Example sentences of "show [pron] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blur tussle with ‘ Maggie May ’ and Suede , whose current B-sides show them to be a better band than the extremes of hype surrounding them might have encouraged you to believe , cover ‘ Brass In Pocket ’ . |
| 2 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 3 | The finder of goods is entitled — except only against one who can show himself to be the owner — to legal protection against all the world . |
| 4 | Lam 's stylistic passage through Primitivism , Cubism , and Surrealism show him to be a man of his times . |
| 5 | However , the following two sentences show it to be an expected trait : |
| 6 | The victory ended a run of three successive defeats , and Shell showed himself to be a relatively undemonstrative head coach prepared to listen to the advice of his assistant coaches and players before calling the big plays . |
| 7 | Although the dauphin , Charles , who assumed power in his father 's place , showed himself to be a fine leader and a man of courage , he appeared in the circumstances to have little choice but to negotiate without giving away too much . |
| 8 | Although only fifteen at the time of his father 's death he soon showed himself to be a cunning and unscrupulous politician . |
| 9 | At once Sixsmith showed himself to be a person of some candour . |
| 10 | After a brief phase of unambiguous Atlanticism at the beginning of the Cold War , de Gaulle soon showed himself to be a cold warrior with one eye on the danger of " le protectorat de Washington " . |
| 11 | In his letters to Gundobad , in some of his sermons , and in his versification of the first two books of the Bible , he showed himself to be a reasonable theologian . |
| 12 | Reagan , on the other hand , soon showed himself to be an effective campaigner who projected an attractive and reassuring image on television . |
| 13 | Frank shows himself to be the only ventriloquist to move his lips but not his teeth . |
| 14 | The general opinion around the paddock when I first started in motor racing was that James had early shown himself to be a driver of exceptional reflexes and considerable competitive temperament . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Bradburn has shown himself to be a fine teacher and a popular colleague . ’ |
| 16 | He might for example , have shown himself to be a ‘ little hard-nut ’ . |
| 17 | This advocate of the ‘ intelligent education of the hand and eye ’ had after all shown himself to be a resourceful manufacturer . |
| 18 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has always shown himself to be a listening Minister . |
| 19 | Although unsuccessful in his 1990 Senate and 1991 gubernatorial campaigns , Duke had shown himself to be a skilled politician capable of mobilizing considerable support amongst the white working class . |
| 20 | William Waldegrave , Secretary of State for Health , has shown himself to be no friend of the tobacco industry over the past few weeks . |
| 21 | By introducing tough new health warnings and refusing to give in to the tobacco industry 's demands , Mr Waldegrave has already shown himself to be the most effective Health Minister since Sir George Young 's short tenure . |
| 22 | Above all , in his role as final judge and lawgiver , he had shown himself to be an exponent of definition and codification . |
| 23 | A final point : the assimilation of modal legacy to trust implies that the trust had shown itself to be a more useful , perhaps more flexible legal institution . |
| 24 | It also has certain opportunities , for example the University has already shown itself to be a leading research centre . |
| 25 | Apart from the area around Manchester , ill other regions were experiencing a steep decline in membership by 1935 , and anti-semitism now showed itself to be a viable propaganda vehicle in a particular locality ; from then on it was given special prominence . |
| 26 | In fact , if inspected more closely , it shows itself to be a rickety structure of ad hoc contrivance and ill-founded reductivist moves . |
| 27 | An exception is fellow guest Jamie Lee Curtis who shows herself to be a fervent Soul II Soul fan . |
| 28 | Miss Dors , who has since shown herself to be a capable character actress , remembers her bubble-bathing days as a cushion for male dreams with amused tolerance : |
| 29 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |
| 30 | Peter Conrad 's previous books of critiism ismand autobiography have shown him to be a master of a certain style of brilliant , allusive , penetrating prose . |