Example sentences of "shows up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well suited or well fitted with the , with the stuff that , you know , you 've , you 've got erm I mean that 's probably the best way to do it and I also find actually trying to write things sh myself shows up the holes in arguments , shows up the bits that you need yet to fill in sort of thing |
| 2 | Choate shows up the hypocrisy of former Administration members who oppose the Japanese publicly but take large fees for acting for them behind the scenes . |
| 3 | This , unfortunately , shows up the flaw in an otherwise excellent gearbox . |
| 4 | The small study of children developing reading reported by Kyle ( 1981b ) confirms the general view , but shows up the gap between vocabulary development , where progress is made throughout schooling , and sentence comprehension , where deaf children frequently reach a plateau at about the 8-year-old level . |
| 5 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 6 | This shows up the reason for this tough line which , unfortunately , is no longer the stance that the Court of Appeal now unequivocally adopts . |
| 7 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |