Example sentences of "revealing [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Revealing for the first time the size of the Exchange Fund ( which guaranteed the Hong Kong dollar ) , the Financial Secretary , Hamish Macleod , announced on July 15 that at the end of 1991 foreign reserves stood at US$29,000 million , the 12th largest in the world . |
2 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
3 | John of Salisbury 's comment that not only the towns but also the fortresses of Gaul feared Henry I of England was revealing of the new situation . |
4 | Bradman says it was Fingleton , Fingleton said it was Bradman , and Leo O'Brien ( the 12th man ) further confused the issue by revealing in a recent interview with Wisden Cricket Monthly that neither Bradman nor Fingleton was in the room at the time of the exchange , but ( former Australian Test players ) Ryder and Kippax , who were both reporting the matches in one way or another , were . ’ |
5 | Thirdly , just as cross-linguistic comparisons can reveal general functions of language by contrasts between what is encoded in one language and not in another , so comparisons across stages of acquisition can be revealing in the same way ( Ochs , 1979a ) . |