Example sentences of "is [adj] show [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grandfather used to say ‘ the day is a cock 's stride longer at Old Newerday ’ ( 12th January ) , but in the first week of the new year there is little to show that the sun is creeping marginally higher each day . |
| 2 | Inside particle accelerators it is possible to show that the weak force and electromagnetism are two parts of a single ‘ electro-weak ’ force . |
| 3 | If one takes simply the early industrial period , up to about 1820 , it is possible to show that almost one third of rural households contained servants , typically young people in their early teens who left home to spend about 10 to 15 years in service before marrying . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family . |
| 5 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 6 | The general form is Under certain conditions it is possible to show that any functional y may be expressed in the form ( Frechet 1910 ) . |
| 7 | If r1 and r2 are the major and minor axes of the ellipse and A , B its widths in the strain and stress directions , that is , the strain and stress amplitudes , respectively , it is possible to show that |
| 8 | By calculating the arrival time of photons reaching the distant observer it is possible to show that the energy in the signal fades away quickly . |
| 9 | In both Devon and Somerset it is possible to show that some of the surviving medieval farmsteads represent former hamlets . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is equivalent to the competitive processes of matching consumer preferences and cost conditions in a market with many buyers and sellers and it is possible to show that under appropriate conditions similar efficiency properties will characterise the ultimate equilibrium of the distribution of households across local authorities . |
| 12 | But it is easier to show that the Aquitanians ' identity as a people was imposed on them rather than felt by them in Carolingian times . |
| 13 | For solvent A Raoult 's law is This shows that the lowering of the vapour pressure , given by PA° PA " is proportional to the mole fraction of the non-volatile solute , XB . |
| 14 | It is straightforward to show that the threat of minimax punishment forever is always capable of enforcing a collusive agreement which gives a firm a higher profit than its security level for some set of interest rates . |
| 15 | It is easy to show that these two steps combine to give the required result . |
| 16 | It is easy to show that no algorithm that always prefers one source to another can be adequate . |
| 17 | Substitution of the Rivlin form for For sheet materials stressed in their plane one of the Then it is easy to show that who showed that a form , with f a decreasing function of gave the best fit . |
| 18 | For example , if we consider the English phoneme , it is easy to show that it differs from the plosives and in its place of articulation ( alveolar ) , from in being lenis , from and in not being fricative , from in not being nasal , and so on . |
| 19 | Experience is likely to show that this optional page is rarely completed because the extra costs have to be passed on to clients . |
| 20 | Will he confirm or deny that the Tomlinson inquiry is likely to show that two directly managed units and one trust are in serious trouble ? |
| 21 | At any given time the monitoring of caseloads is likely to show that some lawyers have capacity while others are overloaded . |
| 22 | But because it is part of the school ethos ( for teachers and pupils alike ) that it is embarrassing to show that you have been hurt , people remain mostly unaware of the pain that these mundane disparagements cause . |
| 23 | Grieco is able to show that in each of the situations she studied in different regions of Britain , proportions of the workforce had kin connections with the firm for which they worked . |
| 24 | She is able to show that both women and men are much more likely to be living with relatives after a marriage has ended than during it . |
| 25 | Only a comparatively limited amount of data , plus actual experience obtained from visiting parts of the Auvergne LFA , is available for the French uplands but sufficient is available to show that no significant losses of semi-natural vegetation or habitats has occurred . |
| 26 | It is insufficient to show that the brakes were regularly maintained . |
| 27 | The title alone is enough to show that this piece , if it avoids giving offence in the ways just glanced at , will offend none the less . |
| 28 | Even a cursory glance is enough to show that Picasso had several changes of mind while he was working on the canvas . |
| 29 | Nevertheless the evidence which we have is enough to show that the situation in Merovingian Francia may not have been so very different from Visigothic Spain , where kings are well known to have been closely involved in the major ecclesiastical councils of the kingdom . |
| 30 | This was stated clearly in the paper that Thonemann and his team published in Nature on 25 January 1958 : ‘ To identify a thermonuclear process it is necessary to show that random collisions in the gas between deuterium ions are responsible for the nuclear reactions . |