Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] exclusively [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament was dissolved on March 16 , with the last days of business occupied almost exclusively with the Finance Bill which incorporated the fiscal measures announced in the budget . |
| 2 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |
| 3 | These were leaders who had not been subject to party screening or peer review and had succeeded almost exclusively on the strength of their appeal to mass electorates . |
| 4 | Following the exile , it should be recalled that women , for a complex of pragmatic reasons , were confined almost exclusively to the domestic realm . |
| 5 | Production of Dunlop cheese has now been commercialised in creameries and is confined almost exclusively to the islands of Arran and Islay . |
| 6 | Meaningful interaction is confined almost exclusively to the locality which creates a very contained and powerful vessel for the transmission of a local culture . |
| 7 | The silos , which were built almost exclusively for the storage of milling wheat have a capacity of 33,000 tons . |
| 8 | For men , the recent increase in incidence was seen almost exclusively among the young and middle aged and was confined to men in the most recent birth cohort ( those born since 1918 ) . |
| 9 | It was too expensive for most private individuals there to send telegrams ; the network was used almost exclusively by the authorities . |
| 10 | The young people who come into care are drawn almost exclusively from the ranks of the poor and disadvantaged and though many reasons are given for the move , frequently it is the inability of the family to cope with illness , bereavement , divorce or remarriage . |
| 11 | The tests developed by the project team were not related specifically to the curriculum operated by the schools associated with the project but they were based almost exclusively on the topics in the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 12 | Less excusably , there is a doctoral dissertation on Rameau 's orchestration based almost exclusively on the Oeuvres complètes and thus largely invalid . |
| 13 | In this stage , attention is concentrated almost exclusively on the end to be achieved … . |
| 14 | Nor , if we are willing to see our co-operative selves as other co-operators see us , should we fail to note Signor Prandini 's implied criticism , pointed though polite , of the British concept of Co-operation as restricted almost exclusively to the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 15 | Indeed , in the Old Testament , language about the Spirit is restricted almost exclusively to the area of relationship between God and man . |
| 16 | At the present time church leaders tend to be too limited in their experience and outlook , having focused almost exclusively on the fortunes of their own denomination , or on the spiritual conditions prevailing within their own country . |
| 17 | Throughout 1911 his attention was focused almost exclusively on the Balkans , to which he travelled frequently , having many friends among remote inland brigands as well as among the cream of Kemal Atatürk 's reformist movement in Constantinople . |
| 18 | The close relation between acid and duodenal ulceration was recognised in the early part of this century , and until recently , attempts to provide a cure for peptic ulcer disease have focused almost exclusively on the development of drugs and surgical procedures that inhibit or abolish gastric secretion , even though contemporary findings show that only 20–50% of DU patients actually secrete excessive amounts of acid . |
| 19 | The presence of the Pinot Blanc Vrai is almost negligible , while the Arbanne and Petit Meslier are found almost exclusively in the less favoured regions in the Aube . |
| 20 | Disconcerting but , on further reflection , hardly surprising when one bears in mind that , for more than two generations , Keynesian economics has been taught almost exclusively through the medium of the IS-LM model . |
| 21 | Historically , the plant associated most exclusively with the capital was the London rocket ( Sisymbrium irio ) . |
| 22 | Finally , the theory that attention is directed to the left or right side as a consequence of asymmetrical activation of the cerebral hemispheres ( Kinsbourne , 1970 ; 1973 ; 1975a ) predicts that in hemispherectomised patients attention should be directed almost exclusively to the side contralateral to the intact hemisphere . |
| 23 | The anthropoid coffin is associated almost exclusively with the burial vault . |
| 24 | In the years since 1980 , the lab has worked almost exclusively with the task . |
| 25 | Control over the quality of work within each classroom has until now been left almost exclusively to the headteacher with occasional support from the local and national inspectorate . |
| 26 | It is common in later Palaeozoic rocks of South Africa , peninsular India , Australia and South America , and is thought to have lived almost exclusively in the cooler areas of the supercontinent Pangaea ( p. 32 ) . |
| 27 | Nizan 's individual fate within the party was determined almost exclusively by the vagaries of the national and international politics of the time . |
| 28 | In Britain denominational planning has depended too exclusively on the ‘ geographical map ’ . |
| 29 | The fact that English judges are recruited almost exclusively from the ranks of successful practising barristers has also had the effect of narrowing considerably the background from which judges are drawn , even in comparison with the far from represen-tative magistracy . |