Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] show that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which current Conservative cabinet minister was reputed to have said of John Stonehouse 's faked suicide , ‘ This goes to show that old politicians never die , they simply wade away ’ ? |
| 2 | This involves showing that reasonable care was not taken in the manufacture . |
| 3 | One English study showed accident rates of 5–9 year olds 15–20 times higher in residential areas than the 17–59 age group , whilst another has shown that young pedestrians account for 38 per cent of recorded casualties in residential area accidents and young cyclists a further nine per cent . |
| 4 | But for those of us who are gardeners , the bitter experience of the winter of 1981–82 has shown that extreme cold can do lasting damage . |
| 5 | The appeal was not very successful and was condemned by many prominent townspeople , but that it could have been launched at all goes to show that old traditions die hard in the West Country ! |
| 6 | While accepting that there may be cross-subsidy within the AOC charges scheme ( figures for 1990/91 appear to show that 32 operators of aircraft weighing over fifteen tonnes accounted for 59 per cent of CAA regulatory effort but provided 96.12 per cent of AOC income ) , GAMTA says : ‘ In that financial year the cost of running the AOC Charge Scheme was £21 million . |
| 7 | 1982 have shown that lateral heat flow results in anomalies in the normal thermal subsidence profile following crustal stretching . |
| 8 | In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) . |