Example sentences of "show them to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers of teeth involved are often quite small , and where there is a major discrepancy between the digestion of the upper and lower teeth in columns 9 and 10 of Table 3.13 , reference to the actual numbers involved show them to be very small indeed , sometimes no more than one ( columns 7 and 8 ) . |
| 2 | Blur tussle with ‘ Maggie May ’ and Suede , whose current B-sides show them to be a better band than the extremes of hype surrounding them might have encouraged you to believe , cover ‘ Brass In Pocket ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ David will take you about and show them to you : he knows so much about it all . ’ |
| 4 | Make your sandwiches look as attractive as you can and show them to your leaders before you eat them ! |
| 5 | ‘ Show them to me anyway , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I like to look at them and show them to my guests . |
| 7 | Go and find your books and show them to daddy , come on . |
| 8 | I 've got a lot of them and , if you want , I 'll show them to you now ’ . |
| 9 | Women 's answers to the questionnaires by which assignments to ‘ stages ’ are made show them to be more heavily represented in the early stages of development rather than the later . |
| 10 | We 'll show them to you when we are ready . ’ |
| 11 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 12 | And I certainly did n't show them to anyone else ! |
| 13 | She hesitated , then suggested tentatively , ‘ We could show them to Aunt . |
| 14 | I even took some photographs of myself crying so that I could show them to Marcus later and he could see how upset I had been . |
| 15 | A lot of them , of course , were so secret that Mr Marr could n't even show them to me . |
| 16 | Even if they have the papers , they wo n't show them to you . ’ |
| 17 | I have n't shown them to anyone else . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've also shown them to some bluegrass musicians , a guitarist and a mandolin player , and they say that they 're really fast once you get used to them . |
| 19 | Stitt added : ‘ We have two videos of it from the BBC and Sky and have shown them to professional people who think it 's a horrible tackle . |
| 20 | Occasionally long-term contracts have been used , but recent experience has shown them to be uncertain , given the volatility of currencies . |
| 21 | Although magistrates are no longer predominantly male , successive studies ( notably Baldwin , 1976 ; but see also Hood , 1972 , and Burney , 1979 ) have shown them to be overwhelmingly middle-aged and middle-class . |
| 22 | Most of these also have children , and studies have shown them to number more than 100,000 in any single year . |
| 23 | He pulled out the little packet of contraceptives and showed them to her . |
| 24 | They created machinery to avoid extending them to those whose ascertainable record showed them to be untrustworthy and likely to default . |
| 25 | As his father had shown him jewels , so he showed them to Grégoire . |
| 26 | Then she showed them to the door . |
| 27 | The weakness of glass fibres brings us to the question of Griffith cracks and it also brings us back to Professor Inglis , whom we left in Chapter 2 worrying about why ships broke in two at sea when simple calculation showed them to be amply strong enough . |
| 28 | Several of the nearer birds got up and flew along the shore , revealing another feature which pin-pointed their origins : the lack of a white rump showed them to be of the race hudsonicus which breeds in northern Canada . |
| 29 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
| 30 | A lecturer at a police training college published essays written by officers in training which showed them to be openly racist . |