Example sentences of "show up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a situation , the colours show up to the best advantage , and the angling of the light helps to ‘ model ’ the detail and separate the planes to increase the illusion of depth . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean if he does n't show up at the right time the opportunity wo n't occur again ? ’ |
| 3 | I would have tried to ask Dudley Wood , secretary to the RFU , but he did n't show up at the new kit 's launch … |
| 4 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 5 | This would show up in the sedimentary and stratigraphic evidence . |
| 6 | I was hoping that Vecchi would show up in the near future and save everybody a lot of headaches . |
| 7 | Now that Rune had taken charge of the whole operation , bringing in ‘ back-up ’ troops , her own futile efforts were being shown up for the amateur plan they were ! |
| 8 | If they are right , this spares them the refusal which would have otherwise shown up in the main survey as reported difficulty in getting credit . |
| 9 | The co-ordinator , Thijs Kuiken , said that the inadequacy of present knowledge had been shown up by the 1989 viral epidemic which killed thousands of seals . |
| 10 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 11 | Well , she thought , replacing the receiver , unless her ‘ friend ’ showed up within the next half an hour she would come to find an empty room . |
| 12 | That alienation of the German Bohemians showed up in the 1935 elections when Konrad Henlein 's pro-Nazi Sudetendeutsche Partei became the second largest parliamentary party . |
| 13 | Jukeboxes as we know them today first showed up in the 1940s . |
| 14 | The contrast shows up in the different notions of ‘ social capacity ’ . |
| 15 | " Ham " acting shows up in the slightest twitch of an eyebrow . |
| 16 | This is supported by reference to three key features ( p. 114ff. ) , summarised below : Alternating decasyllabic verse is " lighter " in terms of its overall structure ; this shows up in the high degree of promotion of underlyingly unstressed function words to relative stressed status . |
| 17 | The gaps between the walls of the coral skeleton have been filled with calcite , showing up as the lighter colours of the sections . |
| 18 | On the pasture near-by Hazel could see scattered , russet-and-orange-coloured fragments , some with feathery , light-green foliage showing up against the darker grass . |
| 19 | Amounts of toxic gases in our cities have already reached unacceptable levels and this is showing up in the big increases in respiratory illnesses . |