Example sentences of "showing [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | What I shall do now is try to back up this last statement by sketching some of the characteristics of childish thought , showing how they can be explained in constructivist terms . |
| 3 | The above examples are only a few of those showing how conventional ports de bras can be changed . |
| 4 | There 'll be demonstrations by the Metropolitan Police and Royal Army Veterinary Corps , showing how the military use dogs in their work . |
| 5 | Scholes provides a useful table , divided into three columns , showing how linguists and philosophers have agreed in making a tripartite division between signifier , signified , and reference , though they present it in a variety of terminologies . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The society argues , however , that the announcement of the Bill itself is a success , showing how ‘ pro-lifers ’ have forced the Government to resolve the issue both on embryo research and abortion . |
| 8 | Hood paints the two , irresistibly , as bombastic old sticks , but the play 's real strength is its exploration of relationships , showing how Flamsteed 's wife and maid navigate male ego-infested waters . |
| 9 | And at one point , showing how the books were formed into the New Testament by the early Church , the report expressed the belief that God gave the early Church its three gifts of ordering of the New Testament , creeds like the apostles ' creed , and the ministry of bishops in their succession from the apostles . |
| 10 | In this case , the agent only needs to see a ticket manifest ( a government-stamped document showing how many tickets are printed for the venue ) and a box office statement from the hall ( stating how many tickets were sold ) when checking the promoter 's expenses . |
| 11 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 12 | The Force welcomes visitors , because its primary role is deterrent , and the Force can best fulfil its mission by showing how effectively a multinational , integrated force can operate in isolated locations on the flanks of Europe . |
| 13 | And it 's significant that a strand of films showing how a group of individuals from different social backgrounds could be brought together by war and learn to forget their divisions , generally regarded as the supreme achievement of wartime ‘ realism ’ , was anticipated in Powell-Pressburger's One of our Aircraft is Missing ( 1941 ) , in which a bomber crew bales out over Holland and works its way home with help from the Dutch resistance . |
| 14 | Evidence has been uncovered showing how Britain played a leading role in preventing hundreds of Italian war criminals standing trial . |
| 15 | DETAILED evidence has been uncovered showing how Britain played a leading role in preventing hundreds of Italian war criminals standing trial in Yugoslavia , Greece , and Ethiopia at the end of the second world war . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Think back to Mr Altman 's diagram ( chart 6 ) showing how bankruptcy costs affect the value of a firm and its optimal debt capacity . |
| 18 | As well as showing how far flint was traded in prehistoric times in Britain , the analyses have shown that the largest proportion of the flint used to make axeheads was deliberately mined , in many ways like the hard rocks used for axes ( see page 106 ) . |
| 19 | It 's all done up in steel pins and scaffolding to hold it up , and I once saw a computer thing in a museum showing how it shudders when the trains go over . |
| 20 | He noticed that the ink was blacker , showing how each word had been pressed hard on to the paper . |
| 21 | I think this is about our physical boundaries again , as it was in Alison 's story , showing how fragile the self-image of girls can be , how easily invaded by others — and also , how difficult it is to like your body if it is curvaceous , if you are naturally fleshy , fat , large-breasted or pear-shaped , as many of us are . |
| 22 | No flower show is complete without its fruit and vegetables , so there are demonstration plots showing how to grow cabbages , carrots and cucumbers both outside and in the greenhouse . |
| 23 | Echoes of the Sun — a film showing how photosynthesis turns sunlight into energy — will be shown on Imax Solido , which presents three-dimensional images in a wrap-around screen cinema . |
| 24 | After showing how Galloway Lochs had become acidified , Battarbee has now produced similar evidence for 17 Scottish lochs , 5 English and 8 Welsh lakes . |
| 25 | They are supposed to advance our understanding of the concept by showing how authoritative action plays a special role in people 's practical reasoning . |
| 26 | The book is particularly good at showing how diverse medical opinion was . |
| 27 | ‘ Here are some tree diagrams showing how we fit into the conglomerate , and the management structure of the company . |
| 28 | The Farrell scheme has been a vital weapon in the battle , showing how important it is to put forward alternative but practical uses for a threatened site . |
| 29 | Each authority should within a year produce a development plan showing how these changes would be achieved — some laggards took until 1951 . |
| 30 | Epidemiologists have incriminated substances and circumstances , and identified potentially carcinogenic material , such as tobacco smoke and tobacco tar , showing how a substantial burden of cancer could be prevented by avoiding exposure to the sources of carcinogens . |