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 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The very notion of struggle will , of course , trigger widely varied responses among readers , quickening some , frightening others , bewildering yet others again . |
| 13 | First , they extend its existing range , studying female subjects in areas which have previously been researched using predominantly male samples . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists ' arguments , for example . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His very uniqueness made most other pilots avoid him . |
| 19 | At the Home Office , he impressed opponents and civil servants alike by the way he piloted intensely complex Bills through Parliament . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He prefers to parry rather then duck and sway . |
| 22 | In the present study , the poor response patients who had post-treatment calcium clearance estimations show that pamidronate effectively inhibited bone resorption , but did not correct the tubular defect . |
| 23 | He read little modern poetry and little modern fiction , taking ‘ no serious notice ’ even of what he read . |
| 24 | Another difficulty with making distinctions about types of detail given is that the way the recall test was structured may have encouraged subjects to report mostly central details and no attempt was made to interrogate subjects ’ memories for details which may have been peripheral . |
| 25 | It was interesting that at the controversial Chequers seminar on Germany six British and American experts voiced overwhelmingly favourable opinions about Germany and the Germans ( ‘ If Chancellor Kohl had sat in , he would have agreed with or accepted as fair comments 90 per cent of what was said ’ , commented one of them ) . |
| 26 | Using wholly incompatible weapons systems and riven by language difficulties , the troops lack the capacity to fight as coordinated units . |
| 27 | When sexual response in older people is reduced it has more to do with social factors such as the absence of a partner ; health problems , particularly relating to cardiovascular disease , diabetes , multiple sclerosis and prostrate troubles ; drug side-effects ( many drugs prescribed to older people can have adverse effects on sexual functioning ) ; and the intolerance of social attitudes towards sexual activity in older people , which consider sex to be the province of younger people and that older people make rather ridiculous lovers . |
| 28 | I hate dead white things ! |
| 29 | Earlier , the House heard the hon. Member for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) make wholly untrue allegations about Labour 's policies with respect to the savings and income from savings of pensioners . |
| 30 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |