Example sentences of "[prep] show how the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter has the practical purpose of showing how the apparatus of linguistic description can be used in analysing the style of a prose text . |
| 2 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 3 | Anthropology has been prominent in showing how the marginal in any society tends to pose problems for state institutions and governments ; and the insider must anticipate that his conclusions might well be |
| 4 | The focus on timetabling also adds a different dimension to the concept of reciprocity in family responsibilities , in showing how the nature of the calculations which individuals must make itself changes over time . |
| 5 | Its unique strength is in showing how the ‘ new' technologies follow on from ‘ old' ones . |
| 6 | Working with Edward Herman , a business school professor , he 's especially good on showing how the companies create acceptable experts when ordinary ones — simple academics who 've spent lifetimes studying some area — ca n't be trusted not to point out inconvenient facts . |
| 7 | This has supposed that feminist effort should be devoted , first , to showing how the ‘ images ’ in question oppress or denigrate women , and second , to offering positive images of women to replace these . |
| 8 | I think that people do n't want to see any more constitutional changes , but there are many more changes in the culture , in the way the Party operates at local , regional , and national level , which we will be addressing , but what we 're not going to have is more constitutional changes , because people feel that we 've made changes , we have moved the Party forward , we 're clear the direction we 're going in , and now the Party at all levels wants to address itself not only to building our membership , but also to showing how the policies we 've got meet the changed world outside . |
| 9 | Which category a given term belongs to , this can be shown by explicating its internal grammar , i.e. by showing how the term in question can be appropriately used in a sentential context . |
| 10 | When displayed in the great cities of the east , and in the capitals of Europe , the larger dinosaurs seemed to confirm the superiority of modern industrial society by showing how the world had been conquered both in space and time . |
| 11 | On this view , theories are deductive systems of thought in which " facts " are deduced from higher order principles , much like geometricians effect a proof by showing how the conclusion logically follows from one or two general premises or postulates . |