Example sentences of "[adv] in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of heather also grows better in a much drier habitat . |
| 2 | Others manage better in a more spontaneous fashion . |
| 3 | Firstly , the system works , and apparently in a generally smooth and humane way . |
| 4 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |
| 5 | We have , as the novel suggests , been immersed for too long in a predominantly oral culture for it not to have permanently altered our minds . |
| 6 | Much of his criticism does look back , although not necessarily in a particularly informed way : ‘ Realism historically has always been mainly the mode for reaching the vulgar , the great lump of people … |
| 7 | The table also makes it clear that older publications were not necessarily in a significantly greater state of disrepair than more recent items . |
| 8 | And here is a final point from a female conference organiser : firm seating is preferable to deep sofas as it is difficult to rise gracefully from the depths to greet a colleague , especially in a fashionably short skirt . |
| 9 | Renewable energy sources replenish themselves naturally in a relatively short space of time . |
| 10 | Her father and mother were sitting tensely on the sofa , Omi at the table , upright , disdain on her fine features , Bodo , huge against the wall , and all of them staring at the stubby , shabby , ash-stained figure of Marx , blinking through his red eyes at the document and reading aloud in an artificially solemn voice , practised in legal jargon and with which he , no doubt , had read out a hundred , a thousand , such documents . |
| 11 | Seated alone in an almost lightless chamber , the Oracle is a potentially terrifying sight . |
| 12 | The Yorkshireman was later both humorous and generous , perhaps in a slightly grudging sort of way , in acknowledging his former team-mate 's achievement . |
| 13 | erm let me introduce you to — perhaps in a rather more quantitative way — let me introduce what is the sort of hoariest paradox about evolution . |
| 14 | As inner cities in Britain continue to decay , it seems likely that this problem will be present , though perhaps in a less acute form , in a number of places . |
| 15 | In this sense all socialist parties are revolutionary , since their objective is to replace a capitalist form of society by a socialist one ; so also are nationalist parties which seek to overthrow colonial rule , and perhaps in a more limited sense right-wing parties , such as fascist parties , which attempt to restore a more hierarchical and authoritarian type of society . |
| 16 | At various times in the past a ‘ younger generation ’ has vigorously asserted its claims to cultural and political leadership ; a notable recent example , which helped to reawaken the interest of social scientists in the problem of generations , being the youth movements ( especially the student movement ) and ‘ youth culture ’ of the 1960s , which had , for a time at least , and perhaps in a more enduring way , a considerable impact upon cultural and political life in the industrial countries . |
| 17 | He was obviously in a very bad mood . |
| 18 | We would want this to be seen logically , through approval of the structure plan , to be taken up in r in the relevant local plan , and for that relevant local plan to then sort out competing claims from prospective developments , in mu in much the same sort of exercise as we 've seen in the structure plan but obviously in a more detailed way . |
| 19 | It is obviously in an uncomfortably contradictory position — squeezed between the expectations of the bureaucracies on which it relies and its political affiliation to the struggles of the mass of blacks which it is called upon to mediate , translate and sometimes police . |
| 20 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the activities of TNCs , wherever they are and in whatever industry , are increasingly being integrated into global processes of supply , production and marketing and the theorists of the new international division of labour have rendered great service by highlighting these phenomena even if they have done so in a rather one-sided manner . |
| 22 | I could n't argue with her , knowing I was in the wrong , so in a thoroughly bad mood I free-wheeled down the hill to the Waafery , determined to go straight to bed and to Hell with the dance . |
| 23 | She tried at first to do so in a properly genteel way , nibbling daintily . |
| 24 | Both of them were successful in squeezing money for Education out of the Treasury , although Crosland was forced to do so in a very much more bleak economic climate . |
| 25 | He does so in a very subtle manner . |
| 26 | But in social time and social space we make just such distinctions and we do so in a very consistent way . |
| 27 | So in a very short time we were in the air . |
| 28 | So in a very broad sense agriculture is going to have to con contribute to China 's , China as a whole 's economic development |
| 29 | So in a very different world to that of Shakespearean comedy , a must harsher abrasive world erm again th that bit where she 's ge get , do I get the impression that most of you found yours much more difficult to get into |
| 30 | These stages relate to the spiritual exercises which embrace reading of scripture ( lectio ) , meditation ( meditatio ) , prayer and contemplation although those who use this terminology do not always do so in a precisely similar denotative way . |