Example sentences of "[adv] shown themselves to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish Office and its ministers have already shown themselves to be unreliable guardians of our heritage , formulating policies that have — I am told — even been greeted with horror in the Department of Environment in London . |
| 2 | Science was no longer a programme ; it was a great body of knowledge , parts of which had already shown themselves to be power . |
| 3 | The trade unions are a problematic force both in and on the uneasy edges of the system of power ; a variety of factors have conspired to produce an upsurge of competing participants and conflicting demands ; elected governments have frequently shown themselves to be weak and vacillating in the face of pressures and problems ; and certain democratic aspects of the British polity have heaped problems on to the capitalist economy in a way that has " crowded out " opportunities for growth . |
| 4 | The two stallions who could not even do the test had previously shown themselves to be intelligent by their rapid ability to learn when they were broken in . |
| 5 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |