Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a relatively [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the Seveso incident , strict EEC legislation has virtually eliminated the possibility of similar accidents which account for a relatively small component of overall exposure . |
| 2 | This effect persists for a relatively long time , and as there is a specific relationship between the stimuli and the responses , it is regarded as a genuine form of associative learning . |
| 3 | The typical applicant to the tribunal is a male , middle-aged , non-union manual worker dismissed after a relatively short period of service . |
| 4 | It is a conversation between equals , even if you are applying for a relatively humble post . |
| 5 | C adds to the 1017 entry that the exiled ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , which could imply that the original was written before this happened ; but it should be noted that the final sentence of the same annal , on Cnut 's marriage to Emma before 1 August , comes after the notice of Eadric of Mercia 's execution , which Florence of Worcester says happened at Christmas ; if so , the sentence on the marriage looks like a relatively late addition . |
| 6 | It can be folded and compressed into a relatively small bag or box and tucked away in an odd corner till next required . |
| 7 | By this time chartism had been dismantled ; with it went the first , and arguably last voice of mass working-class opposition to the state , and Britain entered into a relatively stable period of economic progress within a successfully reconstructed hegemony . |
| 8 | Newly commissioned cadets are normally sent to work in a relatively small situation . |
| 9 | The method can cover the complete range of moduli encountered in polymeric systems but is confined to a relatively narrow frequency range of 0.01 to 10 Hz . |
| 10 | It noted , however , that the increase in new lending was confined to a relatively small group of countries , and that for many others , notably in Africa , there had been no improvement . |
| 11 | The archaeological evidence suggests that silver first came into use on a substantial scale during the third millennium B.C. It was not until metallurgy had been carried to a relatively advanced level of sophistication that the production of silver in any quantity became practicable . |
| 12 | Again , the power of the motor , harnessed to a relatively short blade , prevented stalling . |
| 13 | Piaget attempts to map the increasing capacity for abstraction implied by the symbolic function , showing that in this development , language , which depends on an entirely conventional relationship between sign and signified , is bound to come at a relatively late stage . |
| 14 | The answers received will be analysed in tabular form for statistical presentation and so categories of response must be considered at a relatively early stage . |
| 15 | It was built relatively late , between 1844 and 1845 , and destined for a relatively short working life , but it did provide a good deal of employment for several decades . |
| 16 | The movement of goods , the interaction of cultures and the clash of empires have , by the accident of geography , been channelled through a relatively small area of south-eastern Europe , imposing an indelible imprint on its peoples . |
| 17 | Three patients with complete obstruction , presented with a relatively prolonged symptom free , ‘ silent ’ period before diagnosis . |
| 18 | These are just a few of the things that can be done with a relatively crude form of recording of four basic parameters on a time base . |
| 19 | The dog therefore receives less benefit than normal , with food passing in a relatively undigested state right through the digestive tract . |
| 20 | Policy choices will always be made within a relatively narrow spectrum of possible options . |
| 21 | The capacity to show habituation , he observed , occurs relatively early on in the development of the baby Aplysia , while sensitization does not appear until a relatively late stage . |
| 22 | So while school or college-leavers can benefit from a relatively standardised approach , there are others whose training programme needs to be structured closely around their specific backgrounds and individual requirements , otherwise a large element of everyone 's input is going to be little more than an wasteful duplication of effort . |
| 23 | The method is simple , but depends upon a relatively expensive apparatus which is not , but should be , available in all sedimentological laboratories , particularly where fine sediments are to be analysed . |
| 24 | Because the recommendations in our Report have been prepared in a relatively short time , some changes will almost certainly prove necessary in the light of experience . |
| 25 | This can result in a relatively rapid turnover of cultural fashions , as one project of this kind succeeds another , and this area of relatively rapid innovation — often of a minor kind — has been important in the later twentieth century , as a direct function of the expansion and increased rate of internal circulation of the market itself . |
| 26 | Thus the risks of a particular strategy can be evaluated in a relatively safe manner before being put to the test in a real life context . |
| 27 | ‘ We certainly surprised a lot of people and I think we may even have surprised ourselves by the progress we had made in a relatively short time . ’ |
| 28 | The 12 hour or 2 day course applied to a relatively small proportion of courses — subjects such as welding , fencing , drystone dyking , shearing , and sheepdog handling . |
| 29 | At the same time for most structuralist theorists , literature still retains its distinctiveness through its peculiar linguistic awareness — a premise which , again , depends on a relatively complex theory of language . |
| 30 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |