Example sentences of "showing [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cells beneath this layer appear healthy , showing little evidence of cell death ( Fig. 2 d , e ) . |
| 2 | They would tend to withdraw from their surroundings , showing little interest in those around them and making few demands upon them . |
| 3 | After at first showing little interest in the work , museum authorities informed the owners of ‘ Les villas a Bordighera ’ in May 1992 that it could no longer leave the country . |
| 4 | ‘ Indeed ? ’ said Troy , showing little interest . |
| 5 | The one at lowest energy shows a progression in an increased O-O stretching frequency , showing that ionization has occurred from an anti-bonding orbital . |
| 6 | In the same year the Swiss scholar , J. J. Bachofen , published Das Mutterrecht , ( Mother Right ) , a book showing that matriliny , the tracing of descent through women , and matriarchy , the dominance of women in society , as well as the cult of female goddesses , preceded the patriarchy and the patriliny we find in Biblical and Classical societies . |
| 7 | The following passage from the judgment of Atkin L.J. , at p. 887 , was relied upon by Mr. Gardiner as showing that recoverability was not dependent upon any measure of compulsion : |
| 8 | Tanturi and Ivy provided the first convincing evidence for the choleretic action of the vagus by showing that stimulation of the distal end of the divided vagus caused increased secretion of bile . |
| 9 | They interpreted this finding as showing that associability lost by the stimulus during the first stage of training could outweigh the transfer deriving from the fact that both stage of the study involved inhibitory learning . |
| 10 | The Sainsbury Book of Children 's Cookery [ in most branches at £3.45 ] is written by Roz Denny and Caroline Waldegrave and teaches children basic cookery skills , while showing that cooking can be fun . |
| 11 | After all , the continuity between man and animal can as well be achieved by showing that man is a machine as by ascribing intentions to animals . |
| 12 | Some of the herbs listed are found in most countries — often taken by mankind as they migrated all over the world , showing that man considered them as important . |
| 13 | Pictures of Lily showing that bit of bloodied rag , of Lily 's face as she launched her attack on Rose , came into her mind . |
| 14 | One was that people were not really making much progress toward showing that supergravity was finite or that it could explain the kinds of particles that we observe . |
| 15 | The orientation of the combs can be changed , however , by applying an artificial magnetic field , showing that magnetism is an important cue . |
| 16 | The commission cited alarming studies showing that ozone was disappearing in winter over densely populated areas of Europe and north America . |
| 17 | Such a mechanism is indirectly supported by human studies showing that cholecystokinin , a hormone with antagonistic properties to somatostatin on the sphincter of Oddi , increases bile flow into the duodenum . |
| 18 | In the circumstances factory gate prices , which could be interpreted as showing that demand had hardly relaxed , and input prices which underlined the inflationary danger posed by a weaker pound deepened the gloom Yet it was mainly the timing , not the policy , which was to blame . |
| 19 | Gerald Vaughan , the health minister , simply reiterated in October 1981 that there is no clear evidence to link unemployment and ill health , and summarised the results of a DHSS study as showing that unemployment has different effects on different families ( to the chagrin of the researcher involved , who argued that his findings showed that the unemployed were more likely to suffer from physical , and psychological , ill health , unless they worked in hazardous occupations . |
| 20 | At the end of the tax year , you must complete an End-of-Year Return ( P14 ) for each employee showing that employee 's details and the total NI contribution and tax paid . |
| 21 | Gerbner recognised this ‘ transactional ’ method of communication , showing that meaning depends on the assumptions of the receiver and the context of the transmission . |
| 22 | Erm if they can keep putting that kind of performance on and showing that sort of commitment then we 'd be all right . |
| 23 | In the seventeenth century , Mersenne undertook a systematic experimental inquiry , showing that pitch depended on frequency of vibration , which in turn was determined by the length , tension , and thickness of the string . |
| 24 | Bouton and King ( 1983 ) interpret their results as showing that context-specificity will be evident only when there is some ambiguity about the CS that the contextual cues help to resolve . |
| 25 | We hope to reassure the latter by showing that quantification is a less essential part of stylistics than this definition suggests . |
| 26 | It seems that this passage led Barnett J. ( and indeed the Court of Appeal ) to conclude that the district judge should have approached the inquiry on the footing that ( i ) the burden of showing that the continuance of the prosecution would be a misuse of the process of the court rested upon the applicant , but ( ii ) this burden could prima facie be discharged by demonstrating an inexcusably long delay , unless the prosecution could in turn discharge the burden of showing that prejudice did not in fact follow from the delay . |
| 27 | By the end of 1922 the figure had jumped to a remarkable 155 , showing that recovery was on the way and economic activity increasing . |
| 28 | And testing meant simply showing each bird the bead again for a fixed period of time — perhaps ten seconds — and noting its response . |
| 29 | For now you are sitting ( safely ) side by side — the open , confrontational , face-to-face position is for later — showing each other three-quarter profile . |
| 30 | When Drummle stupidly said that he was stronger than any of us , we all protested , foolishly showing each other our muscles to prove how strong we were . |