Example sentences of "show to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | a requirement or condition which he applies or would apply equally to a man but — ( i ) which is such that the proportion of women who can comply with it is considerably smaller thin the proportion of men who can comply with it , and ( ii ) which he can not show to be justifiable irrespective of the sex of the person to whom it is applied , and ( iii ) which is to her detriment because she can not comply with it . |
| 2 | After the success of Twin Peaks , ABC executives are reportedly considering more high risk shows including CopRock , the first police show to be done as a musical in the pilot , a jury signs the verdict in a song composed by Randy Newman . |
| 3 | The main horsy event in October is the Horse of the Year Show to be held at the Wembley Stadium ( 8–12 October ) . |
| 4 | One possibility relates to the many cases where plural reference is made under conditions which our results show to be relatively unfavourable . |
| 5 | ( The photons that carry the electromagnetic force have no mass ; this corresponds to the force having infinite range , as experiments show to be the case . ) |
| 6 | Despite their lack of power and control , it is individual teachers in schools who must effect changes to improve education — if that is what the tests show to be necessary . |
| 7 | Proven and probable reserves are estimated quantities of commercially producible hydrocarbons which existing geological , geophysical and engineering data show to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs . |
| 8 | It shows to be wholly naive claims that the problem of the patriarchal nature of the biblical literature could be solved by for example substituting certain female words for male words , or concentrating on those stories which concern women . |
| 9 | These crises he showed to be caused by a general lack of planning ( ‘ anarchy ’ ) of the capitalist methods of production , by the impossibility of attaining correct proportions between the various elements of the process of reproduction under capitalism , especially between production and consumption . |
| 10 | These crises he showed to be caused by a general lack of planning ( anarchy ) of the capitalist methods of production , by the impossibility of attaining correct proportions between elements of the process of reproduction under capitalism , especially between production and consumption … he showed the cause to be the incapability of capitalism to maintain an equilibrium among the various elements of production . |
| 11 | Most of those whom the investigations showed to be credit-worthy justified the faith put in them and stayed the course . |
| 12 | The authors put in what our research showed to be most needed : more authentic reading texts to revise and extend the target vocabulary , more revision of language structures , and four complete Progress Tests … |
| 13 | Even water privatisation , which every opinion poll showed to be a deeply unpopular measure , was almost six times over-subscribed . |
| 14 | ‘ but invariably , even when we have needed to correct or update details in our reports , the sad fact remains that the overall portrait of horror has been shown to be true and if anything , understated . ’ |
| 15 | This will be shown to be particularly the case in the next chapter on the relationship between catholicism and the Irish constitution . |
| 16 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 17 | This respect for authority has appeared throughout the examples given , but it has also been shown to be a respect within certain limits . |
| 18 | For even at the generally modest level of competition that Beckenham offers , the British are shown to be dismal failures . |
| 19 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 20 | Yet since 1987 , the level of child sexual abuse diagnosed in Cleveland has been shown to be no higher than elsewhere in the country , and an increasing number of people locally take the view that she should be treated in the same way as myself — allowed to return to work as a paediatrician in Cleveland , but restricted from working in child abuse for the time being . |
| 21 | Although paperwork is boring , it is not difficult to do , but there are other duties where there is a risk of being shown to be incompetent , which are disliked for this reason . |
| 22 | Again he is taking over precisely the ‘ modern ’ definitions and oppositions , between the normal and pathological , the natural and unnatural , etc. , which have been shown to be both confused and ideological in the narrow sense . |
| 23 | And feeding back through that inversion is an equally scandalous interrogation of the dominant order being mimicked ; civil society is shown to be rooted in a like corruption . |
| 24 | Masculine sexuality is shown to be complex and unstably implicated within the whole social domain . |
| 25 | Also , two of masculinity 's basic characteristics , sexual prowess and violence , are shown to be inextricably related , as indicated for example by the conventional but still revealingly obsessive association of sword and phallus ( e.g. at ii . |
| 26 | In an extraordinary speech masculinity is further shown to be rooted in a sexual violence performed inseparably against both men and women — ( Vitelli to Clara ) : |
| 27 | The Colonial Office Circular of 1909 to its employees on ‘ immoral relations with native women , is shown to be a crucial development which involved ‘ a massive and indeed revolutionary intrusion of public authority into the private lives of official classes overseas ’ . |
| 28 | The idea of the unchanging east was widespread in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thought and it seems that Marx accepted this view , although it has subsequently been shown to be misleading . |
| 29 | But this , it is claimed , may make them more vulnerable than most to negative emotions when they are shown to be powerless . |
| 30 | However , receptive anal intercourse is shown to be the riskiest sexual behaviour . |