Example sentences of "[noun pl] showing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussing the patient 's ‘ auditory environment ’ Gough ( 1986 ) provides vignettes showing how noise means different things to different people and reminds nurses that it is possible to be upset by silence , for example a child in an isolation unit — a salutary reminder of the importance of individualising nursing according to the circumstances . |
| 2 | It should be appreciated , however , that exactly the same kind of analysis as we shall develop here could be made equally revealingly of practical , everyday communism , Christianity , the apartheid philosophy of white South Africa , l the delusions of the mentally ill , or , as Ernest Gellner so tellingly shows , contemporary linguistic philosophy.2 So while our quest to understand the mysteries of witchcraft may take us deep into the inaccessible jungles of distant continents , we shall regularly encounter disconcertingly familiar images showing how dose to home we really are . |
| 3 | and er , not , I do n't want the back of me ears showing there |
| 4 | The cast of Her Benny , the dancers in their beautiful costumes , the steel band , the police and dogs , the schoolboys who were a credit to their schools showing how football used to be played just for the game . |
| 5 | Modern Boy included real science , with pictures showing how powerful ants were by imagining them as big as horses , in which case they could move around carrying skyscrapers . |
| 6 | Blind grain sites showing up on the ears of some cereal crops could trim yields and perhaps downgrade stands intended for seed . |
| 7 | The contributors seem to have been given a clear brief to provide just enough context to introduce the paintings themselves , with special emphasis on distinguishing the styles of lesser masters , and many plates showing refreshingly unfamiliar works from recent London auctions , all perhaps with antique collectors in mind . |
| 8 | The result was pale and sickly , stress lines showing how much she would look like her mother in a few years ' time . |
| 9 | But when the RSPCA found him in January , he was in a starved condition , his ribs and hip bones showing through , and his back legs hardly able to support him . |
| 10 | Superimposed on this map of things as they were , one sometimes finds the lines drawn in by the commissioners showing where they propose to create the new fields and hedges , and the new roads , public and private . |
| 11 | Over the next few weeks there will be other highly-regarded Scottish companies showing why they have that reputation — for instance , the Bank of Scotland and Scottish & Newcastle , to name but two . |
| 12 | Sailors perform in man-on-man heats in front of a panel of judges showing off their jumping , riding and turning skills in the waves . |
| 13 | Besides politicising education and employment , the antitesting bias inhibits the search for useful knowledge about human differences Power pressures — even legal restraints — inhibit analyses showing how individual traits correlate with education and job training , with the conditions of learning and working , and with the quality of people 's personal experience . |
| 14 | Here are some ideas showing how one might develop a drama appropriate to the age range for each of the above stories : |
| 15 | Its basis need be no more than detailed plans , backed with statements showing how they will be achieved . |
| 16 | If you notice any mole changing in character , a new mole appearing , or large dark freckles showing up on your skin , do see your doctor . |
| 17 | The locals knew that the trough was traversed at regular intervals by natural rock bridges showing just above the mud Over the centuries , millions of rip tides had worn away the softer sandstone , leaving the harder rock strata a convenient , if slippery way for the knowing locals to gain access to the sands . |
| 18 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 19 | And it 's significant that a strand of films showing how a group of individuals from different social backgrounds could be brought together by war and learn to forget their divisions , generally regarded as the supreme achievement of wartime ‘ realism ’ , was anticipated in Powell-Pressburger's One of our Aircraft is Missing ( 1941 ) , in which a bomber crew bales out over Holland and works its way home with help from the Dutch resistance . |
| 20 | In marked contrast very little through passage has been noted in the western Harbours in the spring , counts showing only a rapid departure of wintering birds in March and April . |
| 21 | No flower show is complete without its fruit and vegetables , so there are demonstration plots showing how to grow cabbages , carrots and cucumbers both outside and in the greenhouse . |
| 22 | Throughout Scotland , academics have seen this stretching of resources coming to dominate the debate on the market , with the strains showing more and more clearly throughout the system : large classes , overflowing libraries , inadequate book provision , reducing levels of student financial support , falling relative pay levels for academics , lowered morale , and less time for research . |
| 23 | To meter the proceedings a 12 section LED shows the degree of gain reduction , with a further 12 green/amber/red lights showing either the input or output level . |
| 24 | The things showing round there them . |
| 25 | Each school received figures showing how the total sum available to them had been allocated under different headings . |
| 26 | ‘ However , with the most recent figures showing less than 40pc of even full-term infants being breast-fed at six weeks , human milk is the standard that milk-manufacturers need to aim at . ’ |
| 27 | A bit of activity out on the water catches my attention next and I bring the ‘ scope out ; it is a small party of long-tailed duck in their handsome winter plumage , the long tail-streamers of the drakes showing clearly as they display to the females . |
| 28 | Then a leading photographer will capture your new look for our April issue , in which we will also publish the results of the two surveys showing how everyone found the experience of using Elancyl . |
| 29 | Recent studies showing predominantly presynaptic LTP have used 2.5mM Ca 2+ for slice experiments , and some have reported a high proportion of failures , suggesting low initial release probabilities . |
| 30 | The widely ignored " Global 2000 " report is but the latest in a growing list of official and quasi-official studies showing how the present forces of production conflict with ecological processes in a way likely to create major structural changes in the biosphere : desertification ; acid rain ; soil destruction by loss of fertility and build-up of toxins ; carbon dioxide build-up in the atmosphere ; reduction of the world 's genetic resources and variety . |