Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a relatively [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Because the lens acts as a relatively immobile membrane at night , it is not difficult to calculate the level of permeability required . |
| 7 | While this study is limited to one university and deals with a relatively small intake of mature students over a period of six years it does demonstrate that non-standard entry mature students can do particularly well when compared with other students . |
| 8 | In a sense , any ethnographic study is a case-study , since all such research concentrates on a relatively small group or a single institution . |
| 9 | This change in K m translates into a relatively large change in the rate of Ca 2+ influx ( sixfold ) at 12.5μM cGMP . |
| 10 | Some moves have been made to deregulate the private rented sector , but this still accounts for a relatively insignificant part of the housing stock . |
| 11 | Manufacturing accounts for a relatively small proportion of employment in rural areas , and in the more remote regions it has been estimated that this can be as low as 10–20 per cent ( Gilg 1976 ) . |
| 12 | It is important to realize that the scope of a scheme which apparently focuses on a relatively narrow area may be quite wide by the time all fringe topics ( which are relevant to or have some impact upon the core area ) have been noted . |
| 13 | An alternative possibility is that these three versions of a word are treated as the same ( which would happen if the visual word-recognition system operates at a relatively abstract level ) . |
| 14 | But because of the weak change-orientation in these cultures , the idea-handling remains at a relatively low level of creativity . |
| 15 | If he works in a relatively narrow vein , he does so constructively , and his strong , lucidly expressed improvisations provided a robust foil for the trumpeter . |