Example sentences of "shows [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A small sherd also from Verulamium ( Ver.A.Bd.1 ) shows only a leg but the trails of the lion skin identify it as Hercules ( fig. 14.37 ) .
2 With the spring shows only a couple of months away , it would be impossible for me to appoint a replacement who could get a collection ready in time . ’
3 The best parts run as separate units : the Fox network , for instance , shows only a handful of 20th Century Fox shows .
4 Figure 4.1 shows only a difference according to sex of speaker , but as this is quite consistent between generations , it has another quality : it is also a stable variable .
5 Figure 4.1 shows only the stock of existing assets .
6 Jan Needle 's story shows inexorably the workings of a system in which power could corrupt .
7 You can collapse the outline so that it shows just the titles of each slide or expand it so that you see the text of bullet charts .
8 The use in the emperor 's reply of the expression verba precaria is revealing , for it shows already a tendency to treat precatory words as characteristic of trusts , as something which sets them apart from the dispositions of the civil law .
9 The Second Fairy brings Grace and dances slightly faster in such a way that she shows off the lines of her body as it faces forwards and then backwards ( the traditional gesture ) .
10 In New York , the visitor is drawn time and time again to the Frick Collection , where the opulent yet relaxed setting shows off the objects so much more sympathetically than the Disneyland-style ‘ period rooms ’ across the other side of Fifth Avenue .
11 A thin , plain , uncoloured glass best shows off the colour and richness of the wine .
12 Using this phenomenon I evolved a design that appeals to my sense of aesthetics , based on simple sections of a hollow sphere , and shows off the grain of the wood to best advantage .
13 YOUNG artist Christopher Kerwin shows off the picture and cup he collected after winning the over-14s section of Darlington Lions Club annual art competition .
14 ( Figure 21.15 shows also the distribution of the intermittency factor and it is evident that intermittency is affecting the intensity distributions only at larger values of . )
15 This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument .
16 well suited or well fitted with the , with the stuff that , you know , you 've , you 've got erm I mean that 's probably the best way to do it and I also find actually trying to write things sh myself shows up the holes in arguments , shows up the bits that you need yet to fill in sort of thing
17 The low intensity of these rural idylls shows up the problems created by the failure of the commercially-minded companies to generate anything other than fusty , studio-bound melodramas , as unsuccessful in their way as the airy , de-sensationalized productions of their more creative competitors .
18 ‘ It shows up the differences . ’
19 Flavia said , ‘ Your head seen against the white wall , it shows up the structure , I know now whom you remind me of , I saw it when I first met you , but could not place it , it 's not a literal resemblance , it 's something basic , you do look like someone I know . ’
20 Rhyolites are pale grey or buff-coloured rocks with a micro-crystalline structure and a rather distinctive sugary texture or ‘ feel ’ — like obsidian , they usually have a well-developed banding running through them , which shows up the flow folds in the lava plainly .
21 well suited or well fitted with the , with the stuff that , you know , you 've , you 've got erm I mean that 's probably the best way to do it and I also find actually trying to write things sh myself shows up the holes in arguments , shows up the bits that you need yet to fill in sort of thing
22 Choate shows up the hypocrisy of former Administration members who oppose the Japanese publicly but take large fees for acting for them behind the scenes .
23 If you have the sort of hairstyle that shows up the root regrowth within three weeks , necessitating retouching with either bleach or colourant , consider a restyle .
24 This , unfortunately , shows up the flaw in an otherwise excellent gearbox .
25 A plan like this not only shows up the priority areas and assists a sensible organisation of the workload ; it also shows where effort should be concentrated and helps in the measurement of success .
26 The small study of children developing reading reported by Kyle ( 1981b ) confirms the general view , but shows up the gap between vocabulary development , where progress is made throughout schooling , and sentence comprehension , where deaf children frequently reach a plateau at about the 8-year-old level .
27 In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys .
28 This shows up the reason for this tough line which , unfortunately , is no longer the stance that the Court of Appeal now unequivocally adopts .
29 The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality .
30 The figure shows the nature of expenditure ( hospital running costs , capital expenditure , general practice expenditure ) and shows clearly the split which currently exists between the Hospital and Community Health Services ( on the left of the figure ) and the Family Practitioner Services ( on the right ) .
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