Example sentences of "show the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half-year profits for Sun Alliance show the firm £119 million in the red compared with £191 million in profit at the same time last year . |
| 2 | Last winter 's storm damage pay-outs have battered profits for the big insurance companies , threatening to push up house cover premiums ; half-year profits for Sun Alliance show the firm £190,000,000 in the red , compared with 191,000,000 in profit at the same time last year . |
| 3 | Comparisons between different women 's magazines show the variety of forms of conduct which can be called feminine . |
| 4 | Case studies show the variety of forms innovation takes . |
| 5 | The values in table I are medians , and the quoted statistics clearly show the lack of significant difference . |
| 6 | Show the equipment which will be in use . |
| 7 | Can detective constable come to court , show the jury , hand out to the jury the statement which would stand up in court ? |
| 8 | The original Deeds show the gallery . |
| 9 | WINNERS SHOW THE WAY |
| 10 | The beatitudes of Jesus show the way in which we can experience transforming happiness in our own lives . |
| 11 | Also in the field with Alpha are two much fainter stars , Eta ( 4.7 ) and Epsilon ( 5.2 ) , which show the way to Delta Octantis , the ‘ key ’ to the south celestial pole . |
| 12 | I mention it here because it and Sirius show the way to the open cluster M50 in Monoceros . |
| 13 | Pavo , the second of the Southern Birds , is not so distinctive as Grus , but it is not hard to find , because Alpha Centauri and Alpha Trianguli Australe show the way to its brightest star , Alpha , which is bluish-white and is of magnitude 1.9 . |
| 14 | The only star above the fourth magnitude is Alpha ( 3.8 ) , but the triangle formed by Alpha , Beta ( 4.2 ) and Delta ( 4.7 ) is not hard to locate , because Lambda and 12 Aquilæ show the way to it . |
| 15 | Their theme , as given in the conference invitation , was : ‘ Can some modern nation show the way to a change that goes deep enough to deal with hate and fear and greed ? |
| 16 | The comedy in ‘ Hamlet ’ comes mainly from the scenes involving Hamlet 's mockery of the foolish Polonius ; and the gravediggers in Act V , Scene I. These scenes do indeed provide comic relief for the audience ; but they also show the way in which Hamlet vents his feelings ( Polonius ) and the fragility of life ( Gravediggers ) . |
| 17 | The circle and the square show the way in which the phenomenological and the personal aspects of understanding relate . |
| 18 | ‘ I think big clubs will always have to compete to stay at the top and these prices show the way the transfer market has gone . |
| 19 | Finally , the plaintiffs contended , the documents referred to in the sub-paragraphs of the order which Wright J. set aside are clearly documents which show the state of the trust and therefore are trust documents . |
| 20 | When we draw a picture of a planet 's orbit we show the Sun , of course , and a single line around it in the shape of an ellipse . |
| 21 | By practising the skill we show the subconscious what is involved and allow it to acquire the ability to master the skill . |
| 22 | Some earlier drawings show the panel as considerably less complete than it is now , suggesting that pieces were added in the eighteenth century , as was the common practice with fragmentary works . |
| 23 | ‘ I just show the prisoners a picture of an aborted baby and I say to them if I had done that to a baby I deserve to be here , but what I am trying to do is prevent it happening . ’ |
| 24 | The unbroken curves show the improvements due to loading files with asymmetries in access frequency of 60/40 , 70/30 , 80/20 , 90/10 and , for single-record buckets , 99/5 . |
| 25 | The 2,800 election notices from Pompeii , hand-painted in red on house walls , show the system at work ( fine example in the London ‘ Rediscovering Pompeii ’ exhibition ) . |
| 26 | The scenes on the British vessels mainly show the birds in the background of the hero holding his bow . |
| 27 | Metal gauges then show the woodworkers the exact profile of the neck at the first and twelfth frets . |
| 28 | These fields , in which there has been a growing attempt to eradicate sex inequality , still show the persistence of women 's domestic commitments as a barrier to equality . |
| 29 | But satellite pictures received by the weather centre at the Falklands military base now show the iceberg moving straight towards the Falklands . |
| 30 | Tests show the Harwell system is nearly twice as efficient as conventional methods at obtaining Factor 8 . |