Example sentences of "showing [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots .
2 What the labels fail to reflect are studies showing the same link with fathers who smoke .
3 And if they keep showing the same committment they showed this afternoon , then we 've got a chance . ’
4 [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ .
5 They fought like wounded lions in the next game ; 20 ; 30 years on Swindon are showing the same spirit .
6 By staying away from Crathie Church , Diana is showing the same decency , dignity and consideration that the nation has come to expect from her .
7 Over the decades film editors have built up a classical ‘ syntax ’ of editing , which circumvents the lack of three dimensions by showing the same scene from various viewpoints , rather in the way an observer will watch a conversation by switching his attention from one speaker to the other .
8 Evidence for this is so freely available even within a single language that it may be overlooked ; a random pair of examples from English , one abstract , one " concrete " , would be those in ( 40 ) and ( 41 ) , each showing the same notion present twice but only once in the guise of a noun : ( 40 ) the male ape has amazing strength the male ape is amazingly strong ( 41 ) Steve 's scarf was greasy there was grease on Steve 's scarf The question is not essentially affected by the need to enter certain caveats related to the superficial grammar of the language concerned ; thus in English , unlike for example Russian or Latin , there are relatively few nouns which can instantiate an entity without some article or other determiner playing a supporting part .
9 I 'm sure he 's going to carry on showing the same brand of outstanding leadership he has shown with England for some years . ’
10 McKeever and his co-workers obtained a significant RVF superiority only in dextrals without left handedness in the family , those with sinistral relatives showing the same pattern as left handers , that is non-significant field differences ( McKeever , Gill and Van Deventer , 1975 ; McKeever , Van Deventer and Suberi , 1973 ) .
11 Gedanken noted that they kept pace with each other , both showing the same number .
12 The ideal balance sheet — with both sides showing the same figure at the end — produced the expression ‘ making ends meet , ’ in which ‘ meet ’ is used in its oldest sense of ‘ right and fitting ’ .
13 ( a ) a watch ( showing the same time as the examination room clock ! ) ( b ) a stop-watch capable of registering up to 30 minutes ( c ) several sharpened pencils , both hard and soft ( 2Bs should always be carried and harder ones can be used for more delicate sketching ) ( d ) a bunch of coloured pencils or coloured ball-point pens ( e ) a pencil sharpener ( f ) a pen with which you are familiar and which is comfortable to the hand .
14 So not only is it unwise to try to group patients , in terms of syndromes , it is not even possible to group them in terms of symptoms — that is , even a set of patients all showing the same symptom may not be homogeneous even with respect to that symptom .
15 A crosstabulation of Age by Salary showing the numbers at each age in particular salary bands is possible with a command like : CROSSTAB AGE , SALARY and a graph showing the same information is produced by typing : GRAPH AGE VS SALARY Similarly , modelling systems exist to allow the users to explore the effects of changes on their organisations .
16 If you would prefer to renew your licence starting a new period , rather than have a duplicate or replacement showing the same period as the original licence , you may do so on payment of the full licence fee .
17 One very ambitious painting , of Gordale Scar , challenges recollection of the huge romantic canvas showing the same spot , painted by the early nineteenth-century British Romantic artist James Ward and now in the Tate Gallery .
18 PETER CRANMER , who captained England at rugby and Warwickshire at cricket , is showing the same courage and cheerfulness to ill-health as he displayed during his distinguished sporting career .
19 The large clock over the pawnbroker 's in Albion Street was showing the half hour when Billy spotted the trio alighting from a tram .
20 While the Semiconductor Industry Association is making mollifying noises on the issue of penetration of the Japanese chip market , but the new US administration is showing no such reticence , and US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor says he is ‘ resolute and determined ’ to pry open Japan 's semiconductor market to more US chips — ‘ We have every intention of creating a new framework of shared responsibility with our trading partners , ’ Kantor said in remarks prepared for the Semiconductor Industry Association .
21 Showing no more emotion over the death of the man than that of the beast , she turned her attention once more to tickling Edward 's toes .
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