Example sentences of "[verb] the tone " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as Hartman 's book wants to be read as a form of fiction , one can make the adverse literary-critical point that the prose is dense and cloyingly arch , with a crooning , caressing quality about it , suggesting the tone of a man talking quietly and earnestly to himself rather than trying to communicate anything to others . |
| 2 | Mr Goddard , a former mayor of Phoenix who had been expected to win the November race easily , first lowered the tone by comparing Mr Symington to Charles Keating , the financier at the heart of the Lincoln Savings and Loan disaster . |
| 3 | Single-parent families were to be treated with suspicion ; it was a status she believed lowered the tone and moral values of the school . |
| 4 | Only the lunchtime crowd lowered the tone — a rather conventional assortment of estate agent types in their shirtsleeves complete with mobile telephones cocked at their elbows . |
| 5 | Although their more militant stance was probably vital for the development of the nationalist movement , the bombastic and buccaneering approach of the new breed of politician has led to accusations that they ‘ lowered the tone of political life ’ . |
| 6 | He read the tone . |
| 7 | Increasingly familiar became the tone of letters home like the following : ‘ Of my section , which consisted of 19 men , only 3 are left … |
| 8 | He always has to go and lower the tone of a conversation . |
| 9 | Then his sister told him gently that schools like his did n't have bells , a bell would lower the tone of the place and put off the parents of prospective pupils . |
| 10 | The plan , by Scottish Airports Ltd , was approved yesterday when councillors at Paisley rejected objections from management of the Forte Crest Hotel , who claimed the proposed two/three-star hotel , on a site yards from the former Excelsior Hotel , would lower the tone of the airport . |
| 11 | That could really lower the tone of the evening . |
| 12 | With regard to readability , if the proportion of personal pronouns in the text is 5 to 10% , this program thinks the tone is sufficiently warm and friendly . |
| 13 | The oboe tends to impoverish the tone of the violins and to make it sound thin and pinched . |
| 14 | Control of the workforce was therefore formal and impersonal , often reflecting the tone of class relationships as they existed in the wider rural society . |
| 15 | the tone , they change the tone . |
| 16 | And for another thing it is extremely difficult to catch the tone of the master and almost impossible to create stories as imbued with life as his . |
| 17 | Each book effectively recreates the tone of its predecessor(s) ; Asimov 's being remarkable as a novel of the 1940s written in the 1980s . |
| 18 | Partly as a result of these consultations Libya modified the tone of the polemic with Egypt , and withdrew proposed measures against Egyptians working in Libya . |
| 19 | Jane Postlethwaite caught the tone and stopped , startled . |
| 20 | The neck pickup is sharp and punchy , but knock the tone back a little and it becomes sweet and bluesy : Mississippi without the mud , if you like . |
| 21 | We invited you to highlight , from a list of adjectives , how best you would describe the tone & style of the course . |
| 22 | She used the tone of voice she had used when he was little and she caught him doing something he had been expressly forbidden to do . |
| 23 | And their resilience changed the tone of my whole project . |
| 24 | Matteo Fargion 's specially composed music for piano , strings and brass does much to set the tone of the piece , with its clouded dissonances and flurries of bright jazzy melody . |
| 25 | President Richard von Weizsäcker , often able to set the tone , has been unusually reticent since the storm he created last year by urging that the government should move from Bonn to Berlin ( an issue that remains undecided ) . |
| 26 | A hundred chairs ‘ disappeared ’ , the rows became a little more spacious , aisles were one seat wider , space was left for photographers — and the press conference was packed , creating the vital ‘ success ’ atmosphere to set the tone to launch an important strategic project . |
| 27 | Four days earlier the Sun had also helped to set the tone with a centre-spread report , ‘ HUMAN TIDE LABOUR WOULD LET IN — Bogus refugees will grab state handouts ’ , complete with coloured maps representing the locations of intending immigrants to Britain from Africa , Asia , eastern Europe and the Middle East . |
| 28 | Each unit is prefaced by an apposite quotation , or ‘ pointer ’ , to set the tone and get the student thinking . |
| 29 | My idea was partly to make sure of a good time , as I have always had there , and partly to set the tone for my future articles . |
| 30 | They seem to set the tone . ’ |