Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] show " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 2 | The nurse , a sprightly , middle-aged woman , full of nervous good humour , was set for half an hour 's good jawing before she would think of showing them the girl , but John cut her short . |
| 3 | Any proposal which amounts to a new theory of justification may succeed in showing that in the Gettier cases the relevant true beliefs were not justified at all . |
| 4 | And the proof of determinism would presumably consist in showing that an all-embracing theory of the kind envisaged can be constructed , a theory incorporating every event under some significant description . |
| 5 | If the police hope to gain the trust of the people of Broadwater Farm , they must begin by showing good faith towards those that the residents have chosen to represent themselves — the local council and the community organisations here . |
| 6 | A second approach to the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power might begin by showing that the response outlined so far is fundamentally misguided . |
| 7 | But to my mind the boy could begin by showing more respect altogether to people like your father who have been listening to what the League says about the problems of the land and the bosses and the conditions of the men and women who work on it . |
| 8 | Another on the second point about how far a Christian organisation like this school should go in showing forgiveness . |
| 9 | First how far a Christian should go in showing forgiveness and second how far a Christian organisation like this school should go in showing forgiveness . |
| 10 | First how far a Christian should go in showing forgiveness and second how far a Christian organisation like this school should go in showing forgiveness . |
| 11 | Although I would n't t in interfere with show him how to do the job and er I would make sure he understood the job . |
| 12 | The advancement of one 's own interests will not suffice , nor will that of the interests of one 's own group and the defendant can not escape by showing that his motives are impersonal , disinterested and altruistic . |
| 13 | What sort of work did you start by showing ? |
| 14 | When you eventually had your own gallery , did you start by showing Constructivist Art ? |
| 15 | According to Pierre Rosenberg the museum will never succumb to showing paintings and sculpture , for example , together because that would be tantamount to sacrificing the traditional structure of scholarship at the museum . |