Example sentences of "for the supposedly " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the supposedly devastating impact of the John Major Diary in Private Eye , of which I am also a co-author , I can only say that , despite the article 's prediction , it did not seem to stand in the way of a gratifying number of people giving him their enthusiastic support on Thursday — including myself . |
| 2 | As for the supposedly curative hair of the dog , this stems from the ancient belief that the only cure for an infected dog bite was a poultice of milk , bread and fur from the offending animal . |
| 3 | The picture is one of industrial land owners , including English Estates , abandoning the development of industrial premises in a frantic search for the supposedly massive profits to be made from retail developments . |
| 4 | And Thucydides describes no sharper conflict than that between the aggressive Spartan Sthenelaidas ( i.86 ) and the more cautious King Archidamus ; for the supposedly more ‘ open ’ society of Athens he records only the views of Pericles and an anonymous delegation which does not contradict him . |
| 5 | The pluralist discussing large-scale societal issues of this sort does not argue for decisional methods or observation of group interaction but rather for the supposedly inevitable , though always incomplete , diffusion of central values , so that understanding political power is a matter of charting the spread or decline of these values . |
| 6 | Thieblot and Haggard do not provide a systematic analysis of the reasons for the supposedly violence-prone nature of the UMW , or indeed , for the differing characteristics of the 1977 and 1981 disputes . |
| 7 | Four out of five applicants then leave their families for the supposedly better world , hoping that they will return remittances and that their kin may perhaps be able to join them later . |
| 8 | The sound effects man produces claps of thunder for the supposedly nerve-tingling revelations and soft music for the love affair between Watson ( Michael Percival ) and Miss St Clair ( Susan Penhaligon ) . |