Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involved spasmodic attempts at boosting advanced teaching and research in science and other fields of " modern " study , especially as applied to industrial organization and technological development . |
| 2 | Probably the most important effect of his reading of Joyce was to make him all the more aware of the possibilities of his anthropological reading , especially when applied to modern city life in the context of inanity or death : city life was filled with fatal torpor and Eliot described London as shrivelling , like an aged little bookkeeper . |
| 3 | Both these processes in the long term are effective agents of selection , especially when applied to differential capacities to obtain mates and to care for and rear young . |
| 4 | But Soderstrom , introducing the songs set by set , was good company ; the recital hall at Blackheath , rescued from years of abuse by the government department that used to inhabit it , had a good sound and an airy Victorian grace ; and Roger Vignoles , the accompanist , was as clear and gifted as ever ; so the capacity audience wound up feeling happy , especially when treated to confident versions of Lehar 's Vilja Song or My Lips They Kiss So Hot . |
| 5 | I thought this idea might work well if transposed to pressed flowers . |
| 6 | We shall not linger over what we mean by choice , which even when narrowed to considered choice is a concept with blurred edges . |
| 7 | I have never liked shrillness , particularly when allied to Liverpudlian vowels and a cock-teaser 's soul . |