Example sentences of "show [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Show that they are beginning to adopt a critical stance towards some of the techniques and conventions of presentation used in non-literary and media texts . |
| 2 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 3 | Reports from the clergy in some of the affected dioceses show that they were perplexed by the variety and number of the movements emerging at this time . |
| 4 | Nos. 18–26 passed into the hands of London Transport in 1933 and their records show that they were sold to Cohens for scrapping on 17 May 1934 , Nos. 18 , 21 , 22 , 23 and 26 in Penge depôt and 20 , 24 and 25 at Fulwell , where No. 19 followed on 2 October . |
| 5 | Usually we show that we 're listening by : |
| 6 | When we add up all the indicators which show that we are moving closer to federal control , and balance them against the number which show that we are moving further away from central control , we are asking ourselves , what is the meaning of subsidiarity ? |
| 7 | When we add up all the indicators which show that we are moving closer to federal control , and balance them against the number which show that we are moving further away from central control , we are asking ourselves , what is the meaning of subsidiarity ? |
| 8 | The budgets which have just been prepared show that we are aiming to do even better in 1991 and the managing director 's reports on page 2 endorse this optimistic approach . |
| 9 | Unless we show that we are determined to proceed with the deployment of cruise and Pershing missiles , there will be no chance of progress in the arms control talks . |
| 10 | All other sources used by d'Indy show that it is intended for strings alone . |
| 11 | Pay good attention and show that you are listening by nodding and looking into the other person 's eyes , but not staring . |
| 12 | Rhetorical questions can be a good way of signalling the DIALOGIC nature of your writing ( i.e. that it is " like a dialogue " ) : they show that you are engaging with your reader , by anticipating her or his responses and questions as you go along . |
| 13 | ‘ The facts show that he was helping himself . ’ |
| 14 | Eliot 's spelling of ‘ Gillen ’ and his misremembering of Howitt 's surname show that he was recalling material from his past . |
| 15 | She argued that , if she could show that what was regarded as normal behaviour in the United States in fact varies from one society to another , then it followed that such behaviour could not be the result of people 's biological characteristics but rather of their culture . |
| 16 | I 'm not asking that it transfer its estate , I 'm asking that it should make a contribution because it will then show that we 're committed to this very important initiative . |
| 17 | Mrs Costello-Roberts said she was ‘ disappointed to a certain degree by the decision ’ but she added : ‘ The fact that the vote of the judges was only very slightly against us does show that we were taken very seriously . ’ |
| 18 | Wendy Costello-Roberts , who brought the case , said she was disappointed , but added : ‘ The fact that the vote of the judges was only very slightly against us does show that we were taken very seriously . ’ |
| 19 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
| 20 | Woodworking businesses still have some way to go before they can show that they are controlling the hardwood dust emissions from machinery . |
| 21 | The aim is to identify companies which can show that they are taking positive steps to improve their ways towards the environment , as well as to raise the level of debate about green issues . |
| 22 | In order to establish that its terms were incorporated into a particular contract , a business must show that they were accepted by , or on behalf of , the other contracting party . |
| 23 | This means that such extracts are protected provided the defendant can show that they were published in good faith and without malice . |
| 24 | And I think the most disgusting thing of all is that Alan Sillitoe does n't show that he 's disgusted by his young man . |
| 25 | If A had an honest doubt whether there was a contract at all between B and C it has been held that this would provide a good defence but if the doubt is whether A 's rights or C's under two inconsistent agreements should prevail and A chooses to adopt a course which on one view of the law will undoubtedly interfere with C 's rights , it has been said that he must at least show that he was advised and honestly believed that he was entitled to take that course . |
| 26 | ‘ The report will show that you were examining one of the pod batteries when it malfunctioned . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It shows that ye 're getting better . ’ |
| 28 | However , even a rudimentary enquiry into the problems discussed above shows that they are connected in obvious ways . |
| 29 | To think they are , shows that they are governed not by the Spirit but by the attitudes and outlook of their unregenerate days ( 3:1,3 ) . |
| 30 | Analysis of the recordings made from Aplysia motor neurons following sensory stimulation shows that they are responding both directly , monosynaptically , and polysynaptically , by way of interneurons . |