Example sentences of "[adj] show that a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary .
2 Working with a series of transparent resin models in polarized light , Marsh was able to show that a step was just as bad a stress concentrator as the equivalent crack , in fact it might be regarded as half a crack .
3 A Coventry survey of the registered disabled showed that a half or more experienced difficulty with hills , ramps , steps and crowds , a third with crossing roads , a fifth with uneven or narrow pavements , and a tenth with kerbs .
4 I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded .
5 If context affects the recognition point of a word , as this result suggests , then it should be possible to show that a context which makes a word very predictable will have a greater effect on fluent restorations than a context which makes a word only fairly predictable .
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