Example sentences of "be [adj] show that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many experiments have been concerned to show that information from successive sentences is integrated into an organised whole ; and that efficient memory for a discourse depends on such organisation being possible . |
| 2 | Those doctors who have been trained to practise Ayurvedic medicine ( a traditional type of Indian medicine ) have been able to show that foods such as fresh vegetables , rice and pulses produce the clearest and most balanced mental state . |
| 3 | According to the evidence at the trial , only Zaidie bore witness to the defendant 's telephoned confession , but the defence might have promoted a viable theory of conspiracy if they had been able to show that Matadial had also testified to a confession , then resiled from it in her deposition , taken the offensive again in her addendum and finally opted for a female voice in her evidence . |
| 4 | If I understand him aright , it ought to be possible to show that Descartes ' stripping away of the ‘ accidental ’ qualities of objects is illegitimate , because based on a series of elisions of meaning between one use of an expression and another where the two expressions look the same but have different meanings . |
| 5 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 6 | To demonstrate a sensitive period of the type he was proposing , it would be necessary to show that adults who had left a kibbutz at the age of six were not sexually attracted by members of the opposite sex whom they had been reared with while still in the kibbutz . |
| 7 | On the commissioner 's submission the requirement of condition ( 3 ) would be otiose , since it would be sufficient to show that profits were earned by a business carried on in Hong Kong to make them taxable . |
| 8 | Neurologists of the nineteenth century , such as Broca and Dax , were able to show that damage to the brain often leads to very obvious disturbances in various aspects of cognition . |
| 9 | To further characterise the relevance of glycosylation of integrins for their function as cell adhesion receptors we performed initial experiments to analyse the integrin mediated cell matrix interation in HT-29 cells , and were able to show that inhibition of golgi mannosidase I by DMJ resulted in a significantly decreased adhesion of DMJ treated HT-29 cells to laminin , type IV collagen , and fibronectin . |
| 10 | Quinton and Rutter ( 1976 ) replicated this finding , and were able to show that disorder resulting from hospital admission was not explicable in terms of other medical factors such as persisting disability or low birth weight . |
| 11 | In the first study we were able to show that clients treated in either mode were significantly less depressed at the end of treatment than those held on a waiting list for the same length of time ( Scott and Stradling , 1990 ) , and that this reduction in symptoms was maintained for up to 12 months post treatment — see Figure 3 . |
| 12 | By means of thermodynamic arguments it is possible to show that entropy change is equal to energy transferred as heat , q , divided by the temperature , T , thus The change in entropy can , relate to either the system or the surroundings . |
| 13 | Even a cursory glance is enough to show that Picasso had several changes of mind while he was working on the canvas . |
| 14 | Clutton-Brock ( 1974 ) , for example , using finer instruments and methods than the earlier work , and applying it to species contrasts , was able to show that differences between two colobus species living in the same forest were functions of their feeding ecology . |
| 15 | He was able to show that fluctuations in union membership appeared to be determined , at least in part , by fluctuations in economic conditions . |
| 16 | Drawing upon detailed field studies by W. F. R. Weldon ( 1860–1906 ) , the biometrical school was able to show that selection did indeed have a measurable effect even on the short term . |
| 17 | In one case it was able to show that tracks of information were being written too closely together , thus partially erasing each other . |
| 18 | The Workers ' Birth Control Group was anxious to show that women were not going to renege on motherhood if they were permitted easier access to birth control information : ‘ the committee of this organisation consists of married women who have children , and they are not in any way out to say it is a good thing not to have children ’ . |