Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Projects rarely develop in a totally predictable fashion and thus require close and detailed control both during the implementation phase and after they are fully operational . |
| 2 | Still , the taboos have been the source of much mirth : the stand-up 's traditional reliance on smut and mothers-in-law could only exist in a largely sex-negative society . |
| 3 | But she had only checked in a very recent volume . |
| 4 | At the other end of all this research is the sick child , whose life has suddenly altered in a most dramatic way . |
| 5 | However , re-use of interface details will not necessarily result in a substantially similar expression and , in the example in Figure 3 , the expression ( program listings and structure ) may be quite different . |
| 6 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 7 | Raised variants of /Ε/; are apparently spreading in a linguistically ordered way , with ‘ long ’ environments affected first . |
| 8 | He slid his hand to her hip , where it gently rotated in a maddeningly sensual rhythm . |
| 9 | For example , economic practice contains raw materials , individual men , tools , etc. , all united in a more or less institutionalised process . |
| 10 | It can only operate in a fairly narrow range of light intensity . |
| 11 | As such , they may be more appropriate for urban areas , where most of the housing in any area tends to be of a similar age and type and the blanket effect of the area-based policy will at least have some logical basis ( although even in inner cities problems do not necessarily come in a spatially concentrated form — see Smith 1979a ) . |
| 12 | These thoughts , which approached problems from many different angles , were not necessarily expressed in a very intellectual way . |
| 13 | So professors of jurisprudence teach their students that legal realism was an unnecessary exaggeration of facts about legal practice better described in a less heated way . |
| 14 | Mentally handicapped children , especially those with severe handicaps , need to be taught social skills which may be naturally acquired in a comparatively short time by children of higher intelligence . |
| 15 | Stencil only demonstrates in a more manic form a common desire to know , to gain certainty , which is enacted through the related figures of penetrating surfaces , interrogation , breaking codes , and above all analysing texts . |
| 16 | If I am introduced as ’ Gill 's husband ’ , I am treated in a certain way ; if I am introduced as a Member of Parliament , I am generally treated in a very different way . |
| 17 | Some of the Scotsmen talked of getting Ramsey as Bishop of Edinburgh but not enough of the Scotsmen wanted an Englishman and no doubt there were those who wondered whether this professor who lived among clouds of glory would make a bishop who perforce lived in a too real world . |
| 18 | The zebra loach has become so specialized that it can not survive in a less turbulent environment . |
| 19 | Also , even bureaucrats , those Weberian embodiments of modernity , do not behave in a purely rational-legal manner , we shall find . |
| 20 | ‘ If you want me with you for a business meeting , ’ she protested huskily , ‘ you 're not acting in a very businesslike manner ! ’ |
| 21 | The emphasis on Christianity in this part of the Act came about as a result of a House of Lords amendment to the Education Reform Bill originally tabled by Baroness Cox and finally presented in a more pragmatic form by the Bishop of London after extensive consultation with interested parties . |
| 22 | The attention given to the listener , however , did not result in a truly interactive analysis of peer communication . |
| 23 | Pleased and strangely girlish , which was a feeling she had not had in a very long time . |
| 24 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 25 | But a lot of the training does n't actually have a definite something that 's sort of a number because it 's actually getting people to do the work that they 're already doing in a slightly better way or to feel more confident |
| 26 | The apparent undulose character of the inversion surface at top Carboniferous level may be an indication that the basement has not behaved in a particularly homogeneous fashion during the various basin inversion episodes . |
| 27 | Of slighter build than his brother , at fifteen Joseph still had the unfinished face of a growing boy , but his features were already set in a more thoughtful , reflective cast than Chuck 's and there was a hint of his mother 's sensitivity in his smile . |
| 28 | Development work of this kind is the epitome of an ‘ enabling role ’ , providing that term is not defined in a very restricted way ; it can actively support a consumer-responsive , mixed economy of welfare . |
| 29 | The weather changes over the centuries , but it does not change in a specifically malevolent way . |
| 30 | In the other semi final Loubenov/Slavov of Bulgaria seemed to blow up and stopped paddling 100m from the finish , finally arriving in a particularly unstable state . |