Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] a relatively [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should give sufficient cut down of search so that word shape need only be checked on a relatively small number of words . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Policy choices will always be made within a relatively narrow spectrum of possible options . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is especially suitable where the client requires a simple building and his needs can be met by a relatively standard design . |
| 7 | For Britain it has been shown that Cabinet ministers , senior civil servants , members of key advisory bodies and the heads of prestigious organizations tend to be drawn from a relatively narrow social class group , characterized by education at public schools and Oxbridge and by having had parents in a similarly narrow range of upper-middle-class occupations . |
| 8 | It was inherent in the project that Blackeyes should be played by a relatively unknown , inexperienced actress . |
| 9 | Such desensitisation is inhibited at 20°C , and this temperature was preferred for most experiments since it enabled effects of activation of protein kinase C to be assessed against a relatively stable control value . |
| 10 | Imprisonment , because of its invisibility ( symbolism obviously requires public visibility ) seems to be relegated to a relatively minor role , though he is not very clear on this . |
| 11 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |
| 12 | For example , if the racks contain perishable goods or clothing , the whole may be lost by smoke contamination , despite the fact that the fire can be restricted to a relatively small area . |
| 13 | ‘ For sociological purposes a city may be defined as a relatively large , dense and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals . ’ |
| 14 | It can , of course , be argued that the great emphasis on esteem and moral careers which might be observed in a relatively undeveloped town in Southern Italy are not especially relevant to modern industrialised societies . |
| 15 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 16 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 17 | As this is in fact used as the Parish Burial Ground and not restricted to members of St Peter 's church they feel that responsibility for its upkeep should not be left to a relatively small number of volunteers . |
| 18 | The issue remains an irritant to many unwilling recipients , but could be left as a relatively harmless result of the publication of names and addresses , were it not for more disquieting developments . |
| 19 | Mr Murray explained that the aim would be that loans should be repaid within a relatively short time . |
| 20 | While the relative merits of competing hypotheses within a research programme can be determined in a relatively straightforward way , the comparison of rival research programmes is more problematic . |
| 21 | Using published sources , a region in relative decline will be contrasted with a relatively expanding region in each country . |
| 22 | The geology of Britain may conveniently be divided into a relatively small number of chronostratigraphic units as shown in Figure 1 . |