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

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1 In addition to the group of economists who confirm the recovery , the government 's own composite of leading economic indicators showed a bullish increase on Friday .
2 Experiments with exogenous compounds showed a good correlation between amounts added and amounts measured .
3 The car gave a roar , then slowly moved out of the garage ; the dim side-lights showed a pale flicker on the back of the house , then swung around for an instant on to the gardens .
4 The distribution of spontaneous amplitudes showed a major peak at 250μV , which is in reasonable agreement with the quantal size of the evoked response .
5 In contrast , the British workers showed a high level of contentment with the existing procedures of decision making .
6 Frances Collier 's detailed studies show a skilled group living at the advancing edge of technology yet who were largely able to offset the falling piece rates thus entailed by greater output .
7 During the 1970s both daily papers showed a heavy reliance on foreign material , and not only for non-African news .
8 Future projections show a marked fall in the numbers of young people entering the labour market .
9 The results of the computer run using the real sites showed a five-point alignment , which would be expected by chance only once in 250 runs .
10 ( Though Biarritz was already very fashionable in the 1860s , thanks to the patronage of Napoleon III , and Impressionist paintings show a visible interest in the beaches of Normandy , the continental bourgeoisie was as yet uncommitted to salt water and sunshine . )
11 The latest official figures show a big rise in the amount of money in the economy .
12 Psychologists and cognitive scientists show a continued interest in the way in which people come to understand what they are reading .
13 According to this approach , employment and real wages show a systematic tendency to diverge from what would be produced by the simple pressures of demand and supply of labour .
14 Left handers showed a consistent direction of movement in the experimenter-in-front condition , but no systematic relationship between direction of eye movement and question-type in the experimenter-behind condition .
15 National figures show a marked shift away from consumption of alcohol in pubs and clubs and towards consumption at home , as demonstrated in the following table :
16 The announcement accompanied full-year figures showing a 73 p.c. rise pre-tax profits to £3.51m , which excludes a £400,000-plus profit on the sale of its 29.9 p.c. stake in AmBrit , and a one-third rise in dividends to 6p , with a 3½p final on May 21 .
17 The warning accompanied full-year figures showing a 21 p.c. rise in pre-tax profits last year to £6.67m , on sales 27 p.c. ahead at £48½m .
18 Comparisons with previous records showed an extensive decline along the chalk cliffs , where Walpole-Bond recorded never less than about 30 pairs , and nearly 100 in 1919 , but the survey found only 10 pairs .
19 In many organisations , junior managers show a strong preference for working in project teams , with a clear task or objective , and working outside the normal bureaucratic structure of a large formal organisation .
20 These late plays show a continuing interest in moments when ‘ life is elevated to the dignity of dance or liturgy , with a gaiety ’ , which Eliot ( perhaps with a glance at Yeats 's ‘ Lapis Lazuli ’ ) now sees as ‘ in all great poetry , and the greater seriousness behind the gaiety .
21 The good responders showed a persistent improvement in external anal sphincter function , while in the poor responders it had reverted to prebiofeedback values .
22 Good leaders show a true awareness that organisations are ‘ open ’ systems , reacting to and changing with their environment , of which their subordinates are also a part .
23 That is true , I suspect , at every level : a recent survey of the responsibilities of secondary deputies shows a disturbing tendency to use them as administrators , and not as managers at all .
24 The crystallographic results show a good correlation which the modelling results , both for the extreme B I and B II states and for the intermediate transition region , although there is a bigger scatter of ε values in the B II zone than the modelling would suggest .
25 Monthly sonographic controls showed an inconspicuous gall bladder .
26 The equivalent figures for manual workers other than general labourers show a reverse pattern .
27 The subjects hearing occasional words showed a right ear advantage for the vowel-varied stimuli whereas those subjects who heard non-verbal sounds exhibited a left ear superiority for the same stimuli .
28 Preliminary evaluation of the newly available regional geochemical data from stream-sediment samples in the Southern Uplands shows a striking correlation between chemical abundances and the distribution of the discrete lithostratigraphical turbidite formations , the granite plutons and the mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Ballantrae Complex .
29 This scheme is only one example of an increasing number of measures designed to attract women into and back to work as demographic changes show a decreasing number of people entering the workforce .
30 Barnard 's observation that succussed solutions showed a greater viscosity than the equivalent simple dilutions prepared without succussion provides some evidence that homoeopathic potencies do indeed contain long-chain molecules .
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