Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [be] particularly [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , attention will focus on the specific problems of island nations in the developing world where agricultural impacts have been particularly severe .
2 THE bottom has dropped out of morality , according to Lord Hailsham , who added that the ‘ last few months have been particularly difficult to bear . ’
3 The French ports have been particularly vociferous in pressing for compensation and in January 1986 the French government made a package of aid available to Calais , Boulogne , Dunkirk and Dieppe to upgrade their deep water and other maritime facilities and to diversify their local economies .
4 Women with dependent children have been particularly likely to seek accommodation in the local authority sector after marital breakdown ( Sullivan , 1986 , p. 41 ; Grundy , 1985 ) .
5 Their bruised shoulders and backs reminded them that the cai and the French assistants had been particularly vicious that morning .
6 Such issues have been particularly popular with banks ( partly for reasons of asset matching ) and sovereign issuers .
7 The past three years have been particularly harsh in both publishing and bookselling , with waves of redundancies and bankruptcies and , at best , a massive reduction in the profitability of the book industry .
8 Three factors have been particularly significant in bringing about this decline : reduced family size , the increasing participation of women in the labour market , and rising divorce rates .
9 The predicament of the Attorney General during the protracted proceedings had been particularly awkward .
10 Horizontal linkages have been particularly important in Italy , probably more than in any other European country , as a result of a number of factors .
11 In carefully conducted experiments , neither fat nor normal-weight subjects have been particularly good at estimating the calorie content of a meal .
12 Accrediting prior learning and arrangements for workplace training are important components in this exercise and the positive response from our industry members in the participating countries has been particularly heartening .
13 Conversational analysts have been particularly concerned with the use of language to negotiate role-relationships , peer-solidarity , the exchange of turns in a conversation , the saving of face of both speaker and hearer ( cf.
14 This is a field in which voluntary organisations have been particularly active — as witness the work of the National Trust , the Ancient Monuments Society , the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , the Victorian Society and others .
15 Local GPs have been particularly supportive of the Gorgie-Dalry service .
16 Since then , due to the economic recession , recreational courses have been particularly subject to a series of expenditure cuts so that facilities have declined , courses have been curtailed or cancelled , and fees have been increased .
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