Example sentences of "showing [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so far , against Timman , he has unusually restrained and conventional , showing little of his usual creativity . |
| 2 | They would tend to withdraw from their surroundings , showing little interest in those around them and making few demands upon them . |
| 3 | After at first showing little interest in the work , museum authorities informed the owners of ‘ Les villas a Bordighera ’ in May 1992 that it could no longer leave the country . |
| 4 | Cells beneath this layer appear healthy , showing little evidence of cell death ( Fig. 2 d , e ) . |
| 5 | Though neither the interactionists nor Foucault make much of the point ( the first leaning towards an essentialist view of gender , the latter showing little theoretical interest in the issue ) , this also points to the importance of categorisation along lines of gender ; the construction , in other words , of categories of masculinity and femininity , building on obvious biological differences , but reinforcing these through ideology and various social practices . |
| 6 | ‘ Indeed ? ’ said Troy , showing little interest . |
| 7 | The marbles are still rich and some of the mosaics are visible , but in general the colour is disappointingly dark and dull , showing little of the brilliance it once had . |
| 8 | Just then one of Father 's secretaries , who was standing right behind me , said , ‘ Such purity of line , do you notice , even when she 's only showing that sweet child how to curtsy . ’ |
| 9 | In the circumstances factory gate prices , which could be interpreted as showing that demand had hardly relaxed , and input prices which underlined the inflationary danger posed by a weaker pound deepened the gloom Yet it was mainly the timing , not the policy , which was to blame . |
| 10 | At the end of the tax year , you must complete an End-of-Year Return ( P14 ) for each employee showing that employee 's details and the total NI contribution and tax paid . |
| 11 | By the end of 1922 the figure had jumped to a remarkable 155 , showing that recovery was on the way and economic activity increasing . |
| 12 | In the same year the Swiss scholar , J. J. Bachofen , published Das Mutterrecht , ( Mother Right ) , a book showing that matriliny , the tracing of descent through women , and matriarchy , the dominance of women in society , as well as the cult of female goddesses , preceded the patriarchy and the patriliny we find in Biblical and Classical societies . |
| 13 | It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that . |
| 14 | After all , the continuity between man and animal can as well be achieved by showing that man is a machine as by ascribing intentions to animals . |
| 15 | They interpreted this finding as showing that associability lost by the stimulus during the first stage of training could outweigh the transfer deriving from the fact that both stage of the study involved inhibitory learning . |
| 16 | Bouton and King ( 1983 ) interpret their results as showing that context-specificity will be evident only when there is some ambiguity about the CS that the contextual cues help to resolve . |
| 17 | Peculiars are by definition uncommon but they are worth searching for and if present in a case would strongly favour any remedies showing that same symptom . |
| 18 | Gerald Vaughan , the health minister , simply reiterated in October 1981 that there is no clear evidence to link unemployment and ill health , and summarised the results of a DHSS study as showing that unemployment has different effects on different families ( to the chagrin of the researcher involved , who argued that his findings showed that the unemployed were more likely to suffer from physical , and psychological , ill health , unless they worked in hazardous occupations . |
| 19 | CHOSEN Heritage , the pre-planned funeral specialists , have commissioned a comprehensive survey of funeral prices , showing that last year the amount spent on funerals increased by more than twice the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | Some of the herbs listed are found in most countries — often taken by mankind as they migrated all over the world , showing that man considered them as important . |
| 21 | But one problem about showing that is that Dennett has opted ( perhaps unnecessarily for his argument ) for a flow-chart explication , which is inherently a static rather than a process one . |
| 22 | Mr Patten had been shaken by a ( to him ) unexpected decision by the courts not to declare the teachers ' action illegal , and by an NOP opinion poll showing that parents back the boycott . |
| 23 | Our results are consistent with previous studies in T-cell-deficient nude mice suggesting that class II + epithelial cells play a crucial role in T-cell development and with an earlier report showing that fetal day-12 thymic anlage stripped of their mesenchymal capsule fail to support lymphocyte development . |
| 24 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 25 | In the seventeenth century , Mersenne undertook a systematic experimental inquiry , showing that pitch depended on frequency of vibration , which in turn was determined by the length , tension , and thickness of the string . |
| 26 | We hope to reassure the latter by showing that quantification is a less essential part of stylistics than this definition suggests . |
| 27 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 28 | It seems that this passage led Barnett J. ( and indeed the Court of Appeal ) to conclude that the district judge should have approached the inquiry on the footing that ( i ) the burden of showing that the continuance of the prosecution would be a misuse of the process of the court rested upon the applicant , but ( ii ) this burden could prima facie be discharged by demonstrating an inexcusably long delay , unless the prosecution could in turn discharge the burden of showing that prejudice did not in fact follow from the delay . |
| 29 | The following passage from the judgment of Atkin L.J. , at p. 887 , was relied upon by Mr. Gardiner as showing that recoverability was not dependent upon any measure of compulsion : |
| 30 | The orientation of the combs can be changed , however , by applying an artificial magnetic field , showing that magnetism is an important cue . |