Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] shown [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flexibility on the Pakistani side was shown by the Pakistani Foreign Minister 's recognition of the Soviet Union 's ‘ legitimate interest in expecting that any Government in Kabul should be friendly towards it and should be mindful of its security interests ’ . |
| 2 | Films were shown in the Applied Psychology Unit 's driving simulator . |
| 3 | Films were shown in the Applied Psychology Unit 's driving simulator as described for Study 2 . |
| 4 | He must surely have supposed that Alpheus was shown in the southern gable-corner , Cladeus in the north ; and if the designer intended these figures for the rivers he would naturally have set them so . |
| 5 | With the child 's consent the video was shown to the secondary school 's staff to raise awareness of the child 's needs and at the same time to identify the staff 's anxieties and areas for future staff development . |
| 6 | Video evidence was shown of the devastating effects of bottle feeding where there is no access to clean water increased risk of diarrhoea , respiratory infections and malnutrition . |
| 7 | This company town mentality was shown by the local Chamber of Commerce 's response , issued after an emergency meeting , when the coalition government in 1973 abolished the 20-year tax concession : |
| 8 | The army is mindful of its prestige , and the strength of public feeling was shown by the huge turn-out ( over 300,000 people ) for an anti-military rally in central Moscow on the first Sunday after the killings in Vilnius . |
| 9 | It may interest you to know that until last highlights from the previous day 's Five Nations Championship games were shown on the nationwide seven o'clock news every Sunday evening in China . |
| 10 | Little interest in British views on Japan were shown beyond the superficial courtesies of diplomatic exchanges in Washington . |
| 11 | D'Arcy was shown into the massive hallway and through one of five adjoining doors into the living room . |
| 12 | The taken-for-granted world was shown as the fragile construction that it really is . |
| 13 | A high level of methylase activity was shown by the wild type enzyme at both 30° and 42° . |
| 14 | The accuracy of patients ' self monitoring was shown by the good reproducibility of measurements of control solutions ( Precinorm , Boehringer Mannheim ) and by the good correlation between the monthly triglyceride concentrations measured in the laboratory and the mean monthly preprandial values measured at home ( r =0.88 , p<0.001 . |
| 15 | Commentators noted that the country 's disillusion with politics was shown by the low turnout and the considerable support for extremist or joke parties , such as the Confederation for an Independent Poland ( which was strongly nationalistic ) , and the Beer Lovers ' Party ( which was led by a comedian but included businessmen ) . |
| 16 | It was almost a week later when Hari Morgan was shown into the small sitting-room of the house in Chapel Street . |