Example sentences of "[art] slightly [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I encourage women to have induction at 43 weeks ' gestation because of the slightly increased risk to the baby thereafter . |
| 2 | During the years of Baldwin 's premierships she appeared a slightly ridiculous figure to the sophisticated young . |
| 3 | It only needs a slightly increased tempo to be the great national anthem our country maybe does n't deserve , but will surely grow into when we have cast off childish things and grasped the thistle of independence . |
| 4 | Working from home used to have a slightly pejorative ring to it . |
| 5 | He is described as a teacher of rhetoric , but this was probably not a slightly anachronistic reference to Artemidorus of Daldis , whose dream-books were becoming popularly available in print on the Continent for the first time in the second half of the sixteenth century in Latin and Greek . |
| 6 | We also know that they may react in a slightly perverse way to our advertising . |
| 7 | I have always had a slightly suspicious attitude to information on road accidents since the Road Research Laboratory ( I think it was ) , proved some years ago that if you were killed in an accident at any age over forty , you were doing the country an economic favour . |
| 8 | It had a slightly Gothic look to it . |
| 9 | It belonged to an extremely important erm civic family , Thomas and John Smith , who are the two important ones during the civil war , Thomas was mayor just before the War , John Smith was a member of parliament in the Long Parliament , and erm there 's a slightly complicated story to the house , Thomas moved out of it just before the war and built another one way up the street , but John stayed there , and another important landowner in Marston , Umpton Croak , owned the other half of it . |
| 10 | Muslim children in general have a slightly different attitude to religious education in school . |
| 11 | Computer-drawn patterns have a slightly different shape to human-made ones . |
| 12 | All this involves a slightly different approach to your windsurfing . |
| 13 | The challengers have also all adopted a slightly different approach to PageMaker in that they have provided many of the creation tools within the desktop publishing program rather than leaving them to the more specialised stand-alone products . |
| 14 | So if there 's anything , there 's a slightly different approach to it , and one thing that we are being urged to do , through the very way in which you mentioned in another context , is to make sure that facilities are appropriate locally , and developing policies within that . |
| 15 | You will note that Belfast , Dublin and Britain have a slightly different structure to other Areas . |
| 16 | There were two large candles on the altar and the one on the north side was of a slightly different colour to the one on the south . |
| 17 | This is a slightly different scene to the one Tennyson portrays in the same setting in his poem ‘ The miller 's Daughter ’ , where he describes the miller consuming a beverage : |
| 18 | But I need to say something about the investment advisors because they 're in a slightly different er they come here in a slightly different capacity to other speakers . |
| 19 | We have reverence for titles instilled in us when we are small : many of us have a slightly different response to a ‘ Dr ’ than we do to a ‘ Ms ’ , ‘ Mrs ’ or ‘ Mr ’ . |
| 20 | Each definition implies a slightly different underlying concern , and each gives a slightly different answer to the questions ‘ when did deindustrialization begin ? ’ and ‘ how important is it ? ’ |
| 21 | In Roirbak 's laboratory wing , Ari was watching a movie too , though of a slightly different nature to any Roirbak had set out for Nathan 's entertainment . |
| 22 | Every species has a slightly different solution to the problem of getting about , and the amount of work required to go at a particular speed depends in part on how well an animal has been designed to move at that speed . |