Example sentences of "[noun prp] have shown " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the more the subject is forced to produce details , Loftus has shown , the more inaccurate the details become . |
| 2 | And as Brigitte Bardot has shown recently , even the glow of a new love affair can work wonders . |
| 3 | At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated , and his Helmet coin type , perhaps current from 1003 to 1009 , depicts him in armour ; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent 's Tongue , the army feared Æthel-red no less than God , and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies . |
| 4 | ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team . |
| 5 | Philip Jenkins has shown that in South Wales at the turn of the century Whig and Tory gentry were equal in terms of wealth and numbers , and further that a number of once firm Tory gentlemen converted to Whiggery after the Glorious Revolution . |
| 6 | The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad ( INBio ) in Costa Rica has shown that , together , parataxonomists and taxonomists can make astonishing progress towards an inventory of species . |
| 7 | Dr Snell has shown that when land was enclosed for arable farming , both male and female employment became less regular , especially the latter , with severe effects on family earnings . |
| 8 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 9 | Wilkinson said : ‘ I am pleased that Gary has shown his faith in the club 's future by agreeing to stay . ’ |
| 10 | While the role of small firms should not be discounted , recent work at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex has shown just how many significant innovations have come out of large companies . |
| 11 | And , despite untold pressure from within his own circle of friends and from rugby league officials , Ofahengaue has shown remarkable strength to resist the most tempting of offers . |
| 12 | Kelly has shown recently that correct calculations about the shearing strength of solids are rather complicated and that there is a good deal of variation between the theoretical shear strengths of various substances . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But one must beware of accepting such statements at their face value as evidence of deep personal belief , for such phrases are taken from books which advised people how to compose documents , and Dr Margaret Spufford has shown how rural wills in Cambridgeshire were drawn up by only a small number of scribes . |
| 15 | Many of the indicators chosen are suspect , as Macnicol has shown for earlier periods , in that they simply count contact with state agencies , and it is a commonplace observation that the poor are more likely to be in contact with social workers because they are poor ( Becker , 1988 ) ; young drug-takers in inner cities are more visible than wealthy socialites but drug-taking and drinking stretch across social groups ( O'Bryan , 1989 ; Plant , 1989 ) ; desertion of women by husbands and the choice to remain unmarried are not restricted to the poor ; and so on and so on . |
| 16 | If he is back to his best , Haydock racegoers are in for a thrilling contest , but I prefer to wait until Playschool has shown his old sparkle before backing him . |
| 17 | If he is back to his best , Haydock racegoers are in for a thrilling contest , but I prefer to wait until Playschool has shown his old sparkle before backing him . |
| 18 | Barbara Taylor has shown how women within the Owenite socialist movement in the 1830s and 1840s had struggled to advance a feminist politics through the language of radical religion . |
| 19 | ‘ Fortex has shown that it can come through a difficult trading period in excellent financial shape , ’ said Mr Austin . |
| 20 | At least one well-documented zodiac has now been claimed by its author to be a conscious fabrication , and the astrologer John Addey has shown how easy it is to ascribe the characteristics of the signs of the zodiac to places chosen at random , in his humorous example of the Cheam Zodiac . |
| 21 | Research by Morris Rosenberg has shown that " faith in people " is related to democratic and internationalist values and attitudes . |
| 22 | In the mask-like head of the figure on the extreme left , for instance , Picasso has shown an almost sculptural interest in reducing the forms of the face to their simplest component parts . |
| 23 | J. R. Lowerson has shown that Brackley was an exception in the area , since of the seventeen surrounding parishes , one had been enclosed in 1634 , and the rest between 1734 and 1808 . |
| 24 | This is not the first time Mr Gorbachev has shown his brutal streak . |
| 25 | Oliver Rackham has shown how complex traditional woodland management was , in contrast to modern forestry , in that a self-generating system was employed so that the resources of wood and timber were infinitely renewable and two types of ‘ crop ’ were taken . |
| 26 | The pattern of shareholding in companies is changing rapidly , with a declining role for individuals , but even so , Scott has shown ( 1985 , p. 77 ) that 43 out of the top 250 British firms are still controlled through personal shareholding . |
| 27 | In his cycle for Unicorn-Kanchana , Peter Hill has shown how effective a softer palette can be in such pieces . |
| 28 | H. R. Niebuhr has shown the range of thinking with regard to the relationship between Christ and culture adopted by theologians at various times ( Niebuhr 1951 ) . |
| 29 | Pat has shown the very basic applications . |
| 30 | Once again , Steffi Graf has shown herself to be the best player in the world by far — in more than one sense . |