Example sentences of "show that these [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | China was so remote from Europe that when silk first became available for the wealthier classes in Imperial Rome no one knew where it came from , but the fact that it reached Rome shows that these two civilizations were not totally devoid of contact with each other . |
| 2 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 3 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 4 | It is easy to show that these two steps combine to give the required result . |
| 5 | Hib-E scholars have apparently always been quite happy to accept that the meat/mate merger is a true merger ( see citations in J. Milroy and Harris , 1980 : 200 ) , and Bliss ( 1979 : 208–10 ) cites evidence to show that these two classes had merged in Hib-E by around 1700 . |
| 6 | I shall try to show that these three frames of reference are complementary rather than self-sufficient or mutually exclusive . |