Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a fairly [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wakefield director David Lane believes care management is likely to go through a fairly turbulent period initially . |
| 2 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 3 | What looks like a fairly minor scrape would cost me the best part of a planned skiing trip at Christmas to repair if this was n't a company car . |
| 4 | Then the Lion Rampant did appear over the rising ground , perhaps three hundred yards behind those first riders , but it rose above a fairly compact party , and this was backed by a still larger body of men . |
| 5 | First , I recall that when I was a theological student , having come from a fairly conservative church , I could not square up I Kings with I Chronicles . |
| 6 | By the seventeenth century , however , engineers had become sufficiently skilled at making complex mechanical devices , powered by clockwork or water , to be able to make toys that moved in a fairly convincing approximation to the way that people and animals move . |
| 7 | Consequently most visitors to the countryside continue to come from a fairly circumscribed group of affluent suburban car-owning families while those arguably in greater need are scarcely catered for . |
| 8 | Referring to widespread stresses Hare reviewed the carrying capacity of the earth , and planetary air pollution and climatic change with considerable vision and in ending on a fairly optimistic note commented : |
| 9 | He is resigned to a fairly high turnover of the younger foreign waiters , who he claims only come to learn English and are frequently tempted away to city-centre establishments . |
| 10 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 11 | When these values are adjusted to the 1 bar altitude , which lies at a fairly small distance below the cloud tops ( Figure 9.5 ) , then the equatorial radius is 71 400 km and the polar radius is 66 550 km . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 13 | The company started to use EDI about three years ago , using what information technology manager Paul Cooper describes as a fairly basic interface to Tradanet . |
| 14 | Their career opportunities consist of a fairly good chance of moving up to senior technician , and a very slim chance of becoming a lab director . |
| 15 | If you are new to the spectrum , and want your information presented in a fairly straight manner , then the Ian Sinclair book is for you . |
| 16 | For example , the formula for children aged 5–17 is based on elaborate regression equations , which are presented in a fairly obscure way and involve 12 indicators and 25 regression coefficients , including an interaction term . |
| 17 | ‘ You just have to hope they are going to behave in a fairly civilised way , ’ she said then . |
| 18 | The samples came from a fairly restricted region of the visual field , so the explanation offered in Figure 6 is probably correct . |
| 19 | These skills can be applied to a fairly wide range of tasks which can be tackled by the lowest achievers . |
| 20 | In our sort of high-technology business , the high profits tend to be made over a fairly limited time , which in many cases appears to be getting shorter . |
| 21 | The village was built on a fairly steep hillside and on a terrace which functioned as the village square a party was getting under way with a barbecue and a band consisting of sound-system , drums , electric guitar , bass guitar and electric keyboard . |
| 22 | A final possibility is that individuals sometimes cope with difficulties by self-narcotising ; this is something that is done on a fairly wide scale by man . |
| 23 | This should be done at a fairly early stage . ’ |
| 24 | You will find that the brood will grow at a fairly constant rate and should be around 6mm in length in about five weeks . |
| 25 | If that freelance photojournalist is wounded , but soon returns to the operational area to continue covering the story , only to be wounded a second time , then we are looking at a fairly remarkable man with a tale worth telling . |
| 26 | The history of welfare state legislation and of political interventions to manage economic development is interpreted as a fairly consistent chronicle of dominant business interests recognizing that government regulation protects their established position from new sources of competition at home or abroad , or fosters growth in demand which they could not secure by other means . |
| 27 | Vega , in Lyra , is skirting the northern horizon , and any slight mist will hide it ; it is worth noting that Vega , Polaris and Capella lie in a fairly straight line , so that when Capella is high up Vega is low down , and vice versa . |
| 28 | The word " invention " is not defined in the Act but its meaning is really a matter of common sense and it can be used in a fairly wide sense . |
| 29 | The phrase ‘ surgical , medical or dental treatment ’ is evidently used in a fairly narrow sense : otherwise it would not have been necessary for Parliament to provide , by section 8(2) , that the expression includes diagnostic procedures , and ancillary procedures such as the administration of an anaesthetic . |
| 30 | It also enables him to produce a version of ‘ what is being talked about ’ , i.e. the topic of conversation , which is much more comprehensive , and certainly of greater analytic interest , than the single word-or-phrase-type title which is often used in a fairly trivial way to characterise ‘ topic ’ in the study of conversation . |