Example sentences of "[verb] shown [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey among the residents ' families has shown overwhelming opposition to the closure proposal . |
| 2 | Insignia has shown consistent profitability for the last five quarters and in calendar 1991 had sales of $14.5m — £8m , an 80% increase over the previous year . |
| 3 | Analysis of marriage patterns in western urban societies has shown consistent patterns of large numbers of marriages taking place between partners who live close to each other with steep decreases in numbers as distance between the residences of partners increase . |
| 4 | Thus far , with help from its friends , Israel has shown impressive restraint . |
| 5 | Clydesdale Electrical , the Glasgow-based electrical retailer which has shown impressive growth in what is currently regarded as a lacklustre sector , won the judges ' unanimous approval for its courageous and aggressive marketing strategy . |
| 6 | Research into compulsory competitive tendering under the Local Government Act 1988 has shown average savings of 6 per cent . |
| 7 | LITTLE Laura Davies has shown extraordinary bravery throughout her young life . |
| 8 | Professor Jose Fernandez-Britto , a world-renowned pathologist from Havana , has shown striking evidence of the death of cancer cells that become surrounded by fibrous tissue as a consequence of shark cartilage . |
| 9 | Perfusion of the colon , with a colonoscope in place , has shown impaired absorption of fluid and electrolytes in patients with cholera . |
| 10 | But top scorer John Taylor , who has shown disappointing form recently , could make way for Marcus Browning , who has returned from a loan spell with Hereford after scoring six goals in five games . |
| 11 | Ricardo 's spark-ignition gas fuel research has shown good results from two designs . |
| 12 | He has shown good in Allgood and even in the evil captain , bad in the intermittently cowardly surgeon , a mixture of impulses in William Bentley . |
| 13 | Because of this there has been scientific and practical interest in the facks that amonoantibiotic regimen comprising omeprazole and amoxicillin has been highly successful in eradicating H pylori in some pilot studies and has shown good results with regard to H pylori reinfection and the clinical course of peptic ulcer disease in the first year after treatment . |
| 14 | With six wins from the last 12 F3000 races , Comas has shown great coolness under fire . |
| 15 | Even Miss Lilian has shown great fortitude in her own way . ’ |
| 16 | Monami , 22 next month , has shown great promise over the past year and strikes the ball with an unbridled enthusiasm . |
| 17 | ‘ She was the prime mover in this and has shown great determination . |
| 18 | Compaq has shown great interest in VUE , a preference that put just one of the many spanners in the works of the ACE initiative . |
| 19 | A pressure group , the Berne Declaration , has shown New Scientist confidential company reports showing that levels of the chemical in field workers from Latin America and Egypt regularly exceed the maximum permitted for the company 's own employees . |
| 20 | The Sheffield group has shown similar postoperative complications , together with disseminated intravascular coagulation in patients with inflammatory bowel disease undergoing surgery who were found to have defective splenic function as assessed by the clearance of heat damaged erythrocytes . |
| 21 | The case of Iran has shown Soviet leaders that a Third World state may withdraw comprehensively from a Western sponsored military alliance in a strategically sensitive area and avoid subsequent alignment with the USSR . |
| 22 | Microbial air sampling , which is technically difficult and only occasionally useful in establishing the source of outbreaks of legionnaires ' disease , has shown low concentrations of Legionella pneumophila in aerosol : 0.02 colony-forming units per litre of aerosol around a cooling tower and 0.19 colony-forming units per litre of air in shower aerosol . |
| 23 | Initial research has shown substantial variation in the mean heights of the British population over time and in cross-section — for example between different social classes and different areas of the country and this variation is described and explained . |
| 24 | A 100 million investment programme over three years has illus ; been announced , with a major programme of efficiency and productivity improvements at a time when the market has shown sharp and sudden decline . |
| 25 | A report has shown intensive care facilities for critically-ill children are seriously lacking . |
| 26 | It may have been from a belief that deputies provide a less good service , although published research has shown high patient satisfaction with deputies . |
| 27 | Dr Alan Williams , the caring Swansea West MP , has shown unflinching determination in his campaign to get the powers-ofentry law changed . |
| 28 | Nigerian-born John Salako came up through the Palace 's Junior ranks as a pacy winger who could also score goals but , since The Eagles ' last return to the 1st Division , John has shown himself' capable of fulfilling other roles , by performing splendidly at left-back in the latter stages of the 1989–90 season , notably in the FA Cup semi-final against Liverpool and in the Wembley Finals . |
| 29 | We did not merely see three ships come sailing by : ordering in threes has shown significant benefits and economies . |
| 30 | The freshness and innovation of the dance underground has shown remarkable powers of survival in the face of media attempts to drag it kicking into the mainstream . |