Example sentences of "[vb -s] shown [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has shown himself as a devoted family man ; Ms Campbell is twice divorced and childless . |
| 2 | Since winning the super-heavyweight gold at last year 's Olympics , the London-born but Canadian-raised fighter has shown himself to be anything but another pugilistic stereotype . |
| 3 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Bradburn has shown himself to be a fine teacher and a popular colleague . ’ |
| 5 | William Waldegrave , Secretary of State for Health , has shown himself to be no friend of the tobacco industry over the past few weeks . |
| 6 | During the last few months as we have got to know him better , he has shown himself to be exactly the sort of person we had hoped Annabelle would marry — charming , sincere , reliable — with a clear idea of what he wants from life and how to achieve it . |
| 7 | Here now is an Arab leader who has shown himself to be capable not only of standing up to the mightiest military force in the world , but also of retaliating . |
| 8 | Recently he has shown himself to be too easily swayed by Mossadesq " a threats … " |
| 9 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 10 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |
| 11 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 12 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 13 | LOSERS : The Financial Times , which was slow off the mark in exposing Labour 's tax plans and by declaring for Labour has shown itself to be as pink as its paper . |
| 14 | Market related pricing has shown itself to be effective in ensuring that consumers are aware of the real value of the resources they use , not only as it affects energy consumption but also in the realms of energy efficiency investment . |
| 15 | Even the Morning Star which is the paper closest to a political party ( the Communist Party ) has shown itself to be anything but a servant of its political masters . |
| 16 | YTS has been a major provider of new opportunities and through its funding mechanism , its special assessment and age exclusions , and its provision of special equipment and services , it has shown itself to be responsive to the needs of very many young people with disabilities and learning difficulties . |
| 17 | Picketing in various forms has shown itself to be one of the most effective forms of industrial action . |
| 18 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 19 | It is true that history records frequent occasions when this has been forgotten and prejudice has shown itself in religious , racial and class distinctions . |
| 20 | In research terms , this has shown itself in the way that it has become perfectly acceptable to use a wide variety of research techniques in one study , and to use different techniques for the study of different topics . |
| 21 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 22 | In my view , this local authority has shown itself throughout conscious of its duty to keep an open mind about the future of these children and to consider all the potential options in what was often an extremely difficult and fraught situation . |