Example sentences of "[verb] a slightly [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post . |
| 2 | However , this is not generally the case , and a whole variety of GUIs have developed , each adopting a slightly different subset of these principles as guidelines . |
| 3 | In programming , if something 's called J S P Jackson Struction Pro-level Method , and erm , I think I can introduce a slightly modified way of using it . |
| 4 | The experiment by Norcross ( 1958 ) , which used a slightly different version of this procedure , produced essentially the same outcome . |
| 5 | And detailed chemical strains of the outer membrane show that it has a slightly different structure from normal unit membranes . |
| 6 | Fabius has a slightly different title from his predecessor . |
| 7 | In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And here old Mother Jacobsen assumed a slightly different position in her chair to render a pompous tone . |
| 12 | Boswell amplifies in a way which casts a slightly different glow on the affair : he comments on how striking it was to hear all the aldermen of Aberdeen drinking Johnson's-health with much exclamation of the great man 's name . |
| 13 | Putting Clairmont at the centre casts a slightly different light on familiar figures : Byron seems more brutal , Mary Shelley more querulous , Percy Shelley more responsible ; and for once , her mother gets a decent mention . |
| 14 | Does anything you do sustain a slightly increased heart-rate for 20 to 30 minutes ? |
| 15 | ‘ Biogeography is a field of study which has come to assume a slightly different meaning for different disciplines . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I mean if one can use a slightly awkward word like ‘ policing ’ , and I think there is a sense that none of us want to be acting as substitute parents and , you know , policing student behaviour in a way that suggests that they 're not yet fully mature . |
| 18 | Some affirmative uses give a slightly different impression from that of being able to assert the occurrence of an event because of its having been perceived — a suggestion that there is a difference between what perception would lead one to think and the way things really are : ( 85 ) Once again the direction in which something is seen to move might depend upon the ratios of firing in cells sensitive to movement in different directions , and after prolonged movement in one direction a stationary image would produce less firing in the cell which had just been stimulated more than normally , hence apparent movement in the opposite direction would be seen to occur . |
| 19 | All this involves a slightly different approach to your windsurfing . |
| 20 | Luke asked grimly , touching a slightly sore place on her temple . |
| 21 | This kind of idiom is particularly useful where one wishes to include a slightly archaic flavour at some point in a composition which otherwise uses a more contemporary idiom . |
| 22 | This issue of the newsletter offers a slightly different view of educational research . |
| 23 | However , he had been using a slightly different definition of a black hole . |
| 24 | Because they are arranged along the animal , each of the organs receives a slightly different impression of a disturbance , allowing the animal to locate its source and built up a picture of its surroundings . |
| 25 | In the meantime , visitors may detect a slightly smug expression on the face of Goya 's ‘ Maja Desnuda ’ . |
| 26 | One gets a slightly different perspective on the question of lifting formes and chases from the women compositors questioned by Margaret Irwin in 1893 . |
| 27 | Thus three patients ( 16 , 17 , 18 ) had borderline pathological SeHCAT tests but normal 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one concentrations , and two patients ( 4 , 11 ) with normal SeHCAT tests displayed a slightly increased concentration of the bile acid intermediate . |
| 28 | Cynics , of course , will have a slightly different idea of the plot . |
| 29 | This may well be a unique combination which will produce a slightly different organism with new characteristics . |
| 30 | Starfish , flatworms and other early animals use a slightly refined system in which the eye-spots are placed in a cup-like depression . |