Example sentences of "show them to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers of teeth involved are often quite small , and where there is a major discrepancy between the digestion of the upper and lower teeth in columns 9 and 10 of Table 3.13 , reference to the actual numbers involved show them to be very small indeed , sometimes no more than one ( columns 7 and 8 ) . |
| 2 | Blur tussle with ‘ Maggie May ’ and Suede , whose current B-sides show them to be a better band than the extremes of hype surrounding them might have encouraged you to believe , cover ‘ Brass In Pocket ’ . |
| 3 | Women 's answers to the questionnaires by which assignments to ‘ stages ’ are made show them to be more heavily represented in the early stages of development rather than the later . |
| 4 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 5 | Occasionally long-term contracts have been used , but recent experience has shown them to be uncertain , given the volatility of currencies . |
| 6 | Although magistrates are no longer predominantly male , successive studies ( notably Baldwin , 1976 ; but see also Hood , 1972 , and Burney , 1979 ) have shown them to be overwhelmingly middle-aged and middle-class . |
| 7 | They created machinery to avoid extending them to those whose ascertainable record showed them to be untrustworthy and likely to default . |
| 8 | The weakness of glass fibres brings us to the question of Griffith cracks and it also brings us back to Professor Inglis , whom we left in Chapter 2 worrying about why ships broke in two at sea when simple calculation showed them to be amply strong enough . |
| 9 | Several of the nearer birds got up and flew along the shore , revealing another feature which pin-pointed their origins : the lack of a white rump showed them to be of the race hudsonicus which breeds in northern Canada . |
| 10 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
| 11 | A lecturer at a police training college published essays written by officers in training which showed them to be openly racist . |
| 12 | Thirdly , several of the studies focusing on mothers of people with schizophrenia showed them to be more likely to be psychiatrically disturbed , and in particular , more schizoid than mothers of normal children . |
| 13 | Their Saturday evening concert at the Arts Centre showed them to be individual artists of the highest quality who together produced something greater than just the sum of the parts . |
| 14 | A glance at the Chelsea Gardener 's relevant entries shows them to be concisely informative . |
| 15 | If experience shows them to be wrong , as proved by hard evidence of a growing mountain of unmet need , their only honest course will be to fight for more resources and resign if unsuccessful . |
| 16 | Although sequence analysis shows them to be lipocalins , molecular replacement using other lipocalin structures as search models failed to produce interpretable solutions ; we therefore used the multiple isomorphous replacement method and prepared three heavy-atom derivatives of MUP . |
| 17 | The satellite intersections with these three events would have been termed ‘ mantle ’ , ‘ cusp ’ and ‘ cleft ’ in a spatial interpretation , but the radar shows them to be similar events seen at different phases of their evolution . |
| 18 | Critics of the firm as a cooperative family have produced a more penetrating assessment of Japanese industrial relations which shows them to be less unique than they at first appear . |
| 19 | Since this brings out what they have in common and shows them to be on the same side , we too shall use ‘ Positivism ’ to include the Realist approach . |
| 20 | Batteries will also slowly discharge with time so do n't re-use old ones unless a test under load shows them to be okay . |
| 21 | You will note in the Appendix that there is still a figure of 1,706 properties to be banded together with 3,618 which either have an indicator showing them to be metered supply or with no connection to the public water supply . |
| 22 | It is Milton 's portrayal of the devil which is magnificent , not the devil himself , but the author is careful enough to place Satan 's admirable qualities within the text as a whole showing them to be put to evil use . |
| 23 | Makers Thames TV insisted : ‘ It would be unrealistic not to show them to be human on occasions . ’ |