Example sentences of "a carefully [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In parliament there would be a carefully organized campaign of resistance that would at least slow the government down and raise Unionist morale . |
| 2 | This exposé and the Salvation Army spectacle were symptomatic of a carefully organized campaign by purity workers and feminists to press the Liberal government to pass the Criminal Law Amendment Bill , which had been before Parliament since 1883 . |
| 3 | A day later he claimed that he had been the victim of a dirty tricks campaign , saying that his house had been under surveillance and that a carefully organized smear campaign had been waged against him , apparently concerning loans alleged to have been made to his petfood company several years previously . |
| 4 | It is a carefully conceived piece of theatre , evoking the Age of Chivalry , both that , legendary , of Charlemagne 's court , and that , imaginary , to which Don Quixote aspires . |
| 5 | This vagueness was inherent in a concept which expressed deep-rooted instincts rather than a carefully conceived policy . |
| 6 | Certainly , the standardized interview as used in a carefully conducted sample survey is important , but there are many other instances outside the sample survey in which the interview is an important research tool . |
| 7 | Macaulay , the Whig historian , reviewing The Prelude in 1850 , was shocked at what he found : we must remember that the book was not published until after Wordsworth 's death , and had the effect of a carefully nurtured time-bomb . |
| 8 | It represents the peak of Anglo-Saxon rural organisation , a carefully differentiated but far from rigid series of social groups , well developed before the Norman ‘ feudal ’ additions to it . |
| 9 | A major consideration for the teacher is to ensure accessible success experiences for the majority of the pupils ; this again can be achieved at varying levels with a carefully tuned balance between demands from the teacher and demands from the program . |
| 10 | Well manicured hands with a carefully toned nail varnish are much more attractive . |
| 11 | It could be likened to a carefully positioned set of film stills . |
| 12 | Given this situation , which persisted into 1922 and beyond , what hope was there for Gosplan to construct a carefully planned economy and society under any kind of political conditions , whether those of War Communism , NEP , or the Five-Year plans of the future ? |
| 13 | Paul , whose remark had been the opening move in a carefully planned campaign to enhance Bodo 's image so that his plan to leave school and work with him would not meet resistance , meekly accepted the rebuke and the order , especially as the television he wanted to watch was a rock concert . |
| 14 | ‘ Just Cause ’ was a carefully planned invasion just waiting to happen , poised at the starting gate for the kind of justification that the macho thug in Panama City was bound to provide sooner or later . |
| 15 | Dumb bells , hours of exercising and a carefully planned diet of vegetarian food and fruit juice had completed the programme . |
| 16 | It was a carefully planned attack by France 's secret service with the full backing of President Francois Mitterand . |
| 17 | Looking ahead to the ideal holding some years hence ( which , at best , is just a step on an endless ladder ) , as a new owner you will visualize your farm divided neatly into a number of well-drained , fertile fields , growing crops in a carefully planned rotation to feed both your family and livestock , with sufficient hay and grazing throughout the year . |
| 18 | This can be achieved , together with crop health and weed control , by adopting a carefully planned rotation of cereals , roots , and grass . |
| 19 | It was the result of a carefully planned experiment based on numerous other experiments performed over a long period . |
| 20 | This was to be the first of three stages in a carefully planned development of the imperial role and power . |
| 21 | A young research social scientist could well go into a factory and tell the people she worked with that she was a student on a placement for , say , three months , learning about the realities of factory work , when in fact she was a graduate research worker carrying out a carefully planned study of labour-management relationships . |
| 22 | A carefully planned programme of subsequent care should be arranged before a patient is discharged from psychiatric inpatient treatment . |
| 23 | The Primary Education Improvement Project in Northern Nigeria has produced a programme for the lower classes where more formal subject-based lessons were planned to cover about half the teaching time , but complemented by a carefully planned activities programme based on group work . |
| 24 | They 've gone through a carefully planned period of transition to keep things interesting for themselves , and their time is about to start again . |
| 25 | Then it would be purely a matter of waiting for the assassin 's bullet to strike home , or a carefully planned accident to take place . |
| 26 | It looked as if the stage was set for a carefully planned and timed entry of the leader , on the totalitarian model , but when the time came Aung San passed almost unobserved through the people to the platform , and quietly began his speech . |
| 27 | In fog there is an atmosphere first of temper and then of inertia , followed by improvization and a peculiarly relieved conviviality , like the illogical sense of reprieve that lies in having to eat a carefully planned picnic lunch inside a car because it is pouring with rain outside . |
| 28 | The 1991 amateur circuit will kick off in traditional fashion with the Roehampton Gold Cup next month , while established tournaments like the Astor , Wentworth and Critchley Salvers , the St. Rule and Helen Holm Trophies , plus the ever-growing list of 36-hole ‘ open ’ tournaments , make life as an amateur a carefully planned operation . |
| 29 | Four generations of Glynns , and the fourth of the dynasty had got himself murdered in his own office ; no heat-of-the-moment crime either , but a carefully planned murder executed in cold blood out of hatred , or fear , or obsessive greed . |
| 30 | More recent research by the Bristol team suggests that a more effective treatment would be a combination of the new drugs they are currently working on , together with a carefully planned exercise programme . |