Example sentences of "be [verb] show that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference in attitudes toward welfare between the USA and Europe has been highlighted to show that trends toward contraction of municipal housing and urban programmes , when coupled with the process of deinstitutionalization , make it more likely that hospital leavers will be marginalized in a competitive environment . |
| 2 | Although nitrate pollution of the Broads is well known , recent studies are reported to show that streams in areas such as the Cotswolds are now equally polluted . |
| 3 | Eye movement studies have also been used to show that humans employ syntactic information when reading . |
| 4 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 5 | In twelfth-century legend St Valerie was the martyr ( J saint who personified Aquitaine and her story as told at Limoges — where she had lived and died and where her " thousand-year-old " body was still preserved was intended to show that Limoges was a more venerable city than Poitiers . |
| 6 | A good deal of evidence was produced to show that children tend to conform to their teachers ' expectations of them . |
| 7 | Far from showing that teachers are very experienced predictors of how children will perform , this was taken to show that children will do , more or less , what is expected of them , whatever that may be . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for the newspaper , that party did not have many wealthy benefactors , and evidence was admitted to show that others immediately made the connection . |