Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] show [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And as Brigitte Bardot has shown recently , even the glow of a new love affair can work wonders .
2 I do n't see why I should be made to feel embarrassed just because your bloody sister wants to show off with her new sewing machine . ’
3 While the role of small firms should not be discounted , recent work at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex has shown just how many significant innovations have come out of large companies .
4 The point may be stressed , for experience has shown how important it is to have these volumes always on hand for cross-referencing with later works , or providing new ideas for lines of investigation .
5 With an outsole , when the midsole starts to show through , it 's time to change it .
6 Kelly has shown recently that correct calculations about the shearing strength of solids are rather complicated and that there is a good deal of variation between the theoretical shear strengths of various substances .
7 But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes .
8 Barbara Taylor has shown how women within the Owenite socialist movement in the 1830s and 1840s had struggled to advance a feminist politics through the language of radical religion .
9 At least one well-documented zodiac has now been claimed by its author to be a conscious fabrication , and the astrologer John Addey has shown how easy it is to ascribe the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac to places chosen at random , in his humorous example of the Cheam Zodiac .
10 It has practical significance , because much of the work within the programme has shown how the total curriculum experience — of which teaching methods are a part — affects the strategies which students adopt .
11 Oliver Rackham has shown how complex traditional woodland management was , in contrast to modern forestry , in that a self-generating system was employed so that the resources of wood and timber were infinitely renewable and two types of ‘ crop ’ were taken .
12 Apart from a few individuals the hill sheep industry has shown remarkably little concern or demonstrated any important initiative in tackling this problem .
13 In his cycle for Unicorn-Kanchana , Peter Hill has shown how effective a softer palette can be in such pieces .
14 Panamanian opposition leaders say that the coup attempt has shown how General Noriega 's own supporters are abandoning him .
15 The previous chapter has shown how conflict arises between those passing through a street and those living on it .
16 A survey in Eastern Baltimore has shown how changing lifestyles are increasing the risk of mental disorder .
17 Research has shown clearly that a ‘ modern ’ pattern of crime control developed in Western Europe and North America in the nineteenth century .
18 Recent research has shown up a link between girls who have suffered from some ( often seemingly unimportant or minor ) kind of sexual abuse and those who later go on to develop eating problems .
19 Other research has shown how evaluations of ‘ good ’ policing vary with types of police practice , with the different ‘ types ’ of policemen conceptualizing competent practice in contrasting ways ( Muir 1977 ; Reiner 1978 ; for a review of the numerous typologies of policemen that exist in the sociology of policing see Reiner 1985 : 104–6 ) .
20 Every organization has these unofficial groups , and research has shown how important they are for organizational effectiveness .
21 Recent research has shown how glaciers may be affected by periodic surges in which ice may be transmitted down-glacier at speeds 10–100 times faster than normal and this has been identified from small glaciers and also from some ice sheets on a continental or subcontinental scale ( Sugden and John , 1976 ) .
22 Research has shown there are 1,200 vice girls in Birmingham — some only 14 years old .
23 Research has shown recently that erm a life event , such as you described can precipitate depression in someone who 's self esteem is low and I think this is where we women are more vulnerable .
24 The second specialised study aims to show how labour market experience affects and is affected by social relations within the household .
25 The research aims to show how the requirements of mass social and economic mobilisation associated with the Five Year Plan and the epoch of socialist construction made the need for political control more urgent .
26 It 's a curious thing , having a radio programme on television , but this Radio 4 joint production with BBC1 has shown how neatly it can work in the right hands .
27 Moreover , recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic ( every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather ) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic .
28 As has been mentioned in this Report , recent research on the relationship of psychology and spirituality has shown how different personality types have different needs and preferences .
29 Peter Reynolds has shown how much woodland was needed to provide fuel and building materials continually for an Iron Age farmstead of c.300 BC in southern England — some 8 hectares ( 20 acres ) ( out of 52 hectares [ 130 acres ] ) .
30 The council has shown consistently that it is an accountable and efficient local authority that should be allowed to continue and develop its services , ’ added Mr Sanderson when he presented the council 's response to reorganisation .
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