Example sentences of "have a relatively [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if IBM has a relatively weak market share in the burgeoning software business it is still very comfortably number one ; and while some of the Japanese giants and European champions occupy high positions in the software league , the huge array of US software insurgents ( led by such companies as Lotus , Microsoft and Sun ) has no equivalent elsewhere . |
| 2 | The stock of money has a relatively narrow base in less developed countries ( LDCs ) as it consists mainly of banknotes and coins in circulation . |
| 3 | His15 in S. faecalis HPr has a relatively low p K a ( 6.1 ) and it was generally accepted that this resulted from the direct interaction between the side chains of His15 and Arg17 . |
| 4 | The observation that a sensory system has a relatively low threshold for the form of energy which it transforms into experience is not only a pre-scientific empirical observation but also one that science could not reform — if reform were necessary — nor independently validate . |
| 5 | For example , West Germany and the Netherlands both have lower female work-force participation than Britain but also have considerably lower fertility ; while Japan , with a period fertility level about the same as Britain 's has a relatively low work-force participation by married women . |
| 6 | It is closely related to peat and has a relatively low carbon content and high moisture content . |
| 7 | Britain has a relatively poor record of instituting randomised prevention trials ; the Scandinavians , by comparison , have been more enlightened and more active in breast cancer screening . |
| 8 | Like LOEX it operates on a subscription-fee basis , but unlike LOEX it has a relatively small catchment number of libraries which might subscribe , and because of this its ability to maintain itself as a self-financing clearinghouse is in question . |
| 9 | This is particularly so in the case of an authority like Kirklees which has a relatively small population and rateable base . |
| 10 | Further , and most importantly , coaxial cable has a relatively small bandwidth , which limits the range of radio frequencies and so the number of channels that it can carry . |
| 11 | The American Pressurized Water Reactor ( PWR ) , still the type most commonly in use in the United States , has a relatively compact core because it was originally designed to provide power inside the hulls of submarines . |
| 12 | In " Area B " , one of two areas of South-East London where Hewitt worked and one which has a relatively high density of Caribbeans , even white children may learn some Creole in primary school , through peer contact ( 1986 : 150 ) . |
| 13 | This will enable it to continue using British coal , which has a relatively high sulphur content , while meeting EC standards on sulphur emissions . |
| 14 | Whereas the Highlands have a low population density , and a short growing season , southern Italy has a relatively high population density ( despite a century of outmigration ) relative to available cultivatable land . |
| 15 | To show this , suppose that the UK has a relatively high rate of inflation and that , as a result , the pound is depreciating : speculators who expect the pound to continue depreciating will sell pounds and buy stronger currencies so as to make a capital gain later . |
| 16 | Although Thailand has a relatively high rate of literacy and primary school enrolment , the secondary system is weak . |
| 17 | The repressor has a relatively rigid core , but two flexible loops , residues 12–20 and 78–83 , have high-temperature factors in the absence of DNA , and adopt different conformations in different crystal environments . |
| 18 | A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid . |
| 19 | This latter component has a relatively large value and sets the — 3db point in the bass region . |
| 20 | Our inding that EGF is depleted in oesophagitis is perhaps explained by a report that EGF has a relatively short duration of action ( <24 hours ) , so that continual stimulation by fresh EGF is required to maintain a mitogenic response , depleting stores of EGF in the endothelial cells . |
| 21 | East European poets have had a relatively straightforward relation to their society . |
| 22 | But it is worth noting also that Scotland has had a relatively strong tradition of technical education for the last century , in contrast to the rather patchy developments south of the border ( Argles 1964 ) . |
| 23 | San Gimignano is slightly apart from the other cities of Tuscany in that it seems to have had a relatively small element of hereditary feudal warriors among its citizens or in its contado . |
| 24 | If child B has had a relatively unstressful childhood , he will attain adulthood with a lower vulnerability than A. Child C , who also had a stressful upbringing , but inherited a tendency to react much less strongly or negatively to the environment , will also be less vulnerable in adulthood than A. However , there has so far been little cross-fertilisation between research on genetic factors in depression and research on life events . |
| 25 | A basic foodstuff , such as the common loaf of bread or a packet of ground coffee , will have a relatively long life cycle . |
| 26 | The situation there is that the , there 're , if you have double rooms as doubles then there would be , we do have a relatively low occupancy but the committee had decided to move towards double rooms being used as single occupancy only and on the , I 've got the latest figures for the first of January in front of me just by ch really just by chance |
| 27 | Someone may be very unintelligent and yet have a good sense of hope or trust or love whereas someone else who is highly intelligent may yet have a relatively poor facility in these senses . |
| 28 | Because they are so tough , and have three wounds , you can have a relatively small unit , say five . |
| 29 | When the issue is examined in this way , one can not but agree with Brown 's conclusion that ‘ at best ( or worst ) taxation should have a relatively minor impact on the supply of labour , or work effort . ’ |
| 30 | It was those who were admitted in the year before they died who were perceived as having a relatively poor quality of life in that year . |