Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one issue which centrally concerned the Consultative Councils — electricity prices — their attitudes were predictable and damaging : the Councils generally added to the pressure for uneconomically low prices , though members who adopted an aggressively consumerist line were unlikely to find themselves reappointed by the Minister . |
| 2 | This objective could be reached through blatantly coercive methods or by those less obviously repressive . |
| 3 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 4 | While I was opposed to that operation , I have the highest respect for our armed forces personnel , and — for rather quaint reasons — I have great sympathy and respect for members of the Royal Military Police . |
| 5 | A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman . |
| 6 | For rather similar reasons , Darwin reacted against Lamarck 's idea that organisms have an inner drive to evolve greater complexity . |
| 7 | Veronica 's father was Lord Somebody-or-other , she reminded herself , and did n't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs ? |
| 8 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
| 9 | It was a useful review of services but not a profound analysis of problems in this field and it makes for rather bland reading . |
| 10 | It is true that some journalists are greedy and ask for rather more samples than they require , but this is not the norm and these people are soon sniffed out . |
| 11 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 12 | We stayed at John Bannon 's Hotel in Manali Orchards for rather more time than we had intended . |
| 13 | Perhaps their own style , which became dominant in the twentieth century , did not emerge as such until sciences moved into the phase of theory and systematising which ( for rather obscure reasons ) suited them admirably . |
| 14 | While Harrison prepared yesterday to play a benefit concert at the Royal Albert Hall for the Natural Law Party , 51-year-old Starr said he was playing a series of dates in Europe in July for rather different reasons . |
| 15 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 16 | The so-to-speak general reviewers were not impressed much either , but for rather different reasons . |
| 17 | Jane Austen has her abbeys too , but she values them for rather different reasons . |
| 18 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 19 | Similar pressures weighed on Desiderius , Waddo and Bladast , but for rather different reasons . |
| 20 | Departmental Visiting Days are divided into two groups which are intended for rather different purposes : |
| 21 | They are , for example , responsible for rather different population sizes . |
| 22 | But it is also used in some cases for rather trivial offences . |
| 23 | However , in the Braniel a young male fieldworker found ( for rather obvious reasons ) that he was not passed on to any young women of a similar age to himself . |
| 24 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 25 | For rather larger projects , the JCT in 1984 produced their Intermediate Form of Building Contract . |
| 26 | This is contrary to Thatcher 's beliefs about locally accountable services and the power of the local ballot box . |
| 27 | The usage of ‘ rule ’ by biologists is clearly different from that employed by social scientists when they talk about verbally transmitted instructions for what humans may and may not do . |
| 28 | Now that you have the contract you will have seen of course that the commercial exploitation of the data on the tape will be subject to further negotiation between presumably Cristian de Wilde and myself . |
| 29 | One , especially relevant for the UK and for economically depressed regions of the country , is that there will certainly be international and regional differences in the rate at which new technology is taken up . |
| 30 | For effectively open-circuit operation the resistance of the bias circuit has to be high enough or a choke of high enough reactance has to be connected in series with it . |