Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cautioned museums not to embrace wholly mass media which ‘ simplify and cheapen ’ the experience of art , and declared the museum 's main purpose is not preservation , but ‘ cultivation of the human spirit ’ . |
| 2 | Rowntree 's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth . |
| 3 | It should be said , incidentally , that the remastering of the original 78s has , without affecting the overall frequency range , virtually eliminated their surface noise and produced remarkably quiet backgrounds : the only exception is the Prokofiev sonata ( which Horowitz introduced the USA ) , where the 1945 recording ( the earliest here ) is also more resonant and in which , just occasionally , a little to much pedal is used : the tremendous drive of his rhythm nevertheless makes for a compelling performance . |
| 4 | Indeed , it seems to be a general rule that organisms acquire new capacities by modifying existing structures rather than by inventing wholly new ones . |
| 5 | Individual psychological treatments entailing long sessions with any kind of therapist seem of limited value in general practice and make little economic sense . |
| 6 | Businesses , such as property investment companies , which may make wholly exempt supplies , can not reclaim any input VAT . |
| 7 | whilst there remain widely varying explanations of the reasons for the disturbances of 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , there can be no doubt that the fear of social disorder , and its association with the needs and demands of black people , has been a major factor in sustaining central government interest in inner cities policy . |
| 8 | The women migrants within countries became overwhelmingly domestic servants , until they married some fellow-countryman , or passed into some other urban occupation . |
| 9 | Using mostly commercial housepaint , his work is process-generated and involves pouring and intervention . |
| 10 | The reasoning , however , is that problem determination is not a ‘ core competency ’ and so IBM is happy to relinquish its responsibility and concentrate on further CICS development . |
| 11 | To identify a new chairperson for the board , or to derive full value from bringing on those trustees , five years is too short . |
| 12 | A strip of electrician 's tape stuck round both sides of the base to make them waterproof and they 're ideal for bringing on any bulbs destined for the windowsill . |
| 13 | Morrow laughed , bringing on another attack of smoker 's cough . |
| 14 | The same acute musical intelligence is brought to bear on the rest of the performance : the second movement is a ‘ Dumka ’ which has often received rather heavy-handed treatment in the past . |
| 15 | According to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters , which has just celebrated its centenary , of the thousand-odd portraits undertaken professionally each year , hardly any are commissioned by their subjects . |
| 16 | Only industry could absorb locally this surplus the land would not support , and in the early half of the nineteenth century there was none . |
| 17 | We are happy that our streets are clean , that daily life is well-ordered , that our markets still sell locally home-produced produce and that we recycle our glass and our paper and our spent batteries . |
| 18 | The very notion of struggle will , of course , trigger widely varied responses among readers , quickening some , frightening others , bewildering yet others again . |
| 19 | Hazel realized wearily that Bigwig was probably going to be troublesome . |
| 20 | First , they extend its existing range , studying female subjects in areas which have previously been researched using predominantly male samples . |
| 21 | It has , however , come to represent the ‘ norm ’ in technical writing to such a degree that , even if a writer was not particularly interested in giving an impression of objectivity , s/he would find it difficult to break away from the convention of using predominantly passive structures in technical writing . |
| 22 | They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists ' arguments , for example . |
| 23 | Diocesan resources are in part historically determined — the older dioceses like Lincoln , Canterbury and Winchester enjoying rather more riches than their modern counterparts — but all derive a considerable part of their revenue from allocated parochial contributions . |
| 24 | The pulmonary artery pressure was 104/42/ 65 mm Hg ( systolic/diastolic/mean ) , the right ventricular pressure 103/14 mm Hg , and mean right atrial pressure 14 mm Hg . |
| 25 | These dealers cite widely varying reasons for their moves , including the search for new markets for American art , local dealing rights to the work of desirable American artists , access to art in European and Eastern European collections , favourable exchange rates and participation in the new European economic community . |
| 26 | His very uniqueness made most other pilots avoid him . |
| 27 | At the Home Office , he impressed opponents and civil servants alike by the way he piloted intensely complex Bills through Parliament . |
| 28 | They continued to enjoy rather more autonomy in running their own affairs , but the state officials who dealt with them were scarcely less rapacious than landlords . |
| 29 | Initial Egyptian investigations into the attack revealed little concrete information about the perpetrators of the attack , and on Feb. 7 the authorities imposed a news blackout . |
| 30 | He prefers to parry rather then duck and sway . |