Example sentences of "[vb -s] a slightly [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And detailed chemical strains of the outer membrane show that it has a slightly different structure from normal unit membranes . |
| 2 | Fabius has a slightly different title from his predecessor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All this involves a slightly different approach to your windsurfing . |
| 9 | This issue of the newsletter offers a slightly different view of educational research . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One gets a slightly different perspective on the question of lifting formes and chases from the women compositors questioned by Margaret Irwin in 1893 . |
| 12 | David Burke reads a slightly abridged version of ‘ Iron ’ on Reading Aloud ( Radio 4 : 8.40–9.00 pm ) . |
| 13 | figure 5.11(c) presents a slightly different possibility in which the sizes of the A and B circles have not been changed . |
| 14 | In his book , The Science of Homoeopathy , the Greek homoeopathic practitioner Vithoulkas presents a slightly different diagram in which each ascending level is shown as being within and higher than the previous one , with all of them interpenetrated by the life force . |
| 15 | As a result , he gives a slightly different portrait of a more experimental painter , dictated less by logic than intuition , and pursuing a development which was not as rigid as the artist 's admirers would have maintained . |
| 16 | The absolute size of population gains and losses gives a slightly different picture of regional change . |
| 17 | Each definition implies a slightly different underlying concern , and each gives a slightly different answer to the questions ‘ when did deindustrialization begin ? ’ and ‘ how important is it ? ’ |
| 18 | Notice in this extract the effect produced by the repeated word " too " , which suggests a slightly dismissive superiority on the part of the writer — an effect reinforced by the words " simplistic " and " quirky " . |