Example sentences of "was show [art] " in BNC.

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1 The artist was shown a watercolour :
2 I was shown a conditioning warehouse that can hold 15 million bottles and in which pallets are moved by ‘ robot ’ lifts than run on tracks .
3 But here my fourteen-year-old daughter was shown a film about it in school .
4 Lewis was shown a version in 1932 and admired it enormously .
5 He was shown a potion guaranteeing virility and many children , based on deer 's horn .
6 Reagan was shown a picture of Calero meeting him in the Oval Office ; he did not know who he was .
7 Whenever he was shown a new sexual technique , he would use it the very next night on his new partner .
8 Personality A was shown a list containing words such as ‘ arm ’ , ‘ finger ’ and ‘ toe ’ ; personality B learned a list containing words such as ‘ leg ’ , ‘ toenail ’ and ‘ thumb ’ , and so on with the other lists and personalities .
9 The jury was shown a video of the clash during a Third Division game on December 14 last year , which left Mr Uzzell with a broken cheekbone and a fractured eye socket floor .
10 He was shown a blurred photograph , taken from a moving car , of a thief , an enemy of the state .
11 For the causal task , the child was shown a video sequence ( ABC ) .
12 I asked what was the oldest part of the farm and was shown a flagstone path leading down to a valley .
13 Immediately before Hitler 's invasion of Poland Knox went with A. G. Denniston [ q.v. ] , the head of GC and CS , to a secret base at Pyry , where he was shown a reconstruction of the Enigma cipher machine , which was used by the Germans .
14 David Lloyd Jones at the DES was shown a draft of the letter and objected to the reference to amalgamation , as ‘ precipitating certain apprehensions ’ .
15 He was shown a viedotape of people swimming in the Drina River in bitter winter weather after an air drop , trying to save food that was floating downstream .
16 Today he was shown a play-back of the TV coverage .
17 The jury was shown a 10 minute video made by the special investigation branch of the military police of the bridge in Gornji Vakuf where L/Cpl Edwards died .
18 The jury was shown a 10-minute video , made by the special investigation branch of the Military Police , of the bridge in Gornji Vakuf where L/Cpl Edwards died .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 ’ .
23 And then Skerrett was shown the red card and Platt was sin-binned along with Saints ' Nickle after a flare-up .
24 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 .
25 The right-back was shown the red card in the 63rd minute after a dreadful , two-footed tackle on young Everton striker Billy Kenny .
26 The Anglo-Italian — also blighted by low gates — saw four players sent off in Birmingham 's match with Bari two weeks ago , while West Ham 's Trevor Morley was dismissed on Tuesday against Reggiana at Upton Park and Cremonese 's Luigo Gualco was shown the red card at Tranmere .
27 It did n't , and she was shown the door .
28 Brother Mick , player-manager of amateur side Bognor , was shown the red card after lookalike Paul got in a tangle with Diadora League opponents Dulwich Hamlet .
29 Tork was shown the transcript of a brief conversation .
30 Meanwhile , Everex chairman and CEO Steve Hui was shown the door December 23 , replaced by Jack Kenney , reportedly a restructuring expert .
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