Example sentences of "shown [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But so far neither has shown the tremendous flair with top-spin attacking that made them a major force in the world championships in Dortmund only seven months ago .
2 The parents ' solicitor said that the Dewsbury parents ' action had ‘ shown the tremendous value of parents fighting for their rights ’ .
3 This work has shown the gradual deterioration of performance as random additions are made to a file , and the marked acceleration of this process as records are allocated to independent overflow .
4 They have n't shown the political will to sort out the problem — there has been an element of divide and rule .
5 HSE studies have shown the actual cost of the incidents ranging up to 27 times the insured cost .
6 To a tenth-century man or woman ( and Karl Leyser has shown the great importance of nunneries in the aristocratic social order of tenth-century Saxony ) , as to a modern monk or nun , the raison d'être of monasteries was their communal worship , their liturgy .
7 Several attempts to carry out such studies , however , have shown the great logistic difficulties entailed , which may prevent such a study in the future .
8 We were shown the great marble slab covering Arthur 's coffin and the chalice well which provided water for the brothers .
9 But his recent form has shown the Belgian-bred gelding to be back to his best , and he must be favourite to be the first horse to take the World Cup for a third time .
10 Many of the characters considered had been shown by other workers to be of selective importance in white clover or another species of Trifolium ( e.g. Cahn & Harper ( 1976b ) had presented evidence suggesting that sheep selected between leaf marks ; Dirzo & Harper ( 1982a ) and others have shown that slugs select between cyanogenic and acyanogenic forms ; Black ( 1960 ) had shown the selective value of long petioles ) .
11 It was then shown the correct diagnosis in each case , broken into five categories , ranging from flatulence to angina .
12 Politically the situation was contentious and Rhee had not shown the correct touch in tackling domestic problems .
13 Mansell was shown the black flag three times after being disqualified for reversing his Ferrari after overshooting his pit during a scheduled stop to change tyres .
14 Several researchers report similar results in particular sectors , though they have not shown the complete picture .
15 THE MINEMA IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE makes a welcome reopening with La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , the shorter version of Jacques Rivette 's splendid La Belle Noiseuse which runs for four hours and which we were shown the other day .
16 The following day , we were shown the new Flying Kilometre course at Arc 2000 .
17 I even heard one supervisor , on being shown the new radio equipment on Venturous , remark that of course it was all very nice , but he did n't think the Waterguard Service was quite ready for radio yet .
18 The shape of the budget line changes to 175 ; after point 7 the individual can consume more of good X , but to do so she must give up some quantity of good Y. In the example shown the new welfare maximum for the individual is on the corner point , 7 .
19 They had listed all of the places they would have to pass on their way to the Fire Court ; they had shown the tiny villages and the Wolfwood and the forks in the road and the long flat road down to Reflection 's country and the glittering decadent Fire Court .
20 Led by Professor Yu Yongten , chancellor of the university , they were shown the dairy-research unit , the recently-installed animal-metabolism unit , work on muscle conformation in sheep and research on flax-retting .
21 An archaeological excavation is being carried out this summer to reveal part of the abbey 's latrine block and great drain , and Friends will be shown the excavated area as well as artefacts and fine stonework found on the site during previous excavations .
22 In the event sequence is shown the long-term mean , the linear trend , the well-defined cycle , and the intermittent signal so that a typical sample period as shown will produce statistics which are biased with respect to the whole sequence .
23 Ahmed Deedat told thousands of Muslims who filled the Albert Hall in central London that if they had only shown the non-Muslim majority that Mr Rushdie had grievously insulted the Queen , Margaret Thatcher and all white women in The Satanic Verses , then the author would have been condemned by all of society and the book banned .
24 Although only one sequence for MUP and A2U is shown the urinary proteins are encoded by a gene family expressing at least seven closely related forms of the protein .
25 The only other element in there , Chair , is we , we 've shown the specific grant coming in , er , in the figure that it 's been announced .
26 Photographic evidence , film and documents have shown the appalling suffering routinely inflicted on over three million animals every year in Britain alone .
27 When people were shown APR to start with , and then additionally shown the total cost of credit , they more often switched to a shorter repayment period ( if they switched at all — and differences were very small anyway ) .
28 Our younger child was bitterly disappointed when shown the discreet little warning notices .
29 The Gulf War and its aftermath have shown the crucial need for stronger and more effective world institutions capable of upholding international law and enforcing respect for human rights .
30 We see our own dissatisfactions , our own pointless , unfocused longings in her and we are forced , because we are shown the terrible thing that happens to her , to question aspects of ourselves which might otherwise remain unexamined .
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