Example sentences of "a slightly [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toshack has wasted no time in putting his stamp on the side , moving the West German midfielder Bernd Schuster to libero , Michel from the right flank to central midfield , and giving the striker Emilio Butragueno a slightly withdrawn role . |
| 2 | ‘ Good evening , Mr G … ’ she began to reply , but his glance was already away from her shoes , and he was giving her a slightly raised eyebrow look . |
| 3 | I next attempted the third side to the pond , this part being on a slightly raised level to the pond itself . |
| 4 | Blood tests were normal with the exception of a slightly raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate . |
| 5 | The tribunals sit in public and , for this reason , the members may sit on a slightly raised dais . |
| 6 | Death of father was unrelated to adult depression , although separation from father was associated with a slightly raised risk of depression . |
| 7 | A repeated Barium swallow showed almost complete disappearance of the tumour ; only a slightly narrowed segment with a length of 2 cm remained at the level of the carina ( Figs 6 and 7 ) . |
| 8 | The 5- and 6-string models in the range have a slightly extended scale length of 35″ to help the response of the low ‘ B ’ by increasing string tension . |
| 9 | That was the way he enjoyed talking about sex , a slightly diluted form of the conversations that were so much part of his connections with the Orton-Halliwell set . |
| 10 | Zoe greeted her arrival with a slightly harassed look . |
| 11 | Captain Montgomery was a tall , burly character with a jutting black beard , white teeth , a slightly hooked nose and humorous eyes and , in spite of the immaculately cut uniform and four golden rings on either cuff , could easily have passed for a well-to-do and genial eighteenth-century Caribbean pirate . |
| 12 | This will mean you have to steer a slightly bowed course to discourage others from passing to windward . |
| 13 | The tap was joined to a slightly bent length of pipe which appeared from a wall seemingly composed of tightly compressed paper . |
| 14 | From the command centre , it is only the steering 's tendency to provide a slightly blurred picture of events at the front wheels that interrupts an otherwise masterful flow of information . |
| 15 | Only one rider , a slightly built girl called ‘ Evelyn ’ , was considered to be sufficiently capable to ride this powerful and frightening horse , which she did to the admiration and applause of everyone watching . |
| 16 | Their visitor , Father Timothy Browne , was a slightly built intellectual from Staffordshire , who was due to take ship that night on his way to join Dr Allen in Rome . |
| 17 | As you see , a primitive but excellent way of making a richly flavoured stew with a slightly thickened sauce but without the addition of stock , wine , or even water . |
| 18 | Heavily based on a slightly stretched platform from Chrysler 's ubiquitous K-car , the Mexican-built Spirit R/T is a boxy four-door , elongated at either end so that it appears rather narrower than its 68.1ins width conveys . |
| 19 | I gave him a slightly edited account of the banker 's concern about Andrew Stavanger 's sudden transfer of his large personal deposit , and of his mysterious non-attendance at his office for over four months . |
| 20 | In a slightly rewritten form due to Rydberg the frequencies v are given by the formula unc where n takes the integral values 3,4 c is the velocity of light and A is a constant called the Rydberg . |
| 21 | Bandage the knee in a slightly flexed position and allow plenty of turns , especially below the kneecap . |
| 22 | President Suharto 's ruling Golkar ( Sekretariat Bersama Golongan Karya ) alliance retained power with a slightly reduced majority in elections to 400 seats in the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat ( House of Representatives ) held on June 9 . |
| 23 | Against most predictions , Labour held all its total of 49 seats on a slightly reduced share of the vote . |
| 24 | If retailers buy in large quantities ( buying in bulk ) the manufacturer will probably offer a discount ( ie provide the goods at a slightly reduced price ) . |
| 25 | NCp7B , which lacks both zinc fingers but retains the three regions of basic amino acids , was found to bind to and protect DNAs from nuclease digestion about as efficiently as NCp7 while NCp7C showed a slightly reduced ability to protect the DNAs . |
| 26 | ‘ We are facing a greater distribution of a slightly reduced number of offences . |
| 27 | This increase continued at a slightly reduced rate , to reach 29.5 in the period between 1978 and 1983 . |
| 28 | This increase continued at a slightly reduced rate , to reach 29.5 in the period between 1978 and 1983 . |
| 29 | In 1992/93 AEA made an operating profit of £23 million on a slightly reduced turnover of £415 million . |
| 30 | In legislative elections on Oct. 6 the incumbent Social Democratic Party ( PSD ) led by Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva was returned to power with a slightly decreased majority of 135 seats , representing 50.4 per cent of votes cast , in the 230-seat [ not 250 as given on p. 38488 ] Assembly of the Republic . |