Example sentences of "in [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the fish appeared to be in rather a sorry state . |
| 2 | The steward was not left to mourn that his bottles found no custom : there was treating and return treating , and one humble Highlander who could sing Gaelic songs was made the sink into which was poured the spirits bought by sundry odd pence ; and , to the satisfaction of those who deem it a noble accomplishment the filling a man drunk , this Celt was brought into that pitiable condition , and manifested the power of the spirits over his brain in rather a curious way , — he was for kissing all round . |
| 3 | This happy period of my life came to an end in rather a stupid way . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was stupid of me , but I had expected so much , if in rather a vague way , that the reality was a bitter shock : I was unqualified , I had no degree , I was n't even trained as a secretary . |
| 5 | In the present study the number of statements required was cut to ten , because the test was just one item in rather a long interview . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Fenella in rather a small voice . |
| 7 | Party officials full of earnest endeavour were passing down all-Russian directives from Moscow in rather a wooden manner . |
| 8 | Sociologists ' strictures about loss of familiarity due to the disruption to social life , as in the study of Bethnal Green ( Young and Wilmott , 1957 ) , at first went largely unheeded , though their conclusions were unmistakable : Abercrombie 's Greater London Plan had now to be looked at in rather a different light . |
| 9 | Peregrine , however , was there lying back in his chair and offering himself to the hot sun in rather a shameless way . |
| 10 | Scott said that , having just completed writing his Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture , Present and Future , the ‘ great competition , then , found me in rather a prepared state of mind ’ . |
| 11 | As we saw in the case of the bacteria on a pin 's head , successive splittings into two can generate a very large number of cells in rather a short time . |
| 12 | in case you did n't notice I was in rather a little bit of a mood on Friday ! |
| 13 | She had introduced herself in rather a peevish voice as Gladys someone-or-other . |
| 14 | Up until then most of John 's friends and colleagues had heard any news in rather a fragmented way at parties or in the pub , which was frustrating for them . |
| 15 | Now the County Councils and the City Council 's assessment of the capacity of the Greater York study sites are roughly the same , you can see , sir , that as things have moved forward in only a six month period , the City Council calculate there 's a residual requirement of nine hundred and forty seven dwellings , only twenty five percent of the migration assumption , none hundred and forty seven dwellings left , compared to the County Council 's outdated information which suggested it 's one thousand three hundred and thirty five . |
| 16 | The evidence suggests that they are often indifferent to their educational attainment and are interested in only a narrow range of basic skills or in traditional education for the ‘ high-fliers ’ . |
| 17 | They are advised that they are potentially highly infectious when the ulcers are present and should refrain from intercourse ( should they cent of patients who develop genital herpes go on to have recurrent attacks , and in only a small proportion of these do the attacks occur so frequently as to disrupt life appreciably . |
| 18 | The DN10 cDNA clone contains an alternatively spliced exon present in only a small fraction of P mRNA from human melanocytes and fetal brain ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Harsh ’ treatment was observed in only a small number of cases ( 18 per cent. ) and was usually attributable to particular benches . |
| 20 | Possibly for that reason , and certainly for others , minimum recommendations came to be made in only a small proportion of cases . |
| 21 | This rule resulted in only a small minority of married women becoming fully insured and helped to reinforce their financial dependence within marriage . |
| 22 | Murderers had been brought to justice in only a small number of the cases referred to . |
| 23 | Cytochrome P450 was present in only a small proportion of normal colon samples , whereas epoxide hydrolase and glutathione S-transferase β were identified in about half , and glutathione S-transferase α and γ in most normal samples . |
| 24 | At higher Re the flow becomes turbulent in only a small fraction of the total length and so the variations in flow rate are again too small . |
| 25 | Minor changes in meat grading have occurred , leading to higher prices for leaner meats , but this has resulted in only a five per cent swing towards leaner meat reaching the market . |
| 26 | A MAN sparked off a full scale alert last night after he refused to be rescued as he drifted a mile and a half off shore in the North Sea in only a five foot toy dinghy . |
| 27 | A MAN sparked off a full-scale alert last night after he refused to be rescued as he drifted a mile and a half off shore in the North Sea in only a five foot toy dinghy . |
| 28 | Deregulation has also extended to business organisation though , as yet , in only a limited way . |
| 29 | Relationship matters , formerly considered in only a limited way as ‘ discipline ’ , Discussing the relationships of the librarian with the users is one way of discussing the role of the librarian , a way that keeps the reader in the forefront of the issue . |
| 30 | Although the authors do not deny the importance of the social and political environment in which unions operate , as well as the effects of economic forces , these influences are dealt with in only a limited way . |