Example sentences of "in [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left my last job in rather strange circumstances and that does n't help things . ’ |
| 2 | FOR A birthday boy , Mark Ibold is in rather disgruntled form . |
| 3 | Is there any real development and trend that could be explained perhaps in rather simple language to people like myself ? |
| 4 | Hypnotists now often suggest that the subject focuses his attention by staring fixedly at a drawing pin on the wall , while telling him in rather monotonous tones that he is becoming more relaxed and sleepy . |
| 5 | The reasons why so many seek futures in sports , and in rather specific areas of sport , do not lie in the rather obscure realms of anatomy , physiology or psychology . |
| 6 | Other authors have been more coy : " I have left the central concept of this paper , namely pragmatic context , in rather thorough vagueness , and this for the simple reason that I see no clear way to reduce the vagueness at the moment " ( Bar-Hillel , 1970:80 ) . |
| 7 | In Italy a roughly similar consular bulletin on trade relations with foreign countries and means of developing them appeared from 1862 , though irregularly and often in rather skimpy issues . |
| 8 | Lipoproteins come in various shapes and sizes but most of the cholesterol is carried in rather small particles called low density lipoproteins or LDL — so-called because of the preponderance of lipid to protein , giving the particles a low density . |
| 9 | Bramblings are winter immigrants , normally visiting Britain in rather small numbers each year — but occasionally irrupting in thousands if continental beech mast crops fail . |
| 10 | So far , though , volcanoes have been discussed in rather general terms as though the volcanoes of the constructive plate margins were identical to those of the destructive . |
| 11 | Time spent collecting concrete evidence that you possess these and similar skills and qualities which are often expressed in rather general terms will pay off handsomely when you are required to prove your worth in an interview . |
| 12 | It goes on to discuss , in rather general terms , regional , state and network possibilities . |
| 13 | Any reasonably well-known professional scientist will receive from time to time letters written by bell-meaning people who indicate , usually in rather guarded terms , that they have in their possession the solution to the riddle of the universe and they just need a little help in polishing it up or propagating it . |
| 14 | Some had died in rather mysterious circumstances , others been sent abroad on this task or the other . |
| 15 | Bone breakage was analysed in rather greater detail by Andrews & Evans ( 1983 ) . |
| 16 | In what follows , I want to look very briefly at the formal structure , and the various departments that may be found in it : and then in rather greater detail at the account group as it may operate on a single client 's account , and how it may — with luck — interact effectively with the client 's own operations . |
| 17 | The ‘ untalented , uneducated and ill-disposed louts ’ I described above in rather intemperate language before taking my walk will make much of the ‘ coincidence ’ ( as they will put it , with heavy irony , drawing out each syllable like bubble-gum ) that Miller also appears to share the outward marks of my own alleged ill-health . |
| 18 | In rather breathless fashion , Charles explained that he wanted to find out who researched and wrote an article about the petrol crisis in a late edition on Monday 3rd of December . |
| 19 | Graham started to smile , though he thought the joke itself might be in rather poor taste , but then he was aware of Sara turning quickly , putting her glass on the mantelpiece and looking straight at him , coming closer , her face set in strange hard lines , eyes bright , taking him by the elbow and turning her head as if to emphasise that she was talking to Graham , ignoring Slater , saying , " You do dance , do n't you ? " |
| 20 | Called a snuffer , it looks like a tiny gold-plated cooling tower and can only be found in rather grand shops : Asprey , Fortnum & Mason , Selfridges and Smythson of Bond Street . |
| 21 | Well it will , they have n't had a free election except for one they had in rather stressful circumstances a few months ago , since oh , the early er ninteen thirties , and one er wonders whether the population could be going to administer to Mr Kohl the same sort of surprise that the British population administered to Churchill in nineteen forty-five . |
| 22 | Lloyd George spent large sums of his private fortune ( acquired in rather dubious circumstances as a treasure chest for the Coalition Liberals between 1917 and 1922 ) , in research activity which recommended radical policies for the Liberals in areas such as land reform and unemployment policy in the 1920s . |
| 23 | It is found in moderately hard , alkaline waters , in slow-moving rivers and backwaters , often over muddy substrates and in rather murky water ( probably best not simulated in captivity ) . |
| 24 | Zahedi clearly had the Shah 's ear and often made policy suggestions outside the foreign-policy area , a tactic which resulted in rather strained relations with Prime Minister Hoveyda . |
| 25 | On the other side , ‘ some years ago we observed that quite a large proportion of the concentrated acids we sold was diluted by our customers on site and sometimes in rather unsatisfactory conditions ; small companies did n't have facilities to dilute acid safety — it generates a lot of heat . |
| 26 | In the morning they left Scott of Eldinhope in rather better mood , the Regent being at pains to pay for benefits received , which clearly the laird had not expected . |
| 27 | Across the globe , in San Francisco that weekend the Artists ' Liberation Front , in rather better weather organized a weekend of free fairs in the ghetto parks . |
| 28 | It is likely that , whichever it is , it will tell you about the buyers of your product and its competitors only in rather broad terms — those of the basic demographics : age , sex , social grade , area , presence of children . |
| 29 | The distance from the beginning of ORF EP1242L to the first 7T motif downstream of the ORF is 3.94 kb , in rather good agreement with the size determined for this RNA . |
| 30 | We discuss the computer program in rather anthropomorphic terms , referring successively to the talents personality and style of the computer program . |