Example sentences of "[prep] carefully [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workmen 's dialogue , which he co-authored , though filled with pieces of carefully observed slang , is none the less stilted and sometimes too obviously theatrical . |
| 2 | The car drew to a halt by a green sward of carefully tended lawn which ran down from an impressive-looking office building towards the river . |
| 3 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 4 | The results underline how essential it is to scrutinize the case for publishing exhibition catalogues ( as opposed to free handouts ) very carefully , and to take into account factors such as the saleability of the catalogue after the exhibition is over , and the importance of carefully directed promotion of publications through mail order . |
| 5 | But that kind of carefully calibrated escalation could easily get out of hand . |
| 6 | Although an enormous amount of carefully buried crime can be unearthed by this liberal ‘ scientific ’ excavation work , we will still be denied an adequate view of those whose crimes and victimizing behaviours cause us most harm , injury , and deprivation . |
| 7 | When the conversation deserved to be punctuated she threw back her head and gave a perfectly proportioned peal of carefully modulated laughter . |
| 8 | His essentially pre-ecclesiological manner was given a variety and solidity by the use of carefully copied detail , and some of his later churches of the 1840s , such as Armitage Bridge near Huddersfield ( 1847–8 ) , were based on a system of proportions derived from medieval Gothic buildings , a subject on which he published a paper in the Builder in 1847 . |
| 9 | A couple of carefully chosen make-up items will see you through the day with confidence . |
| 10 | Provided your building comes with an adequate floor , you can stand this on a row of substantial timbers , or on a number of carefully laid paving slabs . |
| 11 | They had returned noisily to life after the journey , consoled by spreading the contents of their suitcases , which always looked to her like carefully collected rubbish , old dresses bought from barrows , ratty bits of fur , crumpled and disorderly history notes , about their new quarters . |
| 12 | Restorations should not be undertaken for aesthetic reasons alone , but only for carefully controlled maintenance , because of the inherent possibilities of damage in any restoration . |
| 13 | Following on from my recent committment to investment , I would like to nominate the Scottish Cycling Council , of which I am the Treasurer , for a donation from Ethical Investors Group , or , better still , sponsorship on a regular basis in return for carefully targeted publicity for EIG . |
| 14 | Recognising that while there is a place for carefully programmed input , we endeavour to emphasise active independent learning through direct experience : for example through business enterprise , designing products for and in local companies , work experience , residential experience , community experience , family placements , recreational activities , which we hope will be recreative in the fullest sense . |
| 15 | When ‘ white spot breaks out in the aquarium this species , like most other rasboras , suffers quite quickly from infestation , and rapid treatment with carefully calculated dosage is essential to save losses . |
| 16 | ‘ Cheryl 's nearly hysterical , ’ she offered , with carefully calculated innocence . |
| 17 | With carefully suppressed excitement , she waited for Buzz to arrive . |
| 18 | The soap-opera manages to tell a great story within carefully controlled vocabulary and structural limits . |
| 19 | Gassendi 's empiricist views on the derivation of our ideas from sense-experience , on natural philosophy and its foundation in carefully considered observation , and his stress on the explanatory value of Epicurean atomism , were already well known to Hobbes and others when they were formally introduced into England via the publication , in 1654 , of Walter Charleton 's Physiologia Epicuro-gassendo-Charltonia : a Fabrick of Science Natural upon the Hypothesis of Atoms , Founded by Epicurus , Repaired by Petrus Gassendus , Augmented by Walter Charleton . |
| 20 | In carefully designed field trials , he will explore whether the engineered plants behave normally or abnormally towards their pathogens , competitors , herbivores and the physical environment . |
| 21 | Equally his theatrical gifts were appreciated , for he conveyed the air of acting a role in carefully staged manner at each of his formal encounters or luncheon engagements . |
| 22 | The difference of approach illustrated here between the apparently hard-working development from carefully formulated theory towards new ideas to be tested where there are gaps in the subject on the one hand and this last-mentioned almost accidental following-up of ideas that just seem to occur out of the blue , would , on the face of things , seem to make it difficult to use two such disparate methods of enquiry in one discipline . |
| 23 | Considering he had been in possession of a thousand a year from carefully invested family money , a very good unearned income in 1925 , he had not done well . |
| 24 | Most plans can benefit from carefully considered change and this plan is no different in this respect . |
| 25 | It has become increasingly important to carefully compare interest rates and terms offered by the various lenders on their myriad of products , particularly while base rates are high and lenders are in fierce competition to attract the relatively few people willing to brave the stagnant property market . |
| 26 | MARKETING MAGIC Balbirnie House , Fife , established more than 50% occupancy during its first 18 months , due to carefully targeted marketing |
| 27 | His theories are based on clinical observations , and not on carefully controlled experimentation or systematic statistical comparison of groups and control groups . |
| 28 | However , there is little evidence to suggest that these give better estimates of opinions which are any more accurate for these purposes than those yielded by carefully chosen quota samples . |
| 29 | By carefully examining Figure 4.6 you can see that on the African Plate the relationship is , in fact , the opposite of that predicted with several hot spots located in areas of low lithospheric vulnerability . |
| 30 | Only when Brearley demonstrated that the problem could be solved by carefully controlled heat treatment did the stainless-steel knife become widely used . |