Example sentences of "[art] carefully [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carefully leaked revelations about her battle with the binge-eating disease bulimia nervosa and her suicide attempts had caused her husband 's friends to hit back . |
| 2 | The never-slow-on-the-uptake Miss Minogue was not about to lose control of the carefully constructed image she had worked so hard on and that was a victory which put many a sharp-practising lensman on his guard from then on . |
| 3 | Kylie believed that her image — the sound , the clothes the carefully constructed ‘ look ’ that millions around the world copied — belonged exclusively to her . |
| 4 | The sounds of night , picked out one by one , are imitated in the carefully constructed lines ; yet the pauses between the sounds are also conveyed in the slowness and tranquillity of the whole passage , so that the general effect is one of intense stillness , with the ear strained to catch the least noise . |
| 5 | It is extremely difficult to discover any coherent pattern to the oprichnina and , although it is true his victims included many boyars , Western scholars have had great fun exploding the carefully constructed ‘ class ’ explanations advanced by Soviet historians . |
| 6 | The Dickens study reports that the contribution of lay members on matters of industrial and practical knowledge are tempered by the carefully constructed legal framework within which unfair dismissal applications must be considered . |
| 7 | At once the carefully constructed cradle collapsed ; there was no longer any pattern , merely an ugly mass of tangled string hanging from his hands . |
| 8 | The more compressed style is of course more likely in the carefully constructed world of literary expression , but it lacks the dynamic punch of the conversational sequence . |
| 9 | Suitable , smart , the effect was an outward expression of the carefully constructed façade she showed the world . |
| 10 | Some of the carefully calculated compartments in Kircher 's ark . |
| 11 | The carefully conceived ‘ return for nourishment ’ to the rituals exposed by Cornford exhausted itself after two fragments . |
| 12 | In the case of malicious damage , where compensation could be got under the carefully defined Saxon laws , it was the local thegn who usually benefited ; we shall never know how much of this was passed on . |
| 13 | Taken together , they form something much more important : street architecture , which may just as well be a delightful jumble as the carefully planned composition of a Georgian terrace . |
| 14 | The carefully planned cross-country course , which takes advantage of many excellent natural features , has been used to host the World Student Cross-Country Championships as well as other local competitions . |
| 15 | Especially if more of the carefully planned meals end up on the wall than in the mouth . |
| 16 | Besides , since the industrial action involved a boycott of curriculum development , the carefully planned implementation of Standard Grade , as the reforms came to be known , was completely undermined . |
| 17 | May I express our disappointment at the last minute postponement of the carefully planned visit of Anne-Marie de Jonghe to Wales . |
| 18 | On 2 March , 1990 , in a room in a luxurious New York hotel , they staged the carefully planned armed raid of £1.8 million worth of rubies , emeralds and sapphires , fooling New York 's police . |
| 19 | There are the carefully packaged documents prepared by marketing , PR and advertising companies on behalf of their clients . |
| 20 | This reader did not know whether to be more depressed by the carefully presented statistics , or the faint praise offered to bus managements for their efforts to rescue some kind of order from a rising tide of chaos . |
| 21 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 22 | Rory cursed softly as the sudden voice made her jump , sending the carefully poised mascara brush skittering over her cheek . |
| 23 | She was well into her thirties , nowhere near as young as the carefully styled fall of blonde hair suggested . |
| 24 | Not for him the carefully charted route to the top . |
| 25 | Elizabeth I , it will be remembered , could use either a singularly beautiful humanistic style ( common to all the carefully instructed Tudor children ) or what she herself called a ‘ vile skrating hand ’ . |
| 26 | With a shrug , he retrieved his black jacket , pinched a couple of cookies from the carefully arranged plate and drifted quietly away through the front door . |
| 27 | The Russian leader threw the carefully arranged welcome into chaos when he slipped past the RAF guard of honour to give a brief interview in his own language to Russian reporters . |
| 28 | The London dealers have just been through and the carefully arranged display is now a scene of devastation . |
| 29 | But the carefully prepared general rise in European interest rates immediately prompted concern that it represented German worries about domestic inflation and the ability of the Bundesbank to persuade other countries to follow its policy , rather than an expression of the determination of the Group of Seven , the leading industrial nations , to control the dollar . |
| 30 | ‘ Hatful Of Hollow ’ , despite the carefully scrubbed edges , came complete with a ‘ sound ’ well within the reach of any band … well , almost . |