Example sentences of "to show [that] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 They purport to show that judgement should be suspended on all matters .
2 However , we now have an opportunity to show that Europe can address European problems and that we will intervene in a way that will give the people of Yugoslavia the opportunity to sit down together and find a peaceful solution to the problems .
3 Like most of the early Darwinians , Huxley was also a liberal in his politics , determined to show that society could enjoy steady progress if only traditional restrictions on individual freedom were dismantled .
4 And there 's twenty five years of evidence to show that oats can help reduce excess cholesterol .
5 Where the provision proves attractive there is no evidence to show that students wo n't travel these longer distances , however the opposite is equally true .
6 Several pilot projects are under way to show that women can be persuaded to attend for screening and that lower than average bone mass will be found in some .
7 Starting with Aristotle , elaborate classification systems have been built up to show that things may belong to the same class ( and therefore have common features ) even if their appearance is different .
8 When engineering was first introduced into universities in a large way , then the departments bent over backwards to try to show that engineering could be taught as an academic subject .
9 As one of the growing number of management consultants here in Australia attempting to show that business can be both profitable and have an ethical approach , it is heartening to see that at least some directors think we need a profound change in how we work .
10 The aim of the exercise is to show that schools can have free ( bar the cost of the adaptor ) and easy access to a range of educational software .
11 And it just goes to show that quality can be as big a crowd puller as goals .
12 There is no evidence to show that HIV can be caught from social contact .
13 Similar experiments are expected to show that BSE can also be transmitted in this way to sheep and goats .
14 John Searle is not represented directly , but the Churchlands challenge his cat-among-the pigeons argument , purporting to show that computers can not in principle ever understand , though they can handle effectively symbols or tokens .
15 gives two examples in order to show that theft may be committed , although the ( so-called ) appropriation is made by the offender with the consent of the owner , ( 1 ) in the case of robbery and ( 2 ) where there has been larceny by a trick .
16 ‘ Our aim has been to show that food can be fun , ’ said Paul who trained with Jeanne at the famed Roux brothers ' Le Gavroche restaurant in London .
17 Far from showing that teachers are very experienced predictors of how children will perform , this was taken to show that children will do , more or less , what is expected of them , whatever that may be .
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