Example sentences of "[adj] show a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 2 | Does this show a desire to be involved in the performance ? |
| 3 | The counts in Fig. 12 show a sharp drop in November , followed in many years by further arrivals in December . |
| 4 | The chairman , Anthony Vice , said : ‘ The management results for the first two months of 1993 show a small improvement in the United Kingdom and the United States , but this has been offset by the effects of recession in Germany . ’ |
| 5 | Figures 1 and 2 show a strong inverse relation between grade of employment and rates of short and long spells of sickness absence adjusted for age . |
| 6 | A painting of the Palace done in 1776 shows a building which was possibly the ferryman 's house and this building which is shown in both of Wheatley 's paintings , is a single storey construction with a thatched roof . |
| 7 | Once again this shows a switch from personal resources to media mobilization . |
| 8 | This shows a scene at one of her famous parties , with the greeting : ‘ Hope you can come in more ways than one . ’ |
| 9 | This shows a much smaller proportion of coinage lost ( and in use ) in Britain than in Italy . |
| 10 | This shows a noticeable excess of women referred by GPs over other female referrals who were not admitted at all . |
| 11 | I think this shows a wonderfully sensitive and unselfish attitude in Patsy that she is prepared to accept this relationship . |
| 12 | If this shows a lethal mutation it is classified as a presumed mammalian mutagen . |
| 13 | This shows a failure to understand the need to plant in relationship . |
| 14 | Despite the problems mentioned above , credit should be given to BRAC for realising its errors and ( hopefully ) rectifying them : BRAC has been monitoring its own programme from the start , and this shows a healthy degree of self-evaluation . |
| 15 | ( Perhaps this shows a deficiency in the section Preparing for Bed and Coping with the Night ! |
| 16 | This shows a developing scale of value , not dissimilar to the adult 's hierarchy , although in the child 's case there will special reasons , fortified by fairy stories , for promoting animals . ) |
| 17 | This shows a decline from their levels of support in the 1980s , but hardly counts as a rejection by the electorate . |
| 18 | This shows a seven-snake-necked monster with animal heads and a long spotted body with four legs , suggestive of a leopard , and in addition to the thick tail there appear to be eight more , rising from , but not attached to the back and neck . |
| 19 | This shows a recovery in the U.K. share as compared with 1990/91 , when the figures were : U.S. 38.6% ; U.K. 24.4% ; France 13% and rest of the world 22.4% . |
| 20 | This shows a significant difference between related and unrelated pairs . |
| 21 | This shows a significant difference ( to 95% ) between correct-word scores and highest-other-word scores . |
| 22 | This shows a Spartan caution which is at variance with their previous bellicosity over Samos . |
| 23 | This shows a graph G which is actually a tree , and its cover G– . |
| 24 | This shows a large angle of entry to the pattern . |
| 25 | This shows a little phrase handed from one instrument to another . |
| 26 | This shows a percentage decline since 1951 ( when the corresponding figure for boys was 29% , or 38% including direct grant schools ) ; during this period , there was a substantial increase in absolute numbers over the minimum leaving age in independent schools , but this was overshadowed by a much larger increase , proportionately as well as absolutely , in maintained schools . |
| 27 | This shows a floral device identical to that at the centre of a reassembled pavement now displayed in Colchester Museum ( pI . |
| 28 | This shows a central , floral device , enclosed by a circle of simple guilloche , ( which , in turn , is enclosed by an arrangement of star-like interlaced squares and an outer circle of crowstep matched with three-strand guilloche ) . |
| 29 | This shows a clear image of war which the children are being returned to . |
| 30 | This shows a completely different frame of mind and lends much effect to the poem . |