Example sentences of "[vb -s] show that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 An experiment with guinea pigs has shown that immune reactions can be conditioned in exactly the same way .
2 However , Gershuny 's ( 1983 ) work has shown that married women typically spend more time on housework than their husbands , even if they also have paid employment .
3 Our description of short-term contract working In one of its most traditional forms — seasonal working — has shown that temporary workers can not always be distinguished from regular workers simply by reference to the contract of employment under which they work .
4 Q27 Research has shown that industrial buyers are reluctant to change from an existing regular supplier even if the new supplier can offer a price reduction .
5 Early experience with the fundholding scheme has shown that general practitioners can be effective purchasers of care .
6 One English study showed accident rates of 5–9 year olds 15–20 times higher in residential areas than the 17–59 age group , whilst another has shown that young pedestrians account for 38 per cent of recorded casualties in residential area accidents and young cyclists a further nine per cent .
7 The trade in plutonium between Britain and the US has shown that two countries that proclaim their peaceful intentions as loudly as any are not beyond suspicion and that it is difficult to believe assurances that nuclear power stations have no weapons connection .
8 For seventeenth-century Somerset , J. H. Hamer has shown the influence of White Down fair near Crewkerne , and Christopher Gerrard has shown that two fairs at Taunton held only a few weeks apart had a major influence on the trading of cattle and horses in the West Country .
9 He has shown that certain sections of the population look for immediate , simple satisfactions , while the intellectuals take pride in rejecting kitsch and deny themselves these simple pleasures .
10 This research has shown that certain misconceptions commonly arise which can be very persistent , yet go unnoticed .
11 Little is written about Black women and racist attacks , yet experience has shown that Black women in particular not only bear the brunt of racial violence but also of oppressive policing .
12 Furthermore , research has shown that antitank helicopters are already very cost-effective ; one helicopter should , in battle , be able to destroy 17 times its value in tanks before being shot down .
13 Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first .
14 Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first .
15 Thayer ( 1986 , 1989 ) , for example , has shown that self-report measures of how peppy , active or vigorous a person feels correlate well with a broad range of physiological measures of arousal , usually better than the intercorrelation of such measures with one another .
16 Menzel ( 1973 ) has shown that non-speaking chimpanzees can convey the location of food to one another in a large field enclosure ; Wrangham notes that individual awareness of food resources in the natural environment is acute ; but how much information transfer occurs in the wild remains unknown .
17 However , research has shown that many students first discover Radio 4 when at college without a TV set .
18 Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines .
19 In fact , research in North America and Europe has shown that many buyers never actually use their own timeshare accommodation themselves but do use it for exchange purposes : this kind of owner normally buys a timeshare unit close to his own main residence .
20 Sir Patrick said detailed analysis has shown that 18 settlements were made in cases where alleged assault inside RUC holding centres was a factor .
21 Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to .
22 Research has shown that significant changes in the levels of these particular vitamins can alter those reactions and thereby affect energy and well-being .
23 Our other research has shown that some adults would prefer not to take up a full-time course and so lose the income from a full-time job .
24 But older men and women may be affected too , and evidence has shown that some races are more likely to have it than others .
25 Experience has shown that complicated definitions are necessary if adequate development control is to be achieved , but the same tortuous technique can be used to exclude matters over which control is not necessary .
26 Research has shown that smoking cigarettes may contribute to inadequate breast milk production .
27 Conservative Members would be well advised to heed those words because all the contact that I have had with local government — I am not talking about Labour councillors , but about impartial experts — has shown that those experts believe that the council tax will eventually run into such trouble that it will become unworkable .
28 Mulloney ( 1969 ) has shown that these muscles are activated by a motor neuron in the thorax which in turn is driven by two interneurons in they brain , from which descending paths synapse with the motor neurons in the thorax .
29 DNA diagnosis has shown that these conditions have a larger phenotypic range than previously realised .
30 Experimental work has shown that these factors are not equally important ; the strongest effect is produced by pitch , and length is also a powerful factor .
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