Example sentences of "firmly [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her nose was neat , small and short , and her mouth full-lipped and firmly formed above a tapered but resolute chin . |
| 2 | Many of the paintings displayed here are small in scale and are firmly situated in a tradition of seascape painting which includes Turner and Monet . |
| 3 | Indeed , this fact is more firmly registered in the layman 's mind than any other , and if he or she were asked to give a name to some species , it would probably be either Tyrannosaurus Rex ( wrongly believed to be the known largest ) , Brontosaurus or Diplodocus , the three most often mentioned . |
| 4 | For this reason , these small pieces of yarn can be a hazard to birds and small animals — I have recently found a young bird firmly fastened to a branch by a very short length of yarn ( not mine I hope ! ) . |
| 5 | When George Ill and his supporters questioned the local authority of the Duke of Richmond by attempting to remove him from the lord-lieutenancy in 1779 , they were firmly repulsed by a well-organised but short-lived local movement for ‘ reform ’ . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the canopies are locked by an odd-shaped chunky steel key , there is only one , and it stays firmly zipped in the pocket of Harry 's red flying overalls . |
| 7 | ‘ Nush ’ has now been firmly adjusted with the help of Leftfield and those top Zoomsters , Dave Wesson and Billy Nasty ( Herbal Infusion , Acorn Arts , St Etienne mixes etc ) . |
| 8 | But someone had his weight firmly pressed into the small of her back , pinning her like a butterfly in a case . |
| 9 | The English which is to be formulated as the major instrument for achieving the more general policy goals turns out to consist of systematic inculcation of linguistic practices , firmly aligned to a very specific sense of Englishness . |
| 10 | However , prospects of an imminent review of Japan 's nuclear policy were firmly dismissed by a government spokesman who said on Nov. 16 that there were no immediate plans to halt plutonium shipments from Europe . |
| 11 | He was driven into something ‘ like Berkleyanism ’ ; and he took to feeling that there was no harm in positing the existence of some form of Absolute Spirit , so long as this was firmly distinguished from the God ‘ of popular religion ’ . |
| 12 | The ‘ baddies ’ are firmly distinguished from the ‘ goodies ’ . |
| 13 | Firmly distanced from the levers of power , the liberal parties were unable to carry conviction among their potential constituents . |
| 14 | Coventry four-piece the Ludicrous Lollipops compete in the same arena as End 's Atomic Dustbin but do so with a large amount of panache and with fingers firmly placed on a bouncing , glistening pop pulse . |
| 15 | Five Thirty have managed to harness themselves into a sound that nods towards the '60s but keeps its arse firmly placed on a '90s seat and its head ensconced in a pretty rock 'n' roll street attitude . |
| 16 | Coventry four-piece the Ludicrous Lollipops compete in the same arena as End 's Atomic Dustbin but do so with a large amount of panache and with fingers firmly placed on a bouncing , glistening pop pulse . |
| 17 | Five Thirty have managed to harness themselves into a sound that nods towards the '60s but keeps its arse firmly placed on a '90s seat and its head ensconced in a pretty rock 'n' roll street attitude . |
| 18 | For those who prefer to keep their feet firmly placed on the ground , Mar Estang also has a small weight training centre , as well as three tennis courts . |
| 19 | In document-based information systems , user input is minimized with the emphasis firmly placed on the retrieval of documents as opposed to users seeking to satisfy subjective needs . |
| 20 | Jorge was urged in beside Mitch and Maggie was firmly placed beside the count . |
| 21 | His feet were firmly placed upon the road to power when he uncovered a magic artefact , the Crown of Sorcery , in the subterranean ruins of the daemon-haunted city of Todtheim on the edge of the Northern Wastes . |
| 22 | The additional Celtic ( and gypsy-like ) lore he draws upon to fill out a flimsy plot is firmly placed within the suburban London life between Clapham Junction and Richmond Park . |
| 23 | Garrulous and expansive , Mick Clarke is firmly ensconced in a modest terraced house in West London where he is A&R Director of Virgin 's 10 Records . |
| 24 | The only route had lain through Marissa Kenton , who had still been firmly ensconced in the London office . |
| 25 | Finally , both health authorities and local authorities are firmly committed to a policy of supporting older people in their own homes for as long as possible . |
| 26 | Dorothea Beale , the Principal of the first proprietary girls ' school in England , Cheltenham Ladies College , was firmly committed to a separate curriculum for girls and declared that her aim was to train ‘ girls so that they may best perform that subordinate part in the world to which , I believe , they have been called ’ . |
| 27 | And the club is also firmly committed to the next generation . |
| 28 | The inclusion of this statement suggests that , while the theology faculties of Oxford and Cambridge universities remained firmly committed to the doctrines of predestination and assurance , some other Jacobeans , including perhaps James I himself , believed that the more extreme implications of these beliefs needed to be played down in order to make them more palatable to the laity . |
| 29 | Senior officials are firmly committed to the utilitarian view : ‘ treating discharges alike in terms of … the quality of the discharge , as distinct from the effect on the environment ’ , said one , ‘ is absolute nonsense . ’ |
| 30 | Over a six-year period the board membership moved from a minority of three people who supported the change to a ‘ critical mass ’ of individuals who were firmly committed to the change and concerned only about how to implement it . |