Example sentences of "as is show [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When a boy goes ‘ bang bang ’ with his finger , or a more realistic-looking gun , he no more wishes to kill or maim the ‘ enemy ’ than his parents would actually enjoy seeing gouts of blood issuing from a real villain as is shown on television .
2 This does not mean that those areas were not occupied , however , and , although settlements were less densely packed away from the well-drained , easily-worked gravel , they certainly existed , as is shown by fieldwork and excavations in advance of road schemes .
3 The human eye is good at choosing phenotypic effects , as is shown by the numerous breeds of dogs , cattle and pigeons , and also , if I may say so , as is shown by Figure 5 .
4 The distribution in present-day Belfast is quite different , as is shown by table 4.9 and figure 3.3 .
5 Intra-market business is large and , as is shown by Table 3.3 , has in recent years been averaging over £2 billion per business day .
6 Fossil evidence for some of this early history is shrouded in obscurity , hidden in the vast stretches of Precambrian time , but as is shown in Chapter 7 more evidence is being discovered each year .
7 Modern methods of teaching reading avoid this stage , as is shown in Chapter 4 .
8 Most of his examples are from adult reading but the basis of his theory of literature , as is shown in Chapter 1 , is childhood fantasies .
9 Reading is , as is shown in Chapter 1 , thinking under the stimulus of print and picture .
10 As is shown in fig. 7.4 , Nigeria stands to lose , at current rates of deforestation , all of its rainforest by the year 2000 and with a rapidly growing population solutions are needed immediately .
11 As is shown in Fig. 24.3 , it was a simple step to translate this into a hypothesis about the effects of early experience on mating preferences ( Bischof , 1972 ; Bateson , 1978a ) .
12 This is usually the key of the last record in the block , as is shown in Fig. 7.15 .
13 Some authorities , notably Gilbert , maintained that most of the material was supplied by longshore drift and that the waves merely acted on this material : others , especially de Beaumont , considered that the material contained in the bar was eroded from the sea bed in front of the bar , as is shown in Fig. 8.18 .
14 Of both boys and girls who gain A level passes , a higher percentage of those in independent schools gain three or more passes than do those in maintained schools , as is shown in Figure 11.19 .
15 The asymptotic expression ( 6.4 ) is accurate for quite small values of n , as is shown in Table 6.1 ( from Chandrasekhar ( 1943 ) for n = 10 ) .
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