Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] show " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides giving Anselm his only opportunity for showing his abilities in action , the Council of 1102 also gave him an opportunity for displaying his primatial ideal in practice . |
| 2 | When Nicholas Logsdail opened his gallery 's Bell Street extension at the beginning of the season , he created an opportunity for showing different artists in their own spaces . |
| 3 | Self was ‘ reluctant to criticise a Board for showing enterprise ’ and no action was taken . |
| 4 | You may have seen one or two before , but I make no excuse for showing them again as on the last occasion they did not come out very well . |
| 5 | ‘ Enormous admiration for showing us what a ride we are taken for by the funeral directors . |
| 6 | He feels that the church should be helping people overcome problems rather than making money through showing the church to tourists or buying paintings . |
| 7 | ‘ For instance , the man who , up to a short time ago , was chosen to select films from the West for showing in Slovakia , and to attend festivals like Cannes and Venice , was a butcher by trade . |
| 8 | Altogether 66 people accused of minor crimes were released without trial after showing repentance and performing " meritorious services " , it was officially reported . |
| 9 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 10 | A study of showing form , or one particular individual may draw you to a particular breeder 's kennel . |
| 11 | Men are less fortunate , since they not only have to cope with the cultural fear of showing emotion , but also with the dismissive and often lewd attitudes to women with which they are surrounded . |
| 12 | The international exhibition of Chinese art held at Burlington House in 1935–6 , of which David was the chief instigator and director , fulfilled his ambition of showing items from the Chinese imperial collection together with the best of western collections . |
| 13 | He 's proud of his guitar style , he says , and he has every intention of showing it off . |
| 14 | Auguste Comte ( 1798–1857 ) , for example , compared different societies with the intention of showing that all were evolving along a similar path . |
| 15 | I had taken Miss Senga into Hyde Park with the intention of showing her some of the winter birds , and the park is so beautiful at this time of the year , what with the snow piled up . " |
| 16 | Alyssia fiddled with the cutlery , feeling totally humiliated , though she had no intention of showing it . |
| 17 | ‘ Dear sweet Lord above , I do thank Thee for Thy kindness in showing me this lovely woman before I died . ’ |
| 18 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 19 | Loretta frowned to herself , aware that Geoffrey was taking great pleasure in showing off his superior knowledge . |
| 20 | She remembered how Douglas , her new stepfather , had taken pleasure in showing her round Lomond View , pointing out the paintings , the antiques , the porcelain , the like of which she had never seen before . |
| 21 | Crucible sought a way from this impasse by showing Fun Fare ( sic ) . |
| 22 | In division three Hereford are off to Chesterfield … they need cheering up … so lets give them a boost by showing their last win … three goals they nailed into Northampton |
| 23 | The results of the special analysis of the After Redundancy study reported here add to previous research by showing that early retirement must be seen , not only as an alternative to secure employment , but as economic insecurity as well . |
| 24 | With this in mind , in the following chapter , I begin my account of modern social anthropology by showing what illumination this approach brings to beliefs which at first sight appear to require a great deal of explanation . |
| 25 | Trying to present that impossible chimera , ‘ a balanced view ’ , the series in fact reflected the existing power relations in the industry by showing predominantly White , Western , heterosexual films , but clearly an effort was made to complete the picture with some lesbian films and with work ( especially documentaries and shorts ) from outside the familiar Eurocentric tradition . |
| 26 | Not everyone can attempt reform on this scale , but established houses can also bridge the gap by showing themselves , like others , to be human , transforming their ceremony where ‘ everything is as stiff , formal , and tedious , as if your host were a Spanish grandee in the days of the Inquisition 's — Chesney Wold , in effect — into something like the easy welcome of a middle-class home . |
| 27 | He gets a great deal by showing his landscapes at one shilling each visitor . |
| 28 | He begins a description of class consciousness by showing the limitations of bourgeois thought as an explaining away of the existing order of economic relations and an assertion of the immutability of institutions ( Lukács 1971 : 48 ) . |
| 29 | These these black blobs are supposed to be proteins and and I 've tried to er illustrate the orientation of the protein by showing these er these supposedly er glyco er substi substituents on the outside of the cell . |
| 30 | Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles . |