Example sentences of "show itself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 2 | We merely became accustomed to the general life of the common birds and animals , and to the appearances of trees and clouds and everything upon the surface that showed itself to the naked eye ’ . |
| 3 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 4 | While foot-based metre(s) do display promotion , they are typically " heavier " lines , and such heaviness shows itself in the high degree of demotion ( e.g. of lexical monosyllables — blind in three blind mice ) and subordination within the line . |
| 5 | She began to recognise Finn 's idiosyncratic painter 's hand , showing itself in the blossoming horses , the queer , saucer-shaped faces of pig and owl , the speckled peacock glory of the birds , the strained , professional grimaces on the faces of the tumblers , the tight-lipped endeavour on the faces of the hammering men . |
| 6 | The Profumo affair was merely the focus and catalyst for the coming to a head of that revolution in the mood and character of English life which had begun to show itself in the late summer of 1955 . |