Example sentences of "the [noun sg] shows " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upper half of the shield shows kingly lions in the Royal colours gold and red , holding the old crown of Scotland . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've had to move the whole of our office down two floors into the variety shows department . |
| 3 | ‘ But I think I 'll miss the couture shows in July . ’ |
| 4 | Quite a few are waiting to be unveiled at the bike shows this autumn . |
| 5 | ‘ The trial shows that by careful choice and timing of cultivations and herbicide applications it is possible blackgrass control even in areas where the yield-robbing weed is out of control , ’ explains Ciba-Geigy 's Andy Pigott . |
| 6 | But the trial shows the need to look with the utmost care at staff selection procedures . |
| 7 | A tour of the brewery shows little has changed over 150 years and you might just catch a glimpse of the ghost of old John Arkell . |
| 8 | The case shows how failure to resist such re-enactment increases the teacher 's difficulty , as it is detrimental to the help he might otherwise have been able to offer . |
| 9 | Despite a Health Authority report yesterday claiming recent reforms have improved the NHS , watchdogs say the case shows the service is still chronically strapped for cash . |
| 10 | He says the state of the damage shows how fast the car was going when it crashed . |
| 11 | Second , the text shows that it was important to know whether the general clause applied or not . |
| 12 | The very breadth of the field shows the problems inherent in its study . |
| 13 | The referendum shows that , for a while at least , many Russians are willing to bear the pain of transition . |
| 14 | Win or lose , the referendum shows that a majority of Russians want reform to continue , even without him . |
| 15 | The satellite intersections with these three events would have been termed ‘ mantle ’ , ‘ cusp ’ and ‘ cleft ’ in a spatial interpretation , but the radar shows them to be similar events seen at different phases of their evolution . |
| 16 | In the epigram it is ‘ the citadel of Ilium taken ’ , and Pausanias calls it ‘ Troy taken and the departure of the Greeks ’ ; and so the description shows it to have been — not the night of terror but the morning after . |
| 17 | The quality of the build shows that some care has been taken in its assembly — for instance , where at all possible , input and output ports have been mounted on the case rather than taking up usable expansion slot space . |
| 18 | Main picture Timothy and Christine Easton 's Suffolk farmhouse reflected in the moat that surrounds it Inset , previous page Timothy Easton , painter and sculptor Far left The shape of the internal porch in the parlour shows that the room was once panelled . |
| 19 | The police officer will normally accept the information on the insurance certificate at face value and if the certificate shows ‘ comprehensive ’ cover , this automatically includes ‘ third party risks ’ . |
| 20 | The certificate shows that he served for 7 years 71 days as a private ; 2 years 310 days as a corporal ; and 10 years 349 days in the rank of sergeant . |
| 21 | Its latest report on the grant shows 800 projects providing services to 64,000 people , many of them befriending , advocacy , advice , and respite schemes . |
| 22 | Mr Yeo does not rule out further ‘ statutory directions ’ for authorities if the monitoring shows the need . |
| 23 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 24 | The abscissa represents the amount of DNA and the ordinate shows the number of nuclei . |
| 25 | In each case the ordinate shows the relative cleavage at each bond , presented on an arbitrary scale . |
| 26 | In each case the ordinate shows the relative cleavage at each bond , presented on an arbitrary scale . |
| 27 | The chart shows that in total the non-telecom activities made less profit in this half year than last time . |
| 28 | The chart shows the weakness of Japanese banks ' overall BIS ratios even before the Tokyo market began to fall . |
| 29 | As the chart shows , Mr Gorbachev is — or tries to occupy — dead centre on both the democrat-authoritarian and the regionalist-centraliser lines . |
| 30 | While , as the chart shows , the money-centre ones appear in the autumn of 1990 to have touched bottom and to be on the way up again . |