Example sentences of "in [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ’ . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Bone breakage was analysed in rather greater detail by Andrews & Evans ( 1983 ) . |
| 34 | Your personality sets boundaries on what you can and can not do in rather the same way that your physical build also sets constraints . |
| 35 | One problem which remains , even in Dearlove 's formulation , however , is that it tends to present options in rather too clear-cut a fashion . |
| 36 | And in rather chilly summers they eat less , so plants can get out of hand . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | She had introduced herself in rather a peevish voice as Gladys someone-or-other . |
| 40 | Of course the cruder methods of pressing grapes in those days would often have resulted in rather murky-looking wines which failed to clear properly . |
| 41 | We can study the circuit in rather more detail if we look at Fig. 4 . |
| 42 | Unfortunately the fish appeared to be in rather a sorry state . |
| 43 | 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 ) . |
| 44 | Ivy had gone on to ask about me : ‘ I believe he is in rather low spirits . |
| 45 | Twelve hundred words a week , week in , week out , at a rate something in excess of £1 per word — well , not too bad a life , actually , would be the most likely response of those facing the 14th , 15th , 16th … years of Conservative rule in rather more straitened circumstances — if , of course , they were to read his column . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | In rather special circumstances this can result in the creation of new dislocations but the much more usual effect is for them to repel each other . |
| 48 | Good enough to finish fifth in a Listed race at Goodwood last year , Romola Nijinsky mixes in rather less exaltic circles these days . |
| 49 | I was here to win at all costs and did so in rather fine style . ’ |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | This happy period of my life came to an end in rather a stupid way . |
| 52 | FOR A birthday boy , Mark Ibold is in rather disgruntled form . |
| 53 | ‘ Actually , I 'm in rather a hurry . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | The broad support that the ECSC Treaty did receive was perhaps possible because , despite its complexity , it was rather inchoate : because it was couched in rather vague and ambiguous terms , it could be interpreted in different ways . |
| 56 | I wondered what memories were passing through the minds of the other members of the group , especially those that 50 years earlier had paid a flying visit to Norway in rather different circumstances . |
| 57 | Different kinds of opacity within a program were discussed earlier and these would seem to have quite different correlates in the sphere of consciousness : the lower level of language is almost totally inaccessible from the higher level ( unless special structural features are added to the language to make it accessible ) , in rather the way that the machine code of our brain , if there is one , is utterly inaccessible to me , thinking in English . |
| 58 | Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister . |
| 59 | However , he then interprets his statistics in rather dubious socio-literary historical terms , seeing Shakespeare as ‘ breaking with the tradition of the sonneteer as a court poet or an aristocrat ’ by involving ‘ his interlocutors … in debate ’ and dialogue . |
| 60 | 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 . |