Example sentences of "[verb] show that [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , X-ray analysis has shown that all these forms of carbon consist of small graphite-like crystals .
2 A number of local authorities have attempted to take more positive action to deal with the issues raised by the 1985 riots , but their experience has shown that such local initiatives are often severely limited by the actions of national government , the police , and broader economic and political pressures .
3 Experience has shown that many real situations are lacking in mechanisms for monitoring what is going on , and taking the necessary control action when the required standards are n't being met .
4 Lawton ( 1977 ) has shown that many rural districts around London and the other major cities have had persistent population increases since 1921 .
5 Research , including work done by NASA at its National Space Technology laboratories in the U.S.A. , has shown that many indoor plants are efficient in removing unhealthy air pollutants such as carbon dioxide , carbon monoxide , formaldehyde and benzene .
6 However , previous research by this group has shown that some diabetic patients suffer a decrease in visual sensitivity that precedes loss of acuity and retinal changes , and the present study is designed to assess the prevalence of this preclinical dysfunction .
7 Less work has been done with animal models , but recent work from India has shown that some homoeopathic remedies in various potencies displayed anti-viral activity in developing chick embryos , whereas other remedies had no anti-viral effect in mice .
8 Research has shown that some old people can not survive the emotional shock of moving to the Home and die within a few weeks .
9 Accumulated research over many years has shown that these traditional methods are not particularly effective .
10 Recent work on adhesion has shown that these classical formulae need to be modified to take into account molecular attraction , which increases the area of contact .
11 In the subsequent paper ( Yurtsever , 1989 a ) , he has shown that these same conclusions are also reached in the case when the polarization of the approaching waves is arbitrary .
12 However , recent research has shown that this particular anecdote is unsubstantiated .
13 A recent survey has shown that most American urologists will also test for prostate specific antigen in any patient in that age group who walks into their office .
14 Some researchers , Sarah Smilanski in particular ( 1968 ) , have attempted to show that some underprivileged children can not engage in play , but lack of concentration is a symptom not a cause .
15 I shall try to show that these three frames of reference are complementary rather than self-sufficient or mutually exclusive .
16 Penrose 's theorem had shown that any collapsing star must end in a singularity ; the time-reversed argument showed that any Friedmann-like expanding universe must have begun with a singularity .
17 But there were also cases which held that the applicant for mandamus had to show that some legal right of his or hers had been infringed by the challenged decision .
18 Many studies of previous generations have shown that many young people leave rural areas before they even enter the job market , and that these migrants are the most able and motivated ( Rieger , 1972 ; Hannan , 1969 ) thus adding weight to the theory of cumulative causation , as the less able young , the old , and the redundant come to form a greater and greater proportion of the population .
19 Its influence can also be seen at work within the North where sub-regional studies have shown that many medium-sized places and more rural areas fared relatively well between 1971 and 1981 despite the general appearance of economic malaise conveyed by the regional-level statistics ( Breheny , Hall and Hart , 1987 ; Champion , Green , Owen , Ellin and Coombes , 1987 ; Townsend , 1986 ) .
20 These analyses have shown that many commercial reagents , including embedding medium , contain alumino-silicate contaminants in low concentrations ( p.p.m. ) , present either as a fine suspension of particles or in solution , when they crystallize out as the solvents evaporate ; they may also preferentially locate on the sulphate and phosphate moieties present in the plaques .
21 Previous works ( 2,3 ) have shown that such mitochondrial DNA endonucleolytic activities can be detected in E.coli when the corresponding mitochondrial intronic ORF was translated in the bacteria .
22 Recently , biochemical analyses have shown that several different types of amyloid fibril protein exist in systemic amyloidosis .
23 Whether or not we ever find out the precise source of the metals , analyses have shown that these early casters in West Africa had a considerable technical knowledge and expertise .
24 Experiments have shown that these virtual particles are indeed present , although we can not detect them directly .
25 Together with evidence from boreholes drilled through continental-margin deposits , investigations using seismic stratigraphy have shown that most passive margins support a wedge of sediment which becomes gradually thinner as it passes seawards from continental to oceanic lithosphere ( Fig. 4.14 ) .
26 Observations of individually marked birds have shown that this disruptive behaviour is adaptive .
27 As to illegality , recent developments in the law have shown that any relevant error of law made by the decision maker , whether as to his powers or as to the law he is to apply , may lead to his decision being quashed .
28 We and others have shown that both duodenal ulcer patients and healthy volunteers with H pylori have increased basal and meal stimulated gastrin concentrations that fall after eradication of the infection .
29 Like the psychologist J.J. Gibson , Ullman attempts to show that many perceptual features can be recognized by relatively low-level psychophysiological mechanisms , whose functioning relies on the information available in the ambient light rather than on high-level concepts or cerebral schemata ( Gibson 1950 , 1966 , 1979 ) .
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