Example sentences of "showed [conj] [art] [noun] of the " in BNC.

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1 Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support .
2 5 Can find the area and perimeter of a rectangular shape ( whole units only ) The test results for items exemplifying this criterion showed that the presentation of the figures influenced what the pupils did .
3 A test showed that the frequencies of the three possible types of transition did not differ significantly from the values expected if the identity of a cone were independent of the identity of its neighbours and reflected only the absolute probability of that cone type ( ) .
4 Meanwhile , let Scotland 's rugby community applaud the actions of Morris and his England colleagues which showed that the spirit of the game lives on , even although it may not always be apparent throughout a modern international match ! 930315
5 Hubel and Wiesel showed that the properties of the neurons in the visual cortex were drastically changed by restricting the visual experience of an animal , provided that these restrictions took place during a few months early in life called the sensitive period .
6 Direct comparison of the results showed that the performance of the pupils in the project 's sample was extremely close to that of the lowest 40 per cent of attainers in the APU surveys .
7 It was an episode which showed that the conviction of the virtuous power of public opinion had become firmly fixed in the antislavery movement and it provided the source of growing unease about the African Institution by the early 1820s .
8 These have been used retrospectively by Pissarides ( 1982 ) who showed that the percentage of the 18-year-old cohort gaining two or more A-levels had responded to changes in real permanent income and the ratio of expected earnings of manual workers to university graduates .
9 Light-scattering measurements showed that the concentration of the micelles had been increased by 60 per cent .
10 J. J. Simpson and his colleagues showed that the axons of the on-type directionally selective ganglion cells pass to the brain in a special pathway called the Accessory Optic Tract , and end in a nucleus that has three divisions .
11 This optimism would be undermined by the Dust-Bowl of the 1930s , which showed that the destruction of the soil made possible by farming would have a permanent effect on the land , just as a follower of Warming 's more materialistic approach might have predicted .
12 Accounts of the dispatch of this , the last descendant of the royal line , showed that the cruelty of the conquest did not dim .
13 Leaked correspondence showed that the director of the DoE pollution inspectorate told the company in June 1990 that any further delay in compliance would be illegal .
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