Example sentences of "[art] purely [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 From the purely cricket point of view , Pakistan will remember Aamir Sohail 's double-century .
2 The purely surface nature of the abrasion of beach pebbles may be deduced from flint beaches .
3 In 1968 another coup brought in a purely Baath regime in its place .
4 Both of these assertions , though questionable , attest to the kind of currency James enjoyed in what is usually regarded as a purely Pauline sphere of influence .
5 His penal thinking was an application of his general philosophy that law and government should pursue ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ , which logically led him to espouse a purely reductivist approach to punishment , with no place for retributivism of any description .
6 Nick , by this time leading a glamorous social life in England with his girlfriend Arabella ( Ari ) Campbell MacNair-Wilson , daughter of a Conservative Member of Parliament , proposed that since nobody wanted a purely business party for journalists and other promotional appendages , each of the children should invite their own friends .
7 As an established ‘ national ’ institution the BBC head of sport claims ‘ we do n't approach life from a purely business point of view ’ .
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