Example sentences of "shown [pn reflx] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he shown himself unambiguously ready to start pulling out , the coalition would have surely had to offer him something , if not to save his face , at least to cover his backside : an American commitment to talk about any Middle Eastern issue whatsoever has already been given ; the call for Iraqi reparations could still be waived . |
| 2 | ‘ Your guest has n't shown himself yet then , ’ Leila said , biting into a breakfast muffin and taking a mouthful of coffee to wash it down . |
| 3 | In the field , William had shown himself both brave and resourceful . |
| 4 | Churchill had shown himself as kaleidoscopic as he was departmentally combative . |
| 5 | The Home Office Drugs Branch has shown itself hopelessly ineffective at quickly and effectively using the Notifications Index to warn and inform local communities about extensive drug use . |
| 6 | But the Met has shown itself increasingly willing to respond to overtures , for example instituting procedures to check criminal records of applicant child-care workers and foster parents for sex offences . |
| 7 | This has shown itself most vividly in the miserable business of Macedonia . |
| 8 | The fragmentation of the Nazi ‘ élite ’ groupings had shown itself plainly in 1924 , and the inner-Party factionalism and opposition in the early 1930s had been countered only through the strength of Hitler 's personal position . |
| 9 | The Welsh Office has shown itself barely capable of handling planning matters referred to it under the appeals system . |
| 10 | Certainly not from Parliament , for Parliament has shown itself perfectly capable , where it wishes to do so , of enacting specific anti-avoidance provisions to deal with specific cases ; and indeed it did subsequently legislate to nullify the fiscal advantages of transactions of the type to which I have referred . |
| 11 | ‘ The Prime Minister has shown herself completely unfit not only to attend any conference on human rights anywhere , but even to utter the very words . ’ |
| 12 | The rats had not shown themselves again , but I 'd begun to feel them watching me from shadowed hiding places . |
| 13 | The commons had shown themselves increasingly adept at procuring political concessions in return for grants of taxes , and although they were at their most effective when they enjoyed the support of at least some sections of the nobility , they had gained substantially in experience and cohesion by the time the crisis of 1340–1 arose . |
| 14 | Peasants had shown themselves fully capable of organizing resistance around their traditional village institutions , and their determination to take over the nobility 's land was their own . |
| 15 | This is fortunate , because in Italy there is a trio of Caravaggio experts who , in the past , have shown themselves only too ready to disagree with one other and anyone else over any potential new addition to the artist 's oeuvre of around one hundred paintings : Mina Gregori , formidable custodian of the Longhi intellectual inheritance ; Ferdinando Bologna and Maurizio Marini . |