Example sentences of "[prep] showing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After showing how Galloway Lochs had become acidified , Battarbee has now produced similar evidence for 17 Scottish lochs , 5 English and 8 Welsh lakes . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's their reward after showing so much patience since last autumn , ’ said Gerry Anderson . |
| 3 | This way of showing why a phenomenon is likely to occur by citing some social factor is what is characteristic of , and essential to , our interest in holist explanation . |
| 4 | Realism offered a way of showing why the USA had to be so involved . |
| 5 | When the regression was over , Barry was able to see that , because of his past experience , he had become terrified of showing even the slightest sign of aggression in this lifetime in case he once again lost control and reverted to his former self . |
| 6 | Most mixed economy interventions involve the state in subsidizing or taking over the organization of necessary economic activities unprofitable for capital ; and most welfare policies can be understood as attempts to socialize labour costs falling on businesses , which become financed out of general taxation instead of showing up directly in employers ' wage bills and production costs . |
| 7 | Or if you 're comparing people with themselves as it were , that is looking for differences between how they answer one question and how they answer another question , then sort of , you know , kind of twenty or more people and you 've got a reasonable chance of showing up some , some P less than point O fives . |
| 8 | Certainly , we have neither the design nor the actual possibility of showing here the full truth of dialectical materialism … |
| 9 | Not that terrible sense of showing off . |
| 10 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 11 | After a few days swanking round relatives and old schoolfriends , the novelty of showing off the new clothes and slang such as ‘ She stinks on ice , kid , ’ wore off . |
| 12 | Even after such a long absence from home , Leopold could not bear to waste any opportunity of showing off his brilliant children , so , instead of going straight back to Salzburg , they took a tortuous route through Dijon , Lyons , Switzerland , Donaueschingen and Augsburg to Munich , where Leopold even contemplated extending the trip to Italy . |
| 13 | She spoke quietly and politely and without any sign of showing off . |
| 14 | Mary-Claude was hopping with excitement at the idea of showing off their new daughter to her family . |
| 15 | And I think it does work nicely because it , th most of the frame is filled with the girl 's hair and she 's got nice blonde hair , nicely lit , that erm is a good way of showing off her head . |
| 16 | And the reason for a , a lot of fashion and a lot of change in the fashions , one of the reasons is because these men had , needed some way of showing off their wealth . |
| 17 | It is , however , a very personal and supportive communication and , from a historian 's point of view could have the advantage of showing more about the people writing the letters than the scientific work under discussion . |
| 18 | Appreciable variations between subjects , combined with the small numbers investigated in these invasive and time consuming studies , compound the difficulties of showing statistically significant differences and establishing a normal range of values . |
| 19 | It is hard to deny , from a commonsense reader 's point of view , that texts differ greatly in their degree of stylistic interest or markedness ; or that some texts are more transparent " , in the sense of showing forth their meaning directly , than others . |
| 20 | ‘ I shall try to think of some way of showing how grateful I am for your bravery . |
| 21 | SEE-SAW DIAGNOSIS The see-saw is a good way of showing how weight transfer works . |
| 22 | In St Augustine 's interpretation of Trinitarian doctrine , Hilton also found a way of showing how sinful man could learn about the incomprehensible God and return to his creator . |
| 23 | Ethnomethodology has developed various ways of demonstrating these unwritten rules of social life , and of showing how they are continuously achieved by social actors . |
| 24 | At that time , the museum will have a Learn to See system that ‘ will be complete from the point of view of showing how well the Musee d'Orsay can develop a multimedia system , ’ said Herve Lebec , the Orsay account manager for DEC France . |
| 25 | Before proceeding with an elaboration of the two strategies invoked by company law to legitimate the power of corporate managers , I will give an overview of the traditional model of the company with the object of showing how its development is characterized both by an increasing centralization of the authority to manage the company in the hands of the directors of the company and by a concern to justify this vesting of broad discretionary power in corporate management . |
| 26 | The Budget , every March , is the Government 's way of showing how it intends to balance the nation 's books in the coming twelve months . |
| 27 | This chapter has the practical purpose of showing how the apparatus of linguistic description can be used in analysing the style of a prose text . |
| 28 | In the next section I offer an argument that this can not be right , and if the argument is sound we shall have to find some other way of showing how any of our beliefs can be non-inferentially justified and thus can stand on their own feet . |
| 29 | In particular , it has been incapable of showing how British cultural nationalism becomes a language of race . |
| 30 | In his biographical criticism this took the form of showing how popular sentiment acting on suggestible minds simplified people into myths . |