"It showed him to be..." x "It showed that he was..."

As frases "It showed that he was..." e "It showed him to be..." têm o mesmo sentido? Nunca tinha visto essa segunda forma antes, até encontrar o texto abaixo:

But one of them had asked me a very simple question, which showed him to be on the level of intelligence of one of our five-year-old children. He had asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm!