Example sentences of "reveal [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , working women were more independent and less likely to marry early ; and the real significance of this controversy was what it revealed about the ideological assumptions of ruling-class men .
2 Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected .
3 John of Salisbury 's comment that not only the towns but also the fortresses of Gaul feared Henry I of England was revealing of the new situation .
4 Bradman says it was Fingleton , Fingleton said it was Bradman , and Leo O'Brien ( the 12th man ) further confused the issue by revealing in a recent interview with Wisden Cricket Monthly that neither Bradman nor Fingleton was in the room at the time of the exchange , but ( former Australian Test players ) Ryder and Kippax , who were both reporting the matches in one way or another , were . ’
5 At the end of the Old Kingdom in the Pyramid Texts Osiris is revealed as a complex deity who has formed relationships with other important gods and goddesses and who is the subject of a popular myth .
6 LEFT A large feature is revealed as a dark stain in the gravel .
7 Finally , the masculine sounding dedicatee of Mozart 's Piano Concerto No9 , dubbed the Jeunehomme , stands revealed as a certain Mlle Jeunehomme , virtuoso pianist 7.30pm St John 's Smith Sq £5-£11/concs £5 WEDNESDAY11 The Creation Period Orchestra , the Age of Enlightenment : Haydn 's Handelian oratorio 7.30pm QEH £5-£15 THOMAS ALLEN Second recital this week ( after Blackheath on Thursday 5 ) by the vibrant Geordie baritone .
8 If these are stripped out and only payments for new licences and contracts are measured , Japan is revealed as a net exporter of technology in all but two of the years examined .
9 As in the clinical domain , there seems to be a common theme of ‘ psychoticism ’ which nevertheless , in a given individual , will be revealed as a unique blend of several different constituent elements , each of which is continuous with some recognisable symptom pattern found in psychotic illness itself .
10 Sir Christopher Wren sits behind his desk , large as life and at least as natural , until a cloth is draped over the leather bound book concealing the projector , and his head is revealed as a white splodge which takes 80 hours of modelling .
11 In these occasional pieces , he is revealed as a psychological critic whose apparent ability to immerse himself in another poet 's personality comes close to an act of clairvoyance .
12 Robbe-Grillet 's contemporaneous work exhibits similar characteristics : in La Maison de rendez-vous , for example , a ‘ real ’ person turns out to be a dummy , or a narrative sequence is revealed as a theatrical representation or a description of a magazine cover .
13 The Chancellor of the Court was revealed as a secret spy for Naggaroth .
14 At this point , another fine mountain , Ben Hope , is revealed as an imposing pyramid in the southern sky .
15 Clearly the whereabouts of those bottles , and the number of them , had been one of the P'daytabird 's little secrets , for Warnie writes , ‘ Nothing brought home to me the finality of the old life as did the carrying out of those bottles and putting them into [ the ] car — to see the mysteries of that jealously guarded secret room emerge as plain matter of fact bottles , and the cellar stand revealed as an ordinary empty cupboard was an unpleasant feeling . ’
16 Carr commented that ‘ as soon as the attempt is made to apply these supposedly abstract principles to a concrete political situation , they are revealed as the transparent disguises of selfish vested interests . ’
17 Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously .
18 A practical link has thus been revealed between the Hellenistic tradition of mathematical gearing and the medieval Islamic .
19 Although it is obviously hoped that these accounts will be interesting as economic history , whatever they reveal about the working and role of government may also be relevant and applicable today .
20 Chairman Ron Noades will not name the company , who take over from Bukta , but the strip will be revealed during the televised home clash with Arsenal on November 2 .
21 Chairman Ron Noades will not name the company , who take over from Bukta , but the strip will be revealed during the televised home clash with Arsenal on November 2 .
22 It would be easy for Therapy ? to fling back the prison door and let this crazy loose to wreak havoc but , to their credit , they resist this temptation and push your nose even closer to the bars , where the full extent of their character 's madness is revealed through a wiry guitar drone and , especially effective this , a sudden swarm of string arrangement .
23 The decision to allow Mr Onanuga to return to work , revealed after a five-hour private disciplinary hearing at the Thresher HQ in Welwyn Garden City , appears to vindicate him .
24 ( 4 ) Another new agnathan body form was revealed with the recent discovery of pituriaspids from the Middle Devonian of Australia ( Fig. 1 g ) .
25 Details of the main part of the plan , to dispose of 100 000 drums containing 45000 cu.m of waste with ‘ intermediate ’ levels of radioactivity in two dumps , are revealed in a new technical report from the UK Atomic Energy Authority .
26 All , or at least some are presumably revealed in a slender monthly publication .
27 As a member of his Policy Unit , the economist Gavyn Davies , revealed in a private paper for a Fabian Society inquiry in 1980 , Callaghan withdrew effective decision-taking on sensitive market-related issues into a highly secret ‘ economic seminar ’ which was not even given the status of a formal Cabinet committee .
28 His defence came as the Commons Public Accounts Committee decided it would meet on Monday to hold an inquiry into the Guardian 's disclosure of the ‘ sweeteners ’ which were revealed in a confidential memorandum sent to MPs by Mr John Bourn , the Comptroller and Auditor General .
29 The figures were revealed in a major survey which also discovered that just one in 10 homes now consists of the traditional image of mum and dad and two children .
30 The brown hairless face with its flat nose , projecting jaws and large teeth revealed in a friendly smile , is decidedly more human than apelike , though there are definite resemblances to the chimpanzee .
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