Example sentences of "[adv] active [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tests , conducted under the watchful eye of Nuclear Installations Inspectorate teams , aim to prove the safety of the Highly Active Cycle system , which uses steam ejectors to pump highly active liquor around the plant . |
| 2 | What is not in doubt is that there is a highly active market in take-overs in the UK , and therefore not surprisingly managements do commonly take steps to safeguard their positions . |
| 3 | But first we make a stop at the east foot of the hills , a highly active area of slimy , bubbling sulphur pits . |
| 4 | Officially , the reason given was that it now seemed more sensible to store the highly active waste above ground for at least fifty years before disposing of it , probably in the form of glass blocks , and meanwhile allowing more of its intense heat to dissipate . |
| 5 | Developers were obliged to adopt a highly active role in locating land . |
| 6 | Since his dismissal , Totten has been working as a radio journalist but yesterday admitted that only active participation in the game brought him genuine satisfaction . |
| 7 | He was also a highly successful businessman , the extremely active chairman of two public limited companies , so he did n't need the money that radio brought him . |
| 8 | That 's because Paul , Wimpey Homes ’ chief planner , plays an extremely active part in the development of gymnastics in this country . |
| 9 | Guerreiro had been widely criticized among environmentalists and Indian organizations for failing to take a sufficiently active role in defending native peoples ' interests . |
| 10 | Hopes that private and voluntary agencies , along with the nuclear family , could supplement the welfare state did not apply with equal validity to a society with more dislocation , more one-parent families , a growing divorce rate , and less active involvement by religious and other charitable bodies . |
| 11 | As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine . |
| 12 | Clarke told the House of Commons that " political change " — understood to mean the less active role of agents from eastern Europe — had made it possible for MI5 to devote more resources to countering IRA activities . |
| 13 | In practical terms , Cornwell 's ( 1984 ) data show that men play a far less active role in family life than women , and even when they are giving direct and practical support to a relative , their commitments are limited and bounded . |
| 14 | Compared with their experience at home , children at school play a much less active role in conversation . |
| 15 | Together , these studies suggest that although individuals with the less active form of ALDH and more active forms of ADH are less likely to become alcoholic , they have a greater risk of developing alcoholic liver disease if they do drink than people with the normal form of ALDH and less active forms of ADH . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh except possibly that the business at Barnes has made me eager to volunteer for more active participation in the war , sir . ’ |
| 17 | America , which had always held aloof from more active participation in the exploitation , became the strongest advocate of the 1899–1900 ‘ Open Door ’ policy , which maintained China 's right to national integrity and the equal entitlement of all nations to economic opportunity in China . |
| 18 | Book Marketing Ltd is preparing to reduce the cost of the licence fee for booksellers taking part in the summer National Book Sale in an attempt to encourage more active participation in the biannual event . |
| 19 | This movement was a direct response by intellectuals , both men and women , to the failure of the community under occupation to translate sumud , the idea of steadfastness , into a more active concept of taking control of as many areas of human existence as possible under occupation . |
| 20 | However , there is an even more active sense of the notion of differentiation than that referring to marketing and planning strategies , although these are derivatives of this final process . |
| 21 | Thus , surely there should not be more prestige matches played by fewer paid combatants in front of passive and hospitality-packaged crowds , but more active support for the playing of the game by as many players as possible at as many levels as possible . |
| 22 | Their bewilderments , infatuations , sense of being lost and abandoned , are much stronger than those of Aragorn or Gimli or anyone else in the more active half of the story . |
| 23 | The emphasis will be on a ‘ more active type of short-term fostering , ’ according to family placement social worker Jane Embling . |
| 24 | This , however , is hardly the case , for it rather involves if anything a more active critique of the Eurocentric premises of Western knowledge . |
| 25 | He sat for his home town of Stafford in the second Protectorate Parliament of 1656–8 , but is recorded as a more active speaker in the 1659 Parliament of Richard Cromwell [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | If the drama continues from week to week it might be a good idea to adopt a similar strategy at the beginning of each session — a more active way of recapping " the story so far " than through general discussion . |
| 27 | Optimism over the re-election prospects of the Conservative party , widespread among stockbrokers and fund managers only a couple of weeks ago , has ebbed away and there is now more active consideration of other possible outcomes . |
| 28 | There should be ‘ more active involvement of the shareholders in matters regarding the audit ’ . |
| 29 | We need a more active approach to the promotion of new knowledge provided by research … to carry out large numbers of research projects and then put them on shelves and in pigeon holes is appallingly wasteful , as is also the vast amount of information available in hundreds of central and local government reports published each year and then forgotten , and never collated or analysed within an overall framework of reference . |
| 30 | For a start the old problem of slow play reared its ugly head once more , causing one member of the field to suggest that he might switch to a more active sport like angling . |