Sentence examples for took to show from inspiring English sources

Hayek refused to come up with any policy option, preferring to trust the market, however long it took to show its self-correcting tendency.

There once was a time in the industry when a fur coat or a Harry Winston pendant was all it took to show your love and support.

Demonstrating beyond reasonable doubt that any single species is extinct is arduous and painstaking (think how long it took to show – to most people, at least – that Loch Ness probably does not harbour a large monster).

"I can't imagine having dealt with the Berlin planning department if I hadn't once covered a city planning department," she said of the wrangling it took to show the work on Bebelplatz.

In his final work he describes experiments on the flexibility of earthworm behavior in manipulating leaves, which he took to show considerable intelligence (Darwin 1881; see also Crist 2002).

The steps European nations took to show not only their military superiority but the violent subjugation of African people, included taking the skulls and skeletons of deceased warriors, and transporting them to Europe for the purpose of study and exhibition in museums.

For some reason she anointed me with her doting approval and took to showing me around the city.

And how long does Pront take to show all that?

Almost without exception, everybody wanted to have their picture taken to show their plight.

There was an account of psychology that was taken to show man as irredeemably selfish.

Yet in other pictures Toohey takes to show boredom, there is room for disagreement.