Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] show " in BNC.

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1 The contract price quoted was £605 per car , but the South Metropolitan company 's accounts show £551 18/0d. per car , paid to Brush during 1906 and £388 6/0d. paid to B.E.T .
2 Even when it was clear that this would n't happen and that it would have to accumulate a special fund , especially for the future cost of ‘ decommissioning ’ the stations , the Board 's accounts showed a relatively small amount being set aside .
3 A surviving volume of pursers 's accounts shows another Bristol ship going to Oran in 1480–1 ( 94 , pp.226–9 ; 100 ) .
4 However , leaders of working class women 's groups showed no awareness of this anxiety regarding the role of the state .
5 But work that has been done with story-telling in women 's groups shows that it can be tremendously enjoyable , and bring out a range of expression and imaginative ideas in every participant .
6 Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre .
7 ( For the purposes of this paper , the words ‘ hautbois ’ , ‘ oboe ’ , or ‘ bassoon ’ merely refer to double-reed instruments , without invoking the question of whether these were shawms , Baroque-style instruments , or something in between on the evolutionary scale. ) 8 An examination of livrets for Lully 's ballets shows that the use of woodwinds in a group , as they are found here , is typical .
8 An official survey of Gloucestershire 's roads shows that they 're in their worst state for fifteen years .
9 This skill is assumed to be inborn and intuitive , but one glance at a student 's notes shows this assumption to be unfounded .
10 From a height to the east the land 's patterns show more clearly , and the remains of some ancient structure may be discerned in the heather .
11 In this work it is extraordinarily easy to produce ghost images and chimeras , like the canals on Mars , which may or may not be cracks , but even if Andrade 's patterns showed genuine surface cracks , which seems likely , this would not prove that there were not also internal cracks .
12 Roy 's fans show their support .
13 The accused 's words showed that he did not intend violence and the victim did not apprehend immediate personal violence .
14 Until recently the British Clothing Industry Association subsidised the event , enabling Britain 's designers to show their collections in an international venue .
15 Oh , my word , she thought , as , though he favoured her with a fond look , the cool calculating gleam in Naylor 's eyes showed he was n't too impressed to have landed himself such a devoted fiancée .
16 Candy 's eyes showed her total confusion .
17 Dr London 's pictures show that , in certain parts of the brain , addicts use less glucose than non-addicts do .
18 ‘ Ortega 's limousines showed up about midnight that night , after a meeting with Neil Kinnock , ’ Mr Martin told the Exeter AGM .
19 Charles Booth 's reports and the need for bodies like the Salvation Army and Dr Barnardo 's Homes show the other side of the coin to life in the Hampstead villas .
20 Certainly it has been a main object of Derrida 's texts to show how philosophers , from plato to Husserl , have striven and failed to suppress the signs of rhetorical disruption in the discourse of philosophic reason .
21 Recognizing that audiences could never identify with nobs , Hitchcock 's films showed ordinary people going through extraordinary experiences : ‘ The upper classes , ’ he remarked , ‘ are too ‘ bottled up ’ to be of any use as colourful screen material , too stiffened with breeding to relax into the natural easiness and normality required by the screen . ’
22 Griffith 's calculations showed that the cracks , whatever they were , must h quite narrow , perhaps a hundredth of the wavelength of ordinary visible light .
23 Much to our delight ( and , I must confess , to my astonishment ) Sanjay 's counts showed dramatic effects .
24 Like the Channel Four programme on Thursday , which explores the secret life of the photocopier , John 's workshops showed there is far more to the machine than duplicating documents and jamming the paper .
25 Savary 's statements show that the 17th century bill of lading had begun to function as a ‘ necessary ’ document ; only by showing the document could Savary 's shipper-owner claim lawful possession of the goods he had shipped in his own vessel .
26 Fairbanks 's corals showed him that in the de-glaciating world around 13,000 years ago , a rapid acceleration occurred .
27 Whatever the resolution of these problems , Allen and Burton 's observations show that many surprises are in store as modern observational techniques enable us to probe into hitherto unexplored regions of interstellar space .
28 The contractions recorded were of varying amplitudes , and Cook et al 's tracings show good reproduction by the open tipped tube recordings of both the shape and amplitudeof contractions measured from the serosal strain gauges throughout a wide range of amplitudes .
29 When the day came , 11 years after that international debut , that Moore 's powers showed signs of waning , Ramsey reacted typically by consigning his ‘ golden boy ’ to the bench for a World Cup warm-up game against Austria at Wembley .
30 Braque 's paintings show a continuation of the fragmentation of form and the elaborate surface treatment already seen in Le Port .
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