Example sentences of "that it show " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most important point to come out of the Crabb affair was that it showed that the intelligence services were prepared to carry out operations contrary to the direct orders of the prime minister who was in charge of them . |
| 2 | While media seemed to have little influence on driving behaviour , both groups of drivers felt that it showed cars in an unrealistic light — only seven percent thought otherwise . |
| 3 | It 's the sort of fruitless post-mortem that bridge-players do but the point of the incident is that it showed the extent to which Hunt 's temper could affect his judgement , for in motor racing , as Nigel Mansell was to find out a decade later , to lose one 's cool harms only oneself . |
| 4 | Others will tell you that it showed cricket 's ability to absorb change , an ability it now has another chance to demonstrate . |
| 5 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 6 | The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years . |
| 7 | He told one interviewer that there was little , if any , worthwhile poetry being written in England ; of the poetry of " the Movement " , then a fashionable group , he said that it showed neither motion nor direction , and he was also scornful of the present generation of critics and reviewers . |
| 8 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 9 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 10 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 11 | Chubais claimed that the letter represented a coup inside the CPSU leadership by conservatives led by politburo member Yegor Ligachev ( who in recent weeks had made several public statements attacking the Democratic Platform ) , while Yury Afanasyev said that it showed the party to be " beyond redemption " . |
| 12 | Dennis Henigan , of the Legal Action Project at the Centre to Prevent Handgun Violence , called the decision a " big victory " , and said that it showed that the Second Amendment was " no threat to reasonable gun laws " . |
| 13 | Manuel Salgado , the interim president of the Ecuadorian Congress , currently visiting Cuba , stated that it showed that " US governing circles have not modified in the least their imperial policies , which dream of a unipolar world rooted in subjugation and slavery " . |
| 14 | The decision to dismiss Yakovlev caused strong criticism in the liberal press , which warned that it showed an increasing reluctance to brook opposition on the part of the Russian leadership and could be interpreted as a sacrifice to conservative forces prior to the forthcoming Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 15 | It did n't occur to her that it showed off her pretty fair hair to perfection , and did wonders for her figure . |
| 16 | ( It should come as little surprise that it showed a deficit , albeit of only £55,000 . ) |
| 17 | Many pilots consider , quite wrongly , that it shows lack or judgement to use airbrakes on the base leg . |
| 18 | But this particular extract is useful for another reason , in that it shows , through the sub-plots which appear within it , the range of issues provoked by the research which respondents were sensitive about . |
| 19 | The first is that it shows well the distinction Engels makes between general principles — in this case the dissolution of communal organization and the rise of class — and specific cases . |
| 20 | Gassendi had suggested that it shows improper pride for a person who has feet to take him where he wants to go to ‘ yearn to fly like the birds ’ . |
| 21 | The significance of the act is that it shows how much further the Lords of the Congregation were now prepared to go . |
| 22 | ‘ Others have told me that it shows an old woman sitting looking out on a stormy sea from a tranquil cottage garden . |
| 23 | Of course , one good thing about the Bastille fiasco is that it shows how seriously culture is taken in France . |
| 24 | The irony of this fascinating book is that it shows that Charlie Francis was doing very well as a coach without giving drugs to his athletes . |
| 25 | Set each item against a contrasting background so that it shows up clearly and lay a ruler alongside it to give a guide to its size . |
| 26 | If you believe our young fans the secret of the film 's success — it broke box office records in the US by grossing £25 million in its first five days — is that it shows a mere kid getting the better of two witless adults . |
| 27 | It would be more accurate to say that it shows the decline of community and public practices . |
| 28 | One of this book 's merits is that it shows how hard stone application was not confined to the Baroque , and includes unexpected nineteenth-century examples . |
| 29 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 30 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |