Example sentences of "to show [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also served to show that the Hundred Years War was no longer simply a conflict between England and France : others were being caught up in it , too . |
| 2 | And it just goes to show that the Communist Party were very forward looking but |
| 3 | ‘ We had to show that the Regional Council could organise its affairs to ensure a more local system than currently exists through the regions and districts , ’ said Convenor Eric Milligan . |
| 4 | The judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to show that the former guard captain , Karl-Heinz Becker , 49 , had intended to kill when he fired his pistol at one of the two men fleeing through a checkpoint on 8 April , 1989 . |
| 5 | Inside particle accelerators it is possible to show that the weak force and electromagnetism are two parts of a single ‘ electro-weak ’ force . |
| 6 | The first has been to show that the long-run incidence of taxation , or other government measures , might be markedly different from the short-run incidence . |
| 7 | Peter Laslett , for instance , has attempted to show that the average household size from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century was 4.75 persons ( that is , always ‘ nuclear ’ ) , and he has used this data to challenge the notion that the nuclear model is a product of ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 8 | What we have done is to show that the semi-mystical assertion that " minus times minus is plus " is deducible as a consequence of other ( " more obvious " ) axioms of arithmetic . |
| 9 | Many of the constituency cases with which I have dealt in recent months have especially worried me because they seem to show that the financial hardship now experienced by many students is especially severe for those who come from low-income families . |
| 10 | In what is described as ‘ a key statement ’ , the report claims that : ‘ the onus in all cases should be on the social services authorities to show that the private sector is being fully stimulated and encouraged and that competitive tenders or other means of testing the market , are being taken ’ . |
| 11 | ( Camera pans through window to show that the front garden is green and beautiful with no industry in sight . ) |
| 12 | Experiments tend to show that the major contribution comes from the χ s component , indicating that there is a large decrease in entropy ( non-combinatorial ) which is acting against the dissolution process of a polymer in a solvent . |
| 13 | Likert attempted to show that the effective manager is one who uses the participative style of management , although the ideal manager must be able to use the right leadership style for any given situation . |
| 14 | Using this criterion it was possible to show that the damper inertia should be four times the total motor/load inertia ( including the housing inertia ) : and the viscous fluid constant should then be related to the stiffness and damper inertia by : If a well-matched damper is coupled into the system the improvement in the single-step response is achieved with a shorter settling time and lower overshoot , as shown in Fig. 4.13 . |
| 15 | The amnesty was largely a public relations exercise , designed to show that the Salvadorean government was serious about its Promise to improve human rights ; new prisoners soon took their place . |
| 16 | In the previous section , we sought to show that the black population suffers from a series of multiple disadvantages and is often , moreover , heavily geographically concentrated in inner-city areas . |
| 17 | The trace provides a permanent record , which may be used , for example , to show that the poor condition of a baby at birth was neither predictable nor preventable . |
| 18 | These few examples are enough to show that the low realization was then more widespread than today : wren and desk do not satisfy the voiceless stop or sonorant + voiceless stop condition in monosyllables , and are now categorical [ Ε : ] or [ Ε ? ] environments . |
| 19 | Nevertheless the force can produce statistics to show that the overall level of violence has fallen and that important arrests and finds of guns and explosives have been made . |
| 20 | At least 80% green patina remains with enough traces of gilt to show that the overall effect was golden . |
| 21 | There is good evidence to show that the Mental Health Act is used disproportionately against black people and other disadvantaged groups , and this element of social control that is invested in psychiatric practice is likely to be further strengthened and made more pervasive by the introduction of community supervision orders . |
| 22 | One episode is , however , enough to show that the Babylonian Jews had not drifted away . |
| 23 | We will provide some evidence , from our ethnographic work , to show that the complete picture is much more complex , and highly fluid . |
| 24 | At each phase , the project team has to show that the new car meets predetermined criteria , including financial targets , before moving on to the next . |
| 25 | Most of Marx 's comments on the division of labour are concerned with industrial production , but Braverman sets out to show that the capitalist division of labour between ‘ conception ’ and ‘ execution ’ is to be found equally in routine clerical work and in fact within any developed capitalist enterprise . |
| 26 | It seems to show that the Soviet Union has already accepted the inevitability of a drawing together of the two Germanys . |
| 27 | It seems to show that the Soviet Union has already accepted the inevitability of a drawing together of the two Germanys . |
| 28 | In answer to one question he said " I might read extracts to show that the great majority of those who left Oa went entirely of their own free will . " |
| 29 | Since the idea of earth energies was first put forward in the 1930s , attempts have been made to show that the ancient peoples could detect such energies and that , given the right conditions , we can do so today . |
| 30 | By attempting to show that the monetary changes were not associated with the changes in national income , they concluded that it must be the change in the money supply that causes the change in national income . |