Example sentences of "[verb] to show that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was then involved in civil defence and he took me to see a trial designed to show that air-raid shelters built to government specifications were death-traps . |
| 2 | While accepting that there may be cross-subsidy within the AOC charges scheme ( figures for 1990/91 appear to show that 32 operators of aircraft weighing over fifteen tonnes accounted for 59 per cent of CAA regulatory effort but provided 96.12 per cent of AOC income ) , GAMTA says : ‘ In that financial year the cost of running the AOC Charge Scheme was £21 million . |
| 3 | For example , his work on the death instincts in Beyond the Pleasure Principle is based on the assumption that he needs to show that all organisms , including mankind , aim to return to a tensionless state of inorganic matter . |
| 4 | So , as they had done with the relations of production , Marx and Engels tried to show that this state of affairs was not inevitable , but the product of a specific historical development . |
| 5 | Erm authorities are expected to show that environmental concerns have been comprehensively and consistently taken into adv erm account in their plans . |
| 6 | Classical elite theorists had sought to show that liberal democracy was a utopian ideal incapable of realization . |
| 7 | In this chapter , I hope to show that these distinctions are important and not merely a play on words . |
| 8 | Initially , the main aim of this research was to demonstrate the inaccuracy of Chomsky 's characterization of the input as " random and degenerate " but , more recently , attempts have been made to show that particular features of this register actually facilitate the learner 's task . |
| 9 | History , indeed , tends to show that public intervention can have the effect of reinforcing rather than curbing market excesses . |
| 10 | Morgan , MacDonald and Hilgard ( 1974 ) , for instance , have related hypnosis to mediation by the right hemisphere and Cohen , Rosen and Goldstein ( 1976 ) claimed to show that sexual orgasm in humans is associated with increased amplitude of the wave form over the right but not the left hemisphere . |
| 11 | Similarly , as you rework the question into your first sentence you can begin to show that key terms in the question are problematic or vague , or you can suggest what kind of evidence you will draw on to discuss the question . |
| 12 | Once a module has been copied to the hard copy volume , the Location file is updated to show that hard copy is ‘ in progress ’ . |
| 13 | She describes them , for example , as ‘ infantilised ’ ; she accepts without question research which purported to show that most women despised each other ( Millett , 1977 , p. 55 ) ; she sees women as having little ‘ self-respect ’ , and as devoting almost all their time and attention to pleasing and flattering men . |
| 14 | This section has attempted to show that more research is needed into the make-up of multiple estates in the earliest periods for which documents exist . |
| 15 | A complainant would have to show that fewer women than men could comply with such a requirement and that it is to her detriment that she can not comply . |
| 16 | John Thorne of Macintyre says the organisation has always tried to show that disabled people may not be capable of some everyday things , but they can usually show their skills and creativity in other ways . |
| 17 | Inside , little remains to show that this chamber was used for summoning Elementals . |
| 18 | And one of the reasons why the black women in Liverpool put this exhibition together erm and they tried to pick out different kinds of jobs that women had to show that black women could do those jobs , and they were saying look , there 's lots of stereotypes erm about the kinds of jobs that black and Asian women can do that fit in with their personalities , and you know the world is wide open and you are able to do this and you do n't have to be erm a singer or a model or erm or erm erm a runner , you know , the whole stereotypes in terms of what black people are good at and they 're saying let's break away from this , let's show the kinds of things that we can do and we can do anything that we set our minds to and erm the exhibition is very positive , actually . |
| 19 | The geneticist R. C. Punnett countered Poulton 's arguments by trying to show that single mutations could produce the colours attributed to mimicry . |
| 20 | The various experiments taking place at the present time in the use of graded tests ( for example in the Borough of Croydon ) tend to show that this form of examination would , in all kinds of ways , be preferable to the system we have . |
| 21 | He sought to show that legal conceptions are the product of historical development ; but in particular he indicated how law functions as a framework within which we move . |
| 22 | It took as its theme part of the statement made by the Labour and Socialist International with regard to national United Fronts : Past experience goes to show that such negotiations in individual countries may unfortunately only too easily be turned into manoeuvres by the Communists , with the result that they help to poison the situation and increase the mistrust in the Labour Movement instead of diminishing it . |
| 23 | I suppose this just goes to show that all treatment currently in use have some benefit but no one treatment is significantly better than all the others . |
| 24 | All of which goes to show that masculine reason and logic are perhaps not so strong as you may have supposed . |
| 25 | The appeal was not very successful and was condemned by many prominent townspeople , but that it could have been launched at all goes to show that old traditions die hard in the West Country ! |
| 26 | Which current Conservative cabinet minister was reputed to have said of John Stonehouse 's faked suicide , ‘ This goes to show that old politicians never die , they simply wade away ’ ? |
| 27 | Such a very fine performance goes to show that some skills are not redundant . |
| 28 | Such research has purported to show that abusing parents are more likely to have , for example , personality problems ( Loss and Glancy , 1983 ; Kokkevi and Agathonos , 1987 ) , low IQ ( Oliver , 1977 ) and have been the victims of abuse themselves ( Kempe and Kempe , 1978 ) . |
| 29 | You only have to show that this act works for there to be takers everywhere . |