Example sentences of "especially [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Data on a wide range of trace elements , especially thorium , uranium and the rare-earth elements , down to concentrations less than one part per billion ( 1:10&sup9 ) , have been obtained from natural waters and experimental solutions from several projects , including those concerned with the mobility of nuclides in the geosphere .
2 High amplitude propagated contractions are elicited by some types of laxatives ( especially bysacodyl ) , which provides further evidence of their role in defecation .
3 Another video weakness to guard against is the coarse and grainy look of plain surfaces in bright primary colours , especially reds .
4 Will the Minister look yet again at the proposed closures , especially RAF Brawdy ?
5 Especially groups of people from the Church .
6 Both the X Business Group and IDC say their findings illustrate the growing importance of X software , especially PC X servers , and say the X terminal price war is driving hardware revenues down .
7 He thought them ‘ … more frightful than any in Monmouthshire or Derbyshire , especially Penigent ( sic ) Hill ! ’
8 Unmarried women , especially widows , had some prospect of an independent life .
9 In addition , the provisions in some occupational pension schemes and APP schemes for dependants , especially widows , may be very poor .
10 There are two forms of inequality related to occupational pensions which also serve to disadvantage very elderly women , especially widows .
11 Though property-disputes were no doubt very often settled informally , through arbitration by senior family-members , for instance , and so have left no trace in the written record , some recorded cases arose over property-claims held or transmitted through women , especially widows .
12 This is well known for predators ( especially birds ) which form a searching image ; see , for example , Cooper ( 1984 ) .
13 The biggest rise was in property-related crime , especially burglary and car-theft .
14 Middle left Mount Usher — 20 ‘ Robinsonian ’ acres , once a potato patch and now thickly planted with trees , especially eucryphia and eucalyptus .
15 The strengths of the approach are clear : it gets away from being content-dominated and takes the teaching of skills seriously , especially skills of stilling , centredness and attentiveness .
16 Where possible , he would be paid in untaxable kind , especially champagne — the quickest route , he said , out of Welfaria .
17 Green folder , £1.99 ; yellow notebook , £1.50 ; coloured pencils , 20p each Best for : All rooms , especially bathrooms , utility rooms , kitchens and conservatories
18 Pencil , 20p Best for : All rooms , especially bathrooms and children 's rooms
19 Religious rituals and the arts have been , and still are , concerned with handling this unresolved problem handed down to the present by the institutions which preserve the archaic heritage of mankind , especially religions .
20 Portuguese : 19th- and 20th-century fiction , especially Camilo Castelo Branco , Eça de Queiroz , José Saramago ; modern poetry , especially Fernando Pessoa .
21 Something of the same special place of ‘ retreat ’ for art , especially literature and painting , is to be found in Foucault .
22 They viewed the law as providing a basis for the teacher 's authority to exert discipline within the school , but lamented the fact that the legal limits were derived from a collection of diverse sources , more especially case law or precedent under common law .
23 He was acutely aware of the power of the airlines , especially Pan American , in Congress and in the administration , and he wanted to choose his ground carefully .
24 erm especially budget and so that was good .
25 Receive in tranquillity and peace , Lord , the souls of all your departed servants who have died recently , especially William Carroll and Cardinal Thomas O'Fiach .
26 She was careful what was said in front of boys , especially William .
27 Especially fairies .
28 Although he had been brought up in a brothel , Katherine had ensured that neither of her children knew the true function of the house , and while they might suspect where some of here money came from — especially Patrick — they were in no position to argue about it .
29 The New Review ran a profile on Minton in which he is quoted as saying : ‘ I love taxis , and the cinema , especially musicals in Technicolor , and I am very keen on jive [ sic ] .
30 The range can be seen to be surprisingly restricted , however , with the emphasis on basic services ( especially metalworking ) at most sites ; more specialized activities are less well represented .
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