Preposition: in

• tone: The new document is more conciliatory in tone than the Green Paper.

Modifies a noun

• gesture: This conciliatory gesture brought Sun some help from Russia who sent Michael Borodin to Canton.

• tone: In his relaxed, conciliatory tone he explained the mad logic of the whole thing to me.

• attitude: What Mark Antony does is echo their opinion with what they must take, at this stage, to be a conciliatory attitude.

• approach: France has taken a more conciliatory approach in an effort to achieve consensus among all 15 council members.

• manner: The TSSA, other Trade Unions and the company have now met in a conciliatory manner to discuss the way forward.

• noise: Despite recent conciliatory noises from Tory spokesmen, there has been no commitment to lowering the tax on fuel.

Modifying Another Word

• too: Jonathan Pearl: We didn't want to appear too conciliatory.

• very: John Prescott has clearly learned that rail industry bashing is not the best way to get improved performances and his tone was very conciliatory.

• extremely: The antinomian language of Paul was balanced by occasional acts of an extremely conciliatory character.

Used with adjective complement

• become: He has not seen the need to change his ways or become more conciliatory.

• sound: While this was meant to sound conciliatory, the SWP did in fact have deeply sectarian motives.