Example sentences of "unmoved by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Rohmer appeared to remain unmoved by the hideous cacophony as Cardiff strode hurriedly past him . |
| 2 | While quite unmoved by the blasting bitter wind the buff yellow catkins of an alder tree by a forgotten ditch told that the weather would be warmer soon . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , I am fairly unmoved by the current debate in the philosophy and sociology of knowledge about the status of realism and of science . |
| 4 | on the other hand , if they are unmoved by the first track or two , it is unlikely they will bother with numbers three to fifteen anyway . |
| 5 | Peter Rogers gave way on the first count but was unmoved by the second . |
| 6 | NOBODY who has seen the news on television of late can have remained unmoved by the harrowing pictures of the starvation that is afflicting parts of Africa , especially Ethiopia . |
| 7 | In one tirade of this kind — by no means his most bitter — he denounced those English intellectuals who ‘ skulked in lecture rooms ’ during the First World War to avoid the rigours of battle , and who were unmoved by the German execution of an English heroine like Nurse Edith Cavell . |
| 8 | They were not , Hope observed , as Mrs Crump and Mrs Moore surrounded her with attention , the welled-up tears of spontaneous emotion — not if he was anything of a judge : there was something spare , almost dry , if the word could be excused , about the tears ; he noted their dryness carefully while , in mime show , semaphoring to Colonel Moore and Mr Crump ‘ the female of the species ’ and ‘ over-sensibility ’ and ‘ poor child ’ and ‘ let the ladies resolve it but although we are men of the world we too are not unmoved by the finer shades of feeling , especially for those fallen on life 's remorseless battlefield . ’ |
| 9 | She reached out to Sarah longingly , trying to hold her hand , but Sarah thrust her away , unmoved by the quivering lips and tear-filled eyes her rejection caused . |
| 10 | St George have been unmoved by the Italian threat and have still chased Ofahengaue . |
| 11 | O'Rourke 's voice was unruffled as ever , unmoved by the less than flattering reference to the Sixth Fleet , from which he was on temporary loan . |
| 12 | Carers and friends need to start where the person is at , and not wonder how it is that someone can seem so upset at the death of a pet and yet apparently unmoved by the untimely death of their spouse . |
| 13 | Never have I seen him so static onstage , so apparently unmoved by the whole experience of playing rock 'n' roll . |
| 14 | Campus bookselling had existed in splendid isolation and been largely unmoved by the 1980s high street revolution , he argued . |