Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and fairly [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fine and fairly straight title-story of the first collection , a well-to-do Jewish family expels a poor boy to whom they feel they have been ‘ nice ’ and who has repaid them by sleeping with their daughter . |
| 2 | As you heard , the Act deals with only a narrow and fairly uncommon occurrence . |
| 3 | The school does need to be seen to be taking a sensible and fairly consistent line or doubts will be raised about the strength of school management and accusations of double standards will fly . |
| 4 | Traditional college instruction fails to exploit fully the library 's resources available for it and … the average college student 's experiences with the library constitute a limited and fairly insignificant part of his education . |
| 5 | It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses . |
| 6 | After he 'd made a quick and fairly superficial examination I locked the door . |
| 7 | As we said , we would n't be on the picket line now , and indeed the Union would not be backing us in what is proving to be a long and fairly expensive dispute , if we did n't believe that we had a very good chance of getting our jobs back and re-establishing the Union in Pergammon Press . |
| 8 | The panel hopes now that this statement of faith can be seen as a useful and fairly accessible indicator to outsiders as to what the faith is all about , and at the same time as a ring of words which at least the majority of us within the church can happily affirm . |
| 9 | Jane had a short and fairly easy time , as did Folasade , who had told no one but her boyfriend that she was pregnant : |
| 10 | And Mr Howard Brown ’ ( Morse hesitated ) ‘ has given a full and fairly satisfactory account of his own whereabouts that afternoon , an account which has since been substantially corroborated . ’ |
| 11 | Only a small and fairly random subset of voters disagreed . |
| 12 | This is a modest and fairly technical book , but its central idea is likely to escape and assume a life of its own . |
| 13 | However , apart from a continuous and fairly boring trickle of snide remarks in the gossip columns ( mainly digs at Morrissey 's claims to a celibate lifestyle ) , nothing of any real harm was seen in print . |
| 14 | Having seen Mr Jeffreys and diagnosed an acute and fairly painful dose of tonsillitis , she had intended going straight back to her cabin , instead of which , without even being aware of it , she had walked in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Superficially , it was an obvious and fairly understandable statement to make . |
| 16 | Iron ( chemical symbol Fe ) is an abundant and fairly typical member of the transition group of metals . |
| 17 | Beneath them , in France , there existed an ordered and fairly hierarchical structure which saw to the day-to-day defence of the country , from those with wide territorial jurisdictions to those who might be sent to a particular area , town or castle to organise its defence in time of crisis . |