Example sentences of "show [that] they [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 2 | Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time . |
| 3 | Nos. 18–26 passed into the hands of London Transport in 1933 and their records show that they were sold to Cohens for scrapping on 17 May 1934 , Nos. 18 , 21 , 22 , 23 and 26 in Penge depôt and 20 , 24 and 25 at Fulwell , where No. 19 followed on 2 October . |
| 4 | In order to establish that its terms were incorporated into a particular contract , a business must show that they were accepted by , or on behalf of , the other contracting party . |
| 5 | This means that such extracts are protected provided the defendant can show that they were published in good faith and without malice . |
| 6 | A close comparison of all the details of the heads reveals no differences , and shows that they were struck from the same die . |
| 7 | The priestesses ' complete abandonment to the dance , as depicted in some of the ring images , shows that they were using dance , just as the dervishes were to use it much later , to induce a state of religious ecstasy . |
| 8 | Their recovery from graves shows that they were used as personal ornaments , but the discovery of large numbers in the peat bogs , sometimes enclosed in eared flasks , suggests that they were also used as votive offerings , a sign which suggests in itself that amber was regarded as precious enough to serve as conspicuous waste . |
| 9 | A series of very guarded letters written in July and August 1559 between them and Elizabeth 's leading minister , William Cecil , shows that they were contemplating at the very least an outright challenge to the regent 's authority — a bold enough but not actually unprecedented step — but possibly something more , and infinitely more sensational , the deposition of the queen herself ; and at the same time they were proposing a dramatic reversal of foreign relations , in which Scottish friendship would certainly be switched from her traditional ally France to her traditional enemy England , and that even closer ties between Scotland and England might be envisaged . |
| 10 | The possession of Tours , the city of St Martin , an important market and a vital communications centre , gave the Angevins a tremendous strategic advantage ; and the building of the great castles of Chinon , Loches and Loudun showed that they were determined to hold on to it . |
| 11 | Earlier studies of comets jets , focused on the short-period comet Swift-Tuttle , showed that they were made up of dust particles of about one micrometer in diameter . |
| 12 | A mile to the west of Loch Gorm the road to Gruinart cuts through a settlement at An Sithern of about a dozen round houses which were constructed in the late Bronze Age and which a cursory examination has shown that they were used at least three times . |
| 13 | Of the many marble figures offered to Athena on the Acropolis some have attributes of the goddess , but the great majority are girls with nothing to suggest that they are she ; many have inscriptions showing that they were given by men ; and they seem to be simply themselves , servants or companions for the deity . |
| 14 | These people were already showing that they were trying to make the best and rebuild their lives . " |
| 15 | Two spoiled griffin-heads were found at the Samian Heraion , showing that they were made there , as no doubt they were at Olympia too . |
| 16 | His abduction had been a blow to their attempts to show that they were bringing Lebanon to order . |
| 17 | By May 1915 Unionist leaders were convinced that they must give up some independence if they were to influence the war ; the liquor issue seemed to show the danger of staying aloof , and the shell scandal seemed to show that they were needed inside . |