Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] show that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This case shows that real problems can arise even if an agent is specifically instructed to make tachochart analyses .
2 This case shows that statutory provisions regarding payment of costs need not impinge upon the right of a party to litigation to recover his costs by means that do not involve payment .
3 This study shows that parietal cells , with their specialised functions of acid and intrinsic factor secretion , are present from 13 weeks of gestation , and at this stage these cells occupy the whole stomach .
4 When further research showed that other circles of almost six miles radius ( double that of Rennes-le-Chateau ) had already been found in the county Wiltshire and the midlands and were even more clearly marked by ancient building , I determined to investigate the phenomenon .
5 This figure shows that daily rhythms are less marked but show a similar pattern ( that is , general shape and timing ) when measured in the absence of external rhythms .
6 In the wake of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , a damning report from English Nature shows that ancient woodlands have declined by nearly 50% in the past 50 years — that is faster than the felling of the rainforests in Brazil .
7 There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile .
8 A CONFEDERATION of British Industry survey out this morning shows that new orders and output among small manufacturing firms have declined at a greater rate than expected since July .
9 This example shows that environmental factors can not be cleanly isolated from biological ones .
10 The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) would harp on the same theme , announcing that ‘ Every week some incident shows that certain parts of London are more perilous for the peaceable wayfarer than the remote districts of Calabria , Sicily , or Greece , once the classic haunts of brigands ’ .
11 Eliot 's work was never performed by puppets , but Cornford 's influence remained central , and a 1933 letter shows that other ideas expressed in ‘ The Beating of a Drum ’ played their part in Eliot 's concept of his play .
12 * A leaked memorandum shows that growing amounts of untreated nuclear waste are being stored at the UK Atomic Energy Authority 's base at Aldermaston , due to delays in constructing safe disposal sites , in part for fear that they will not meet safety requirements .
13 Keith Geddes , leader of the Lothian Labour group , said legal opinion showed that local authorities would be justified in conducting a referendum on a firm proposal at the stage when the Government publishes a white paper on the future of water and sewerage services .
14 Holtermann 's analysis of data from the 1971 census using six indicators of inadequate housing showed that urban conurbations , particularly Clydeside and London , contained a disproportionate amount of inadequate housing .
15 Paleontological and zoological evidence shows that ectothermic bones contain few primary vascular channels .
16 The fact that two years later the HMI Secondary Survey showed that popular fears about falling standards were largely unfounded did conspicuously little to change the prevailing attitude .
17 One treasury suggestion is to cut senior personnel because one estimate shows that junior ranks have taken the brunt of the cuts so far .
18 In a general sense the evidence examined in Chapter 2 ( that in many parts of the world , soil erosion , floods , soil degradation and deforestation were probably getting worse ) could be used in a crude sense to show that conservation policies have not succeeded .
19 West Frankish dispute-settlements of the mid-ninth century show that lesser landholders were perfectly capable of taking evidence on board , considering it rationally and reaching recognisably fair conclusions ; also that they could distinguish between genuine verdicts and frauds .
20 Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each .
21 Lending to small business owners has become an important profit centre for banks and the importance of establishing an efficient means of raising finance is also vital to the economy , because ‘ recent evidence shows that small firms have been the major creator of new jobs in the 1980s ’ .
22 However , other evidence shows that lone mothers are in general worse off than lone fathers ( Knight , 1981 ; Millar , 1989 ; Bradshaw and Millar , 1991 ) .
23 Despite the considerable damage , they found desks and filing cabinets intact and a preliminary inspection showed that valuable paintings by Sutherland and Bacon , in the executive suite on the top two floors , appeared to be intact .
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