violation of women at the hands of medical and scientific practitioners , in placing this medical malpractice n social and feminist contexts , and in showing that all women will be effected by reproductive technology if it is allowed to go on . |
| 13 | In the US similar trends are evident with women aged 75 and over showing a 20.6 per cent increase in life expectancy between 1965 and 1985 ( Verbrugge 1989 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ in a zebra controlled area proceeding towards the limits of an uncontrolled zebra crossing ’ This point is proved by briefly describing the lawful markings etc. of the crossing and pointing out that they were clearly visible and unobscured , by the observation of a prosecution witness regarding the direction of travel of the offending vehicle and by showing the absence of control at the crossing . |
| 15 | Over 90 per cent stated that they frequently supervised and assisted small groups of children engaged in educational activities set by the teacher , and encouraged children by offering appropriate attention and by showing interest in their activities . |
| 16 | /He hath honoured me of late ( 31f. ) — she is able to sweep his scruples aside by mocking his cowardice and by showing her own readiness to be the accomplice in this ‘ terrible feat ’ . |
| 17 | We believe that the argument is strengthened by linking it to Melossi 's ‘ discursive chain of discourse ’ and by showing how this discourse changed in the 1970s . |
| 18 | Usage of the library was boosted this year by promoting its services at conferences and local centre meetings and by showing foreign visitors how the library could help them . |
| 19 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 20 | The news-stand was not due to open for an hour but after showing his ID card to a guard Benin asked that a copy of Pravda be delivered to his office the moment it arrived . |
| 21 | Many of the early writers in the nineteenth century were not concerned with separating the two disciplines , and marking out the one from the other , but with showing their similarities . |
| 22 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 23 | The traditional way of disseminating and institutionalising information within the services and among language groups is not in the main by the written word but by showing and sharing . |
| 24 | Because by showing that it wo n't work , it liberates people for some other and perhaps more comprehensive and satisfactory possibility . |
| 25 | The most obvious moral interpretation of the assimilation of monk and merchant does not lie in the drawing down of the merchant to the level of the monk so much as in showing the monk to be transgressing the bounds of his special profession by entering into the commercial market place to procure a whore for himself . |