Example sentences of "have been quick [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sanpro industry as a whole has been quick to wheel out the public relations machinery , and they 've gone to great lengths to reassure women that there really is n't any danger at all . |
| 2 | But despite their limitations , circulation measures can provide librarians with a good deal of valuable information for the assessment of stock and user needs , and the promoters of automated circulation systems have been quick to point out the facilities such systems offer for a closer analysis of detail . |
| 3 | Manufacturers have been quick to point out the drink 's advantages over ordinary milk : it contains no cholesterol , has a low fat content and is high in alkali . |
| 4 | Proponents of the view that Keynesian stabilization policies are futile have been quick to point out the key role that wage and price rigidity play in justifying such policies , and the need for advocates of such policies to provide some theory of why prices should be rigid in the way they claim they are . |
| 5 | Sociologists have been quick to point out the obvious absurdity of this — without , of course , seeing the nonsensicality of their own position — and have rightly observed that no one is born into a vacuum , that cultures and the individuals within them vary , and that individual psychology is powerfully influenced by traditional and cultural factors of which a purely individualistic approach can not take account . |