Example sentences of "shown [pn reflx] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has shown itself all at once , she can not remain at home for very much longer . ’ |
| 2 | The common instinct for survival has shown itself more powerful than the urge to take risks on behalf of national interest . |
| 3 | Indeed , although the SLA is composed overwhelmingly of qualified teachers , it seems to some to have shown itself less aware of the pressures of educational change than the Library Association , with its royal charter to oversee the interests of libraries of all kinds . |
| 4 | Over here , it 's MCA who have shown themselves more than keen to clutch them to the corporate breast , and have consequently raised the stakes uncomfortably high for a band who readily confess to their ignorance of this caper 's day-by-day dealings . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , in the last decades is that literary studies , perhaps especially classical studies , which may seem to be at the other extreme of the academic spectrum from the sciences , have shown themselves more self confident in the use of computers than history has done , even though history is closer to the social sciences which have for long been acclimatized to quantification and computerization . |