Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] show the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK 's growth of total exports showed the slowest growth of any of 19 Industrial Market Economies for much of the last 25 years ( World Bank , 1989 ) ; however , through the mid 1980s the decline of the UK 's share of world trade was arrested at the level of about 8 per cent . |
| 2 | Lord Tebbit 's reception and the hostile — even abusive — barracking of pro-Euro speakers showed the Tory split . |
| 3 | Their pale flesh in that wreckage made her shiver ; it stirred morbid thoughts of the fragile membrane retaining blood inside the body , the tender transitions between limb and limb , the throbbing larval transparency of scientific diagrams showing the foetal development of … infant salmon , infant monkeys , infant anything . |
| 4 | … the inherited legacy of early books showing the covert message of the passive domesticated girl and the active boy . |
| 5 | Melibee is followed by the Monk 's Tale , a collection of brief vignettes showing the tragic fall of men ( and of one woman ) from some high degree through the change of fortune . |
| 6 | His general idea was that certain types of mental defectives showed the physical features of certain races ; hence the term mongol . |
| 7 | Analysing the substantial drift of evacuees back to the danger areas , the Air Raid Precautions Co-ordinating Committee concluded that ‘ a detailed examination of available materials shows the basic cause to be the failure of the scheme to take account of either the viewpoint or the welfare of those concerned , be they evacuee or host ’ . |
| 8 | Along with the central issue of the Watergate scandal — the cover-up — and the involvement of the President and the White House , a series of other revelations showed the Nixon administration in a most unsavoury light . |
| 9 | A pair of Spectacled Cobras showing the marking on the hood . |
| 10 | Examples of recent articles show the range of subjects covered . |