Example sentences of "[was/were] show the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager proved to be very co-operative , and Thornton and Higgs were shown the machines which processed the dolphin meat into round slabs of meal , and a huge open vat of dolphin oil . |
| 2 | With that , she recalls , ‘ we were shown the way to the wicked usurper 's mound straight away ’ . |
| 3 | THE MINEMA IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE makes a welcome reopening with La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , the shorter version of Jacques Rivette 's splendid La Belle Noiseuse which runs for four hours and which we were shown the other day . |
| 4 | In yesterday 's games there were double sendings-off at Tranmere , where Aldo Monza of Cosenza and Neil McNab were shown the red card after an 80th minute bust-up , and West Ham , who had Matthew Rush dismissed along with Pisa 's Giovanni Fasce after a flare-up early in the second half . |
| 5 | Eighty per cent said they would not be offended if they were shown the most intimate moments of love-making . |
| 6 | ‘ 20th Century Boy ’ is the moment where glam meets rock , where the oafish Sweet were shown the door and David Bowie 's hopes of being The Velvet Underground ( only attractive ) were dashed against the bejewelled rocks of his own ego forever . |
| 7 | We were shown the place where F/Sgt Roe had crashed-landed his Halifax ( W1053 ‘ G ’ ) on the shores of Lake Movatnet , sadly with the loss of one crewman . |
| 8 | As with the staff , the children were shown the video and their comments and concerns were counselled . |
| 9 | While only Superman or Wonderwoman could have detected the gap between crease and outstretched bat as the bails were dislodged , the all-important fact is that a million or two television viewers on that Australia Day were shown the truth on the slow-motion replay . |
| 10 | We visited more hides , followed a winding stream , were shown the favourite skulking haunt of a water rail and listened ( with no luck ) for its ‘ lilo-emptying ’ squeal . |
| 11 | You were enticed by the dark magicians into their palaces and their dark citadels and you were shown the powers and the sinisterly beautiful rewards of sorcery . |
| 12 | The following day , we were shown the new Flying Kilometre course at Arc 2000 . |
| 13 | Then we were shown the locker room , which had a section for each class . |
| 14 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 15 | We were shown the place ; there was dried blood on the rocks and sand . |
| 16 | We were shown the great marble slab covering Arthur 's coffin and the chalice well which provided water for the brothers . |
| 17 | Before they started to work with the video all the teachers were shown the contract which was drawn up by Kate Kennett . |
| 18 | In fact , the three of us , all with duty-free Marlboros well alight , were shown the door in no uncertain terms . |
| 19 | Led by Professor Yu Yongten , chancellor of the university , they were shown the dairy-research unit , the recently-installed animal-metabolism unit , work on muscle conformation in sheep and research on flax-retting . |
| 20 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 21 | Some of these men had been loyal workers at Albion for decades yet they were shown the door within a matter of minutes . |
| 22 | The main anxiety about diet which I heard expressed , at least by the administration , was that with the introduction of ‘ fast food ’ facilities , prisoners were showing the same dietary self-destructive tendencies as young teenagers traditionally have done . |
| 23 | Q Associates Ltd from Newbury in Berkshire were showing the MiLAN family of LAN communications products , transceivers and printer servers . |
| 24 | Now all of the screens were showing the site of the pod 's crash-landing . |
| 25 | Mansell was shown the black flag three times after being disqualified for reversing his Ferrari after overshooting his pit during a scheduled stop to change tyres . |
| 26 | From then on , the references to pre-capitalist systems become more and more numerous in the work of Marx and Engels , but it was really from 1880 on , when Marx was shown the work of the American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan that he and Engels gave a major place to the study of tribal societies . |
| 27 | He was shown the puppets too , and the performance can not have gone entirely without excitement , because he mentioned to me explosions backstage and things falling down . |
| 28 | Whitechurch was shown the works by Mr G. Coker , chief draughtsman : ‘ There are two chief ways of seeing the works , either to begin at the finished coach and work backwards to the details , or to go to the beginning first and work upwards , but , at all events , you shall see as much as we can show you in a day ’ . |
| 29 | And then Skerrett was shown the red card and Platt was sin-binned along with Saints ' Nickle after a flare-up . |
| 30 | Since he was shown the door by United , McGrath has confounded medical opinion — and Ferguson 's — and become widely regarded as one of the world 's outstanding centre-backs with his displays . |