Example sentences of "show they [prep] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers of teeth involved are often quite small , and where there is a major discrepancy between the digestion of the upper and lower teeth in columns 9 and 10 of Table 3.13 , reference to the actual numbers involved show them to be very small indeed , sometimes no more than one ( columns 7 and 8 ) . |
| 2 | Although magistrates are no longer predominantly male , successive studies ( notably Baldwin , 1976 ; but see also Hood , 1972 , and Burney , 1979 ) have shown them to be overwhelmingly middle-aged and middle-class . |
| 3 | A lecturer at a police training college published essays written by officers in training which showed them to be openly racist . |
| 4 | Thirdly , several of the studies focusing on mothers of people with schizophrenia showed them to be more likely to be psychiatrically disturbed , and in particular , more schizoid than mothers of normal children . |
| 5 | The weakness of glass fibres brings us to the question of Griffith cracks and it also brings us back to Professor Inglis , whom we left in Chapter 2 worrying about why ships broke in two at sea when simple calculation showed them to be amply strong enough . |
| 6 | Critics of the firm as a cooperative family have produced a more penetrating assessment of Japanese industrial relations which shows them to be less unique than they at first appear . |
| 7 | A glance at the Chelsea Gardener 's relevant entries shows them to be concisely informative . |