Example sentences of "have shown " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 2 | The West has been grateful to Kundera , extravagantly so at times , and has shown an impulse to beat itself with his playful fictions . |
| 3 | If any professional person has shown an interest in your work do n't let it go , but try to cultivate their interest , however tenuous it may seem — you will soon know if it 's going to be any use for the future . |
| 4 | McGreil ( 1977 : 363–408 ) has shown that though Dubliners find the English more acceptable than the Northern Irish , Dubliners still seek a solution to the Northern problem within an all-Ireland state . |
| 5 | Clare O'Halloran ( 1986 ) has shown how the social reality of Northern Ireland remained a continuing blind spot for Southern Irish nationalists particularly from the founding of the state to 1949 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | On the one hand the multiplication of good brasseries in recent months has been a breath of fresh air to the restaurant industry , and the public has shown its appreciation by packing them full every night . |
| 8 | And as last year 's retrospective of the films of Tony Garnett has shown , Birmingham 's impressive movie traditions are continuing . |
| 9 | Experience has shown , however , that often it is the young and able students who are most likely to go undetected and have a low ‘ g ’ accident . |
| 10 | Leach ( 1977 ) has shown the ephemerality which lies in any attempt to classify deviance on a global scale ; for what is criminal in one society or at one point in time is relative to that time and place and to who holds the discourse on power . |
| 11 | As Turner ( 1974 : 245 ) has shown in his essay Passages , Margins and Poverty , this philosophy epitomized the concept of movement as a rite of passage into liminality . |
| 12 | Firstly , karateka are not allowed to bring their own coaches with them to training sessions because experience has shown that the presence of other coaches breaks up the training atmosphere , and causes people to separate to far corners instead of remaining together . |
| 13 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
| 14 | Later research has shown that dreaming is not unique to this phase of sleep , but REM dreams are typically much more colourful and rich in imagery than non-REM dreams . |
| 15 | The rise in the quality of French tennis over the last 20 years , culminating in the emergence of players such as Yannick Noah , Henri Leconte and now Guy Forget , coupled with the transformation of the French Open at Roland Garros into what the majority of players regard as the best organised of the four Grand Slams ( even though Wimbledon remains favourite as to the one they most want to win ) are due very largely to the leadership he has shown . |
| 16 | My particular cleaner came with two sizes of suction tube , and experiment has shown that for maximum suck the large diameter pipe must go from the cleaner to the container . |
| 17 | Dr Alan Williams , the caring Swansea West MP , has shown unflinching determination in his campaign to get the powers-ofentry law changed . |
| 18 | On balance , Williams probably gained more than he lost from his attempt to bring — and keep — together the separate traditions of Marxism and British cultural criticism , though as Parrinder has shown in a sensitive discussion of Williams , he made needless difficulties for himself by abandoning the concept of literature . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Raymond Tallis , whose own training is in medicine , has shown to what extent one of Lacan 's key concepts , the importance of the ‘ mirror stage ’ in the development of the infant 's sense of self , has no base in clinical experience . |
| 20 | Some of the pictures are American in scale — very much bigger than anything he has shown before — and this makes the resemblance more apparent . |
| 21 | Such optimism may still prove to be justified : but the bets are much riskier , now that China 's leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist and its continued vulnerability to factional disputes . |
| 22 | Recent research has shown that not all joint-ventures or alliances between Western and Japanese companies are a complete success . |
| 23 | Eurotunnel co-chairman Alastair Morton has a difficult job on his hands but he has shown he can handle it . |
| 24 | The dig has shown that the 90ft long north wall of the keep and fragments of the east and west walls survive to a height of up to 18ft . |
| 25 | Practice has shown that social justice can not be achieved where the free market is idolised . |
| 26 | John MacGregor , the Secretary of State for Education , has shown with the teachers that he actually listens to what they say . |
| 27 | ‘ The Government has shown in the past that it is willing to grasp nettles that others have shied away from , and I have no doubt we shall grasp this one if we have to . ’ |
| 28 | Unlike Western governments , which have been careful to avoid giving the appearance of fomenting unrest in eastern Europe , the Norwegian Nobel committee is thought to be ready to try to advance the cause of democracy in a country which has shown only the most rudimentary signs of change . |
| 29 | Many nationalists also admit that the RUC has shown improvement , while the UDR has not . |
| 30 | As China 's reaction to Western sanctions over the events in Tiananmen has shown , further international pressure on the Dalai Lama 's behalf may only reinforce Peking 's siege mentality and strengthen its conviction that the West is conspiring to undermine socialism in China . |