Example sentences of "[vb past] shown [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she 'd shown an interest . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Before the strict selection for black , all the Welsh types had shown a great variety of coat colours and patterns . |
| 8 | Possibly one of the earliest was Miss Robb who had shown a keen interest in the purchase of a new harmonium for the Sunday School in the wooden Tabernacle . |
| 9 | Suppose previous research had shown a positive bivariate relationship between low social status jobs and absenteeism . |
| 10 | For many of us it was a huge disappointment ; a paradox , too , that a people who had proved themselves historically and geographically over and over again , who had shown a rare talent for managing the affairs of other people , should choose to chicken out when it came to managing their own . |
| 11 | And it seemed to Dalgliesh an ironic twist of fate that it should be he , whom Berowne had shown a disposition to trust , who should now be travelling to begin that inexorable process of violation . |
| 12 | Of course Cagney was a marvellous showman and that was precisely the point , for audiences had shown a predilection for zest and sharpness and a new kind of urban charm and Hollywood was quite prepared to exploit these qualities in its own way . |
| 13 | And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) . |
| 14 | As a young radio announcer he had shown a talent for communication that he had subsequently built on during his years in Hollywood and it was also during this period that politics became a consuming interest . |
| 15 | Mailer 's press and public appearances over the past few years had shown a tendency , much like everyone else 's , to be a bit — well — paparazzi -orientated . |
| 16 | A few of the divisions were in the battalion phase of training and marksmanship had shown a level of attainment second only to the United States . |
| 17 | Butler had shown a keen personal interest in the preparation of the White Paper which underwent at least four drafts before it reached the finished version . |
| 18 | In seeing the importance of La Rochelle Richard had shown a good , if over-ambitious , grasp of strategy , but he was still no match for his father . |
| 19 | But the King of France had shown a contemptuous disregard for Henry 's complaints . |
| 20 | Fiver , as he listened , had shown a mixture of intense absorption and incredulous horror . |
| 21 | Public attention in the case grew , and many believed that the two men were unfairly tried ; the judge had shown a contempt for foreigners and their anarchist background had clearly counted against them . |
| 22 | Virgin had shown a profit of more than £11m in the last year . |
| 23 | Until this point , the structure of government outside Whitehall had been merely a matter which worried civil servants who wished to see their departmental policies executed more rapidly and efficiently , though some Liberals , some academics and sections of the ‘ quality press ’ had shown a passing interest in the subject . |
| 24 | She was good fun to be with and easy to talk to , and in the short time he 'd known her she had shown a ready sense of humour . |
| 25 | Early check-ups in England had shown a normal pregnancy and she was looking forward to being able to indulge in her favourite French foods . |
| 26 | Actual evidence was still a bit short on the ground ( burning the vicious letter to Jacqui and the Sweet photographs had shown a regrettable lack of detective instinct ) . |
| 27 | The term ‘ Cubism ’ had become common usage in the press after the opening of the Salon des Indépendants , although Apollinaire himself had referred to Metzinger , who had shown a painting directly influenced by Picasso , as ‘ the only adept of Cubism strictly speaking ’ . |
| 28 | At first it had seemed that the damage was slight , just a lot of pain and some bruising , and even after X-rays had shown a number of broken bones there had still been no reason to suppose that he would n't heal . |
| 29 | As early as the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. the Greek philosophers and historians had shown a keen interest in foreign doctrines and customs and had been inclined to recognize some value in them . |
| 30 | Recent opinion polls had shown a dramatic decline in public support for the union , as it had become identified with government policy . |