Example sentences of "[vb past] show that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Police subsequently announced that documentary evidence captured showed that this attack was part of ETA 's campaign to disrupt the holding of the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The click that followed showed that this caller had n't felt the need to leave careful details of where she might be contacted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , said that research had shown that many people did not make a connection between environmental problems in general and their own wasteful use of energy at home . |
| 7 | Surveys had shown that many consumers mistakenly believed that these had been officially approved . |
| 8 | Consumer research had shown that that concern was allegedly highest in relation to poultry yet sales of that product had continued to boom . |
| 9 | I once heard a very distinguished palaeontologist argue that the base of the Devonian was obviously at one particular level because he had shown that one species of trilobite changed at that horizon into another . |
| 10 | By hybridizing different varieties of peas , Mendel had shown that some characters are inherited as units on an ‘ all or nothing ’ basis — they did not blend together as Darwin and almost everyone else assumed . |
| 11 | He said the survey , which attracted 499 replies , had shown that some people experienced problems getting into Signor Pepi 's Bar . |
| 12 | Sample surveys had shown that most people who go to the theatre tend to be middle-class and well-educated , but since so few people altogether actually go to the serious theatre there must be many middle-class , well-educated people who are not theatre-goers . |
| 13 | But in 1744 Maupertuis had shown that classical trajectories are just these paths of stationary action . |
| 14 | In his theory of general relativity Einstein had showed that gravitational fields made clocks run slow , an effect called the gravitational red-shift . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |