Example sentences of "shown a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artist was shown a watercolour : |
| 2 | His entrance examination , three months earlier , had shown a student of above-average ability , whose overall marks averaged 74.1 per cent , tantamount to a Second Class Honours , called Distinction at McGill . |
| 3 | Martin Braine found that if children between five and six years of age are shown a standard visual illusion — such as a stick in water appearing to be broken , by light refraction — they will distinguish correctly between ‘ looks ? ’ and ‘ really ? ’ questions , but that if they are asked the neutral question ‘ Is the stick straight or broken ? ’ they will say that it is broken . |
| 4 | When he is shown a pair of faces and has to decide which of the two is a celebrity , he performs at chance level , even though he performs almost as well as normal subjects on this task when the faces are replaced by their names . |
| 5 | I was shown a conditioning warehouse that can hold 15 million bottles and in which pallets are moved by ‘ robot ’ lifts than run on tracks . |
| 6 | The screen replaces the car windscreen , and on it is shown a road scene that has been recorded on video tape , and transferred to disk . |
| 7 | The tribunal was told that Mr Nicholson had shown a vibrator to a class of teenage boys , and also invited pupils to chalk four-letter words on the blackboard and to shout-out ‘ the F-word ’ and other swear words . |
| 8 | ENGLAND flew to Poland yesterday with reliance placed in a defence that , like Bobby Robson , has shown a talent for confounding the critics . |
| 9 | Labour frontbenchers said they had been shown a note written by Sir Terence Heiser , Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment , to Nicholas Ridley , the then Secretary of State . |
| 10 | The opinion polls , which had shown a small move towards the Tories in the early months of 1982 , now showed a large and growing Conservative majority . |
| 11 | It has n't shown a movie for over thirty years , but the pink seashell murals , the stage , and the ‘ white ’ and ‘ coloured ’ balconies are still intact : fossils of another culture . |
| 12 | But here my fourteen-year-old daughter was shown a film about it in school . |
| 13 | When these chambers have been maintained in constant conditions , the electrical activity from slices of the SCN , but not from other regions of the brain , has shown a daily rhythm . |
| 14 | Lewis was shown a version in 1932 and admired it enormously . |
| 15 | He was shown a potion guaranteeing virility and many children , based on deer 's horn . |
| 16 | This time Allen and Dicks were cautioned , Allen fortunate not to be shown a red card as he harangued the referee . |
| 17 | The volume of beer sold through Greenall 's pubs over the last couple of months has shown a fall on 1988 levels , said the group financial director , Mr Michael Davis , as he unveiled profits up 10.5 per cent to £52million for the year to September . |
| 18 | President Bush had reason to use military force to protect Americans because thousands were scattered around Panama and Gen Noriega 's troops had shown a willingness to harass and even kill them , Mr Goldman said . |
| 19 | New Yorkers have always shown a greater genius for putting up new buildings than for repairing old ones . |
| 20 | American consumers have shown a disconcerting willingness to substitute sparkling wine for champagne , off-the-rack imitations for pricey designer clothes . |
| 21 | Mr Sher Azam , convener of the meeting and president of the Bradford Council of Mosques , said the government had shown a ‘ total disregard ’ for British Muslims when it decided to go to war . |
| 22 | The courts have shown a similar bias , though usually for a different reason . |
| 23 | Edward , according to his younger brother 's memories , had always shown a rebellious independence of spirit against domestic or external authority . |
| 24 | If you ever get the chance to go to Nazareth you will be shown a well with the sign over it , ‘ St Mary 's Well ’ . |
| 25 | Later that morning he was flown to the South West and shown a beautiful industrial site with excellent access to the adjacent port facilities . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes I know , sir , but … ‘ … but you 've shown a certain amount of keenness this last week or two , so … |
| 27 | Hindu society , therefore , has always shown a nervousness about the sexually active woman . |
| 28 | At its best the religious life for women has shown a sure and thorough knowledge of the difference between function models and role models . |
| 29 | In fact , Broderick seems to have shown a nicely calculated amount of daring in trying to pick roles that give his bland fresh-faced prettiness a spin . |
| 30 | The merchant Abudah is shown a prospect where the stones on the gold-dust ground are pearls , the flowers emeralds and the trees are made out of silver . |