Example sentences of "was [verb] show that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gathering was intended to show that the government , besieged by a rebellion started by the most elite units of its own armed forces , could still rely on ‘ people power ’ for support . |
| 2 | In twelfth-century legend St Valerie was the martyr ( J saint who personified Aquitaine and her story as told at Limoges — where she had lived and died and where her " thousand-year-old " body was still preserved was intended to show that Limoges was a more venerable city than Poitiers . |
| 3 | The film was intended to show that all the best names in Britain favoured European unity . |
| 4 | This chapter was intended to show that there are many ways of analysing the English phonemic system , each with its own advantages and disadvantages . |
| 5 | The race was designed to show that a bicycle is not only cheap , healthy and friendly on the environment , but also quick . |
| 6 | And his programme was to try to show that really ultimately the only things that can be accepted are our own sense experiences , and to try to exhibit everything else , ordinary material objects , and then of course , physical objects in turn , as constructions , as logical constructions out of these . |
| 7 | Finally , an attempt was made to show that , theoretically at least , quantifiers themselves could be got rid of too . |
| 8 | For detective work carried out before the series was made showed that David is a favourite with male viewers while women are hooked on crime dramas like Morse , Miss Marple and Taggart . |
| 9 | A good deal of evidence was produced to show that children tend to conform to their teachers ' expectations of them . |
| 10 | Far from showing that teachers are very experienced predictors of how children will perform , this was taken to show that children will do , more or less , what is expected of them , whatever that may be . |
| 11 | Unfortunately for the newspaper , that party did not have many wealthy benefactors , and evidence was admitted to show that others immediately made the connection . |
| 12 | MacLeay was influenced by the idealist movement now flourishing in Germany , and he was determined to show that a rationally ordered pattern underlay the apparent diversity of species . |
| 13 | If Washington was determined to show that Pan Am 's deficiencies were solely to blame for the bombing , Pan Am 's only defence was to show that Washington was at least equally at fault . |
| 14 | Earlier this week government research was published showing that 32 out of 102 ovens failed to heat food uniformly to at least 70C , the temperature necessary to kill listeria , salmonella and other food poisoning bacteria . |
| 15 | This spring he faced a preliminary inquiry in Ontario , where the Crown was required to show that there was sufficient evidence to warrant a full trial on the charges , and , subsequently , the accused was ordered to stand trial on a number of charges , including criminal negligence causing bodily harm and aggravated sexual assault . |