Example sentences of "[conj] more especially " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine . |
| 2 | That 's asking an awful lot of people who seek no more than a relaxing pint or two , or more especially when the Bishop pulls the first pint of the day . |
| 3 | It is also a much-needed corrective to the view of Mozart propagated by the play — and more especially the film — Amadeus as a dirty-minded , rather silly idiot who for some obscure reason was divinely inspired as a composer . |
| 4 | This broad framework , and more especially the premises to enable such gatherings to be facilitated , seem to be absent in Scotland as a whole , and within the context of the Highlands in particular . |
| 5 | And more especially now that we 've started raiding back against the MacIans and their friends . |
| 6 | It is only possible to lay down general rules , perhaps the most important of which is that grass , and more especially clover , must always be sown early enough in the growing season to have become fairly established before the continuous wet conditions of winter set in . |
| 7 | Gedge thought Charman was technically the worst of all the contenders but he liked the right bands in The Folk Devils , Josef K and The Three Johns , and more especially , he had an obsessive interest in The Fall . |
| 8 | Now , I conceive that a plan of the kind which I have sketched … would answer the purpose , and more especially as it would give the honour due to the focus of all our liberties , of that regulated freedom which we hope will overspread the world . |
| 9 | It seems amazing today , and more especially because there was no torture in Lancashire , that Alizon confessed . |
| 10 | Look at any photograph of men , in a group , ( at work or play ) and more especially a large crowd . |
| 11 | Andy Partner and Paul Flowers , regular central defenders in the youth team , thus have a chance to impress in the friendly fixture at Chelmsford City on Saturday ( 3 pm kick-off at New Writtle Street ) with a view to being involved in the Cardiff and more especially the Carlisle clash . |
| 12 | In line with the continuing strength of the psychometric tradition within clinical and educational psychology in Britain , and more especially in the United States , the largest category of language assessment instruments is formal tests . |
| 13 | Our curtain rises , then , in the nineteenth century , when the study of man was treated as a kind of history and more especially of that generalizing sort usually known as ‘ universal history ’ which is so well represented today in the works of Arnold Toynbee . |
| 14 | In his role as friend and protector of the Nuer universe , and more especially of its constituent lineages , god is seen in specific manifestations or ‘ refractions ’ , which introduces the familiar theological problem of the one and the many . |
| 15 | And more especially if you regard yourself as an artist of great but as yet undiscovered potential but who is forced by impecunious circumstances to provide the musical entertainment at wedding receptions in The Bronx . |
| 16 | Floggings in the army , and more especially in the navy , were another integral feature of the moral landscape of the rulers of Britain in the 1860s . |
| 17 | The jackal as Wepwawet was the local god of Asyut , but also a god of cemeteries , being associated generally with Anubis and more especially with the cult of Osiris at Abydos . |
| 18 | In most insects the 1st abdominal segment , and more especially its sternum , is reduced or vestigial . |
| 19 | There were worries too about the success of ‘ Euro-Communist ’ parties in France and more especially Italy , who had increased their appeal after 1968 by becoming more independent of Moscow and there were fears that the Kremlin would exploit political instability in Portugal in the mid-1970s . |
| 20 | By insisting that ‘ with the exception of the instinct of self-preservation , the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper ’ he in effect undermined one of the basic assumptions of ensuing generations of archaeologists and more especially of prehistorians , namely that cultural advance can be adequately accounted for primarily in terms of utility at the level of subsistence and technology . |
| 21 | This happy state of affairs could well continue if recent trends towards the construction of purpose-built houses ( as the stock of existing property is bought up ) , and more especially towards time-share developments , which spread the economic benefits over a wider season and ownership , continue into the late 1980s and early 1990s ( White , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | Aethelbald was rebuked by Boniface for his failure to take a lawful wife and more especially for his violation of nuns and virgins . |
| 23 | The ubiquity and sensitivity of magnetic minerals , the speed and versatility of measuring equipment and the persistence of magnetic linkages between source and sediment make the emerging methodology ideally suited to both process- and reconstruction-oriented catchment studies and more especially to that integration of the two approaches so strongly advocated in recent time . |
| 24 | What you 've done for six long years , and more especially what you 've been doing to me ever since we met again ? ’ |
| 25 | She felt downright uncomfortable ; there could be something poignantly intimate about sharing the half-darkness of a car with a man — particularly when a tape played some soft Neapolitan music — and more especially with a man of Luke 's charisma . |
| 26 | The Parish Council are very disturbed by the decisions that would appear to have been made about the sale and subsequent development of this small area of open land and more especially by the tactics used by the Land and Properties Sub-Committee and the apparent collusion with the Planning Department to keep the Parish Council , and therefore the local people , in the dark about what is going on . |
| 27 | With the accession of popes from north of the Alps , the chancery began to travel with the pope and was " freed " from ancient imperial and more especially from Roman influences , adopting the Caroline minuscule in its letters . |
| 28 | His nature , which it might be argued he turned into Nature , always desired love and recognition , in a way that most of us do , but it seemed increasingly the environment in which he lived , and more especially the people which he met , denied him that . |
| 29 | For much of the time these small market towns may well have appeared sleepy to travellers who were familiar with the hustle and bustle of the big cities , but every week on market day and more especially at the time of the annual fairs they were transformed by an influx of visitors . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the survival of tax records from the middle years of the century ( and more especially after 1450 ) is more patchy than from the period immediately before , so it is not always possible to trace the disappearance of villages at precisely the time when a substantial number of the desertions seems to have occurred . |