Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to show that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think we want to show that comics are an extremely accessible art form , ’ said Jane Warrilow , exhibitions officer at the Cleveland Gallery where Strip Search is till May . |
| 2 | Note ; When we want to show that lines are of equal length , we can put the same mark on each line . |
| 3 | We hope to show that methods are not , and can not be , selected according to the qualities of the data they yield alone . |
| 4 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 5 | He aims to show that concepts which appear to be independent are actually interdependent , so that one can not abandon one and leave the others intact . |