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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an experiment shows/proves/demonstrates sth
▪ His experiment showed that lightning was a kind of electricity.
▪ The experiment proved that fabrics treated with the chemical are much less likely to catch fire.
demonstrate mastery of sth (=show mastery of something)
▪ During the talk, he demonstrated his mastery of the issues.
demonstrate/show competence
▪ Students have to demonstrate competence in maths and science.
illustrate/demonstrate a point
▪ A simple example will illustrate the point.
show/demonstrate commitment
▪ Throughout her life she demonstrated her deep commitment to the needs of the poor.
show/demonstrate the ability to do sth
▪ a chance for candidates to demonstrate their abilities
show/demonstrate your knowledge
▪ The test should be an opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge.
show/express/demonstrate your solidarity (with sb)
▪ I come before you today to express my solidarity with the people of New York.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Over time action plans to remediate would also demonstrate commitment to minimise risk.
▪ In La Strada, Fellini and Rota also demonstrate the poetic power of film music.
▪ New Zealand stations also demonstrate the manner in which, through repeated renewal, station buildings mirror the development of the country.
▪ Unfortunately the maquila project also demonstrates that rarely could or did the government actually reorient the conditions of capitalist development.
▪ This also demonstrates the rehabilitation expenditure and incidence in North Side neighbourhoods and census tracts.
▪ But, Sakaida noted, he also demonstrated compassion for his opponents.
▪ We also demonstrate that, contrary to conventional thoughts, there is no evidence of compromise to patient safety.
▪ It also demonstrated how volatile the presidential race is, with change an ever-present participant.
clearly
▪ Thus, together, they demonstrate clearly some of the tensions within modern views about land and society.
▪ The debacle of the 1971-3 property boom clearly demonstrated the significant extent to which city development was impacted by national economic policy.
▪ Children in primary school playgrounds clearly demonstrate an instinctive pleasure in rhythm, pattern and rhyme.
▪ This study demonstrates clearly the way many therapists are influenced by their colleagues to look for the abnormal.
▪ This clearly demonstrates the existence of a scalar curvature singularity on this hypersurface.
▪ They can, as all the fathers in this book so clearly demonstrate.
▪ The comparison of the effective exchange rate and actual rates clearly demonstrates the value and necessity for a weighted exchange rate.
▪ Along with excellent historical research, the benefits of science and technology to society were clearly demonstrated.
how
▪ We need to demonstrate how wrong they are.
▪ Pacino demonstrates how well he can play a very old man.
▪ The following section will demonstrate how the drug careers of the interviewees developed following this initial stage.
▪ Gourd artist Alice Hunter of Tavares will teach pine-needle weaving, demonstrating how to decorate rims of gourds with pine needles.
▪ That was a huge overstatement, but it at least demonstrates how widespread the discourse of political radicalism had become.
▪ She held them up to the light and spread her fingers inside to demonstrate how sheer they were.
▪ In this first session she demonstrated how she nagged him and went on and on trying to get the response she wanted.
▪ Here are some examples to demonstrate how badly some people write resumes.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ His question-answering demonstrated an analytical ability, and respect for the questioner and for his audience.
▪ Experiments have demonstrated the ability to reproduce classical conditioning phenomena and robot control simulations.
▪ Reservoirs, wells and canals demonstrate the ability to regulate water supply.
▪ And both boys and girls with involved fathers demonstrate a greater ability to take initiative and direct themselves.
▪ Compulsory competitive tendering will oblige local authorities to bring in managers who demonstrate their ability to deliver the best services to tenants.
▪ I had to demonstrate that I had ability.
▪ More techniques are taught and there is ample opportunity to demonstrate your ability.
▪ By tying knots we demonstrate our knowledge and ability to deal with the powers of the world.
case
▪ The evidence from the case studies demonstrates that managers did not respond to market signals in simplistic ways.
▪ More recent cases demonstrate how the courts generally point to a number of factors in deeming incompetency.
▪ The case demonstrates the interlocking nature of rights, interests and obligations.
▪ These cases demonstrate that social care planning involves far more than slotting in occasional services piece meal, as they are available.
▪ It also reinforces his case by demonstrating the implications of not giving him the cash that he needs.
▪ The C.E. G.B. case demonstrates that consent will not always protect against possible criminal charges being brought.
▪ Each of the cases here demonstrates several aspects of these requirements.
commitment
▪ Over time action plans to remediate would also demonstrate commitment to minimise risk.
▪ You have to demonstrate some commitment to society.
▪ It is the Kate which demonstrates the commitment to realism of the film planners.
▪ They wanted to see a positive statement from the Government which demonstrated our commitment to the future of the railways.
▪ These three young men have demonstrated a personal commitment and sacrifice which inspired them to attempt this daunting journey with enthusiasm.
▪ He or she also needs to demonstrate commitment to curriculum and pastoral development. 8.
▪ He had also demonstrated this commitment by appointing a dually qualified teacher-librarian as a Scale One probationer in charge of the library.
▪ Not only does this demonstrate a poor commitment to oneness, it is also very poor leadership technique.
example
▪ These examples demonstrate that it is absurd to say that the Cox Report does not advocate the teaching of grammar.
▪ One example demonstrated at a news conference would require spray cans to be plugged in.
▪ These examples demonstrate a comprehensive basis for further development and applications, including standard titrations in industry.
▪ Here are some examples to demonstrate how badly some people write resumes.
▪ She takes a number of specific examples, aiming to demonstrate the extent to which usage and contextualisation determine meaning.
▪ Even if she were replaced, her example demonstrates that party identification is not the only key to a clean Justice Department.
▪ The following examples demonstrate this to some extent.
▪ Most of the examples demonstrate how power bases flowing from personality served to fuel strategies in all three success categories.
experiment
▪ An additional experiment demonstrated that the smell of mothballs had the same effect.
▪ One experiment demonstrated reducing an 8-bit gray-scale image into 1 bit per pixel.
▪ The standard experiment to demonstrate the inductive signal from the vegetal region makes use of the animal cap.
▪ Nothing could satisfy the naturalists but an experiment, one demonstrating that the sexiness of sons drove the evolution of an ornament.
▪ There is another experiment which demonstrates the presence of factors in cells that turn on specific genes.
▪ At his laboratories Wednesday, Gray conducted an experiment that graphically demonstrated the differences in insulation.
▪ There have been many experiments demonstrating the validity of this principle and exploring detailed variables such as the timing and quality of feedback.
▪ The Hawthorne experiments demonstrated that work and worker / manager relationships were more complicated than that.
fact
▪ But its greater underlying significance is demonstrated by the fact that it, too, has been strongly opposed by Yard conservatives.
▪ But clustering of the orbits of comets and asteroids is a demonstrated fact.
▪ First, to argue that each party must trust the other does not demonstrate that each in fact does so.
▪ But the social tact of the Masai was most impressively demonstrated by the fact that they rarely asked for anything.
▪ She has demonstrated a wellknown fact about physical punishment - it can lead to avoidance.
▪ Traditionally its importance is demonstrated by the fact that it underpinned Gloucester's usurpation and his brief reign.
▪ The continued competitiveness of Autocover is clearly demonstrated by the fact that 1,021 members arranged new Autocover policies during 1992.
▪ All of these initiatives demonstrate the fact that the need to pool resources is spurring the library community to greater collaborative efforts.
importance
▪ This demonstrates the immense importance of the detector in the overall performance of the zoned system.
▪ The transition will demonstrate to individuals the importance and value of periodic re-direction in their lives.
▪ Report on the potential of a short video to demonstrate the importance of accuracy in collecting road accident information.
▪ The comparison of these few-country studies demonstrates the importance of case selection and unit of analysis for drawing inferences.
▪ We are seeing a great cultural change among those companies who are demonstrating the importance and benefits of total quality management.
▪ They demonstrated the importance of early socialisation for the development of social and mental skills in the individual.
▪ This demonstrates clearly the importance of the two leading companies in their fight for market share.
▪ Yet 1857 had also demonstrated the full strategic importance of railways and their role in maintaining future order.
need
▪ Straight forward directions can also demonstrate the need for change.
▪ The generalized assertion of privilege must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial.
▪ If you demonstrate the need, the Government irrespective of party will be forced to pay up.
▪ But to get the revival off the ground, the pioneers in the 17305 had to demonstrate a need in the colonies.
▪ Both offerings demonstrate the need for sin to be dealt with objectively, and give prominence to the use of the blood.
▪ Which demonstrates our need of a sense of history: we need it to know what real injustice looked like.
▪ To Mosley, the war had brought an end to traditional party politics and had demonstrated the need fur central economic planning.
▪ This study demonstrated the need to do more careful appraisals of anthropometric measurements on a regularly scheduled basis.
opportunity
▪ Indeed they made a significant contribution to the life of the city and took every opportunity to demonstrate their existence.
▪ At a recent luncheon held in her honor here, she had every opportunity to demonstrate her kindness.
▪ The suspect has little opportunity for demonstrating his or her innocence against any one of a medley of permissive street powers.
▪ Projects provide the student with the opportunity to demonstrate personal initiative.
▪ They also represent opportunities to demonstrate good leadership.
▪ More techniques are taught and there is ample opportunity to demonstrate your ability.
▪ The police had made one mistake too many in this case and would be given no further opportunities to demonstrate their incompetence.
▪ Recording of activities provides the student with the opportunity to demonstrate how key factors are influencing the conduct of the investigation.
power
▪ The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the power of this cumulative selection as a fundamentally nonrandom process.
▪ In La Strada, Fellini and Rota also demonstrate the poetic power of film music.
▪ It certainly demonstrates the power of conjugation and provides a definite guide for further puzzles of this type.
▪ Joe and Helyne Victor have also demonstrated parent power in their own family and to this entire business.
▪ The hub system has demonstrated the power of networks, where bigger is better.
▪ Worldwide networking is finally demonstrating the power of collaboration between humans and machines.
▪ A woman who holds both of these in balance demonstrates the sanctifying power of differentiation.
▪ Any manic, cleared, seemed to demonstrate far more actual power and energy than before he was cleared.
result
▪ Our results demonstrate that these systems are genuinely 3-D superconductors as opposed to lower-dimensional or granular superconductors.
▪ Numerous studies of the results of ballot initiatives demonstrate the obvious: Money is a big factor in their outcome.
▪ These results are demonstrated in Figures and.
▪ At that time the Conservative majority over all other parties exceeded 130 so the result demonstrated a major back-bench rebellion.
skill
▪ At least 30 craftspeople will be demonstrating their skills and selling their wares, all beautifully sited in marquees on the lawns.
▪ In particular, he declared, Greenspan has demonstrated skill in adjusting interest rates.
▪ Worm-lions, however, also demonstrate another technical skill.
▪ Harry Dodson demonstrates the skills of a Victorian head gardener.
▪ An old acquaintance visiting from California once asked to borrow my Teflon skillet to demonstrate his culinary skills.
▪ All pupils had seen Prestel demonstrated in their information skills course.
▪ An experienced nurse should demonstrate a new nursing skill before the learner attempts it herself.
▪ Talk to our experts from around the world who will be demonstrating their skills in the beauty of working with wood.
study
▪ The evidence from the case studies demonstrates that managers did not respond to market signals in simplistic ways.
▪ But, as careful studies demonstrate, entrepreneurs do not seek risks, they seek opportunities.
▪ Research studies demonstrated back in the 1970s the fact that exhaust emissions contained dangerous toxins, in particular lead.
▪ This study demonstrated the need to do more careful appraisals of anthropometric measurements on a regularly scheduled basis.
▪ Many studies stop at demonstrating double dissociations.
▪ Several studies have demonstrated that sperm exposed to caffeine swim faster and more energetically than normal.
▪ However, this initial, albeit restricted, study has demonstrated the usefulness of vitrinite reflectance data in other than strictly maturation-related applications.
▪ This study demonstrates clearly the way many therapists are influenced by their colleagues to look for the abnormal.
use
▪ The rose gardens demonstrate the use of carpeting varieties and of the miniature kinds as tub plants.
▪ His own experience would enable him to demonstrate the use of the breathing apparatus, and he volunteered to go down.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A trainer came in to demonstrate how the new computer system worked.
▪ Aerobics instructors should always demonstrate each new movement first.
▪ Brenda wanted to demonstrate her sympathy in a practical way.
▪ Here are some examples that demonstrate how badly some students write their resumés.
▪ His commitment to the company is demonstrated by his work on the project.
▪ I'm afraid this whole episode demonstrates that we have become less compassionate as a society.
▪ If you still don't understand, Marcia will be happy to demonstrate.
▪ Sloan demonstrated impressive leadership in building a company that took employees' needs into account.
▪ The assessment center gives each applicant the opportunity to demonstrate whether they are suited to the work.
▪ The new law was intended to demonstrate the government's concern for the lowest paid workers.
▪ The President is anxious to demonstrate that he has a strong foreign policy.
▪ The ski instructor began by demonstrating the correct way to turn.
▪ The studies demonstrate a clear link between smoking and heart disease.
▪ Thousands of people demonstrated outside the parliament building last night.
▪ Thousands of workers and students demonstrated against US involvement in the war.
▪ Try to round off your answer by demonstrating how your old job has prepared you to do the job you are applying for.
▪ You've got to be able to demonstrate to people that the union can help in these cases.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A long-range effort from Eyjolfur Sverrisson was parried by Lukic and Walter demonstrated his predatory instincts ruthlessly inside the box.
▪ But leadership, like art, can be demonstrated.
▪ He will also have demonstrated his willingness to leave a marriage.
▪ Joe and Helyne Victor have also demonstrated parent power in their own family and to this entire business.
▪ More than a decade of performance and change has demonstrated a remarkably consistent, if counterintuitive, phenomenon.
▪ Or perhaps the don't knows didn't know where to demonstrate their indecision.
▪ That this substance is divine and intelligent is demonstrated by the orderliness of the universe.
▪ The Soviets had demonstrated unsuspected scientific and engineering skills.