Example sentences of "in [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Party officials full of earnest endeavour were passing down all-Russian directives from Moscow in rather a wooden manner .
2 I 'm in rather a hurry . ’
3 Peregrine , however , was there lying back in his chair and offering himself to the hot sun in rather a shameless way .
4 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 ’ .
5 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 .
6 She had introduced herself in rather a peevish voice as Gladys someone-or-other .
7 Unfortunately the fish appeared to be in rather a sorry state .
8 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 .
9 This happy period of my life came to an end in rather a stupid way .
10 ‘ Actually , I 'm in rather a hurry .
11 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 .
12 Such a photon is in rather a quandary .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ I 'm in rather a state about it myself , John , ’ said Bob .
16 ‘ Yes , ’ said Fenella in rather a small voice .
17 I 've come home in rather a hurry , because I 've decided to go to Brazil . ’
18 He felt that the agreement had been made " in rather a hurry " !
19 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 .
20 Everyone was in rather a hurry and I am always bad at catching people 's names .
21 Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry .
22 Unfortunately , I wrote to him in rather a hurry , and did n't take copies of the notes I sent him .
23 in case you did n't notice I was in rather a little bit of a mood on Friday !
24 ‘ You know why I really came here , ’ he said , and the words might well have been memorised because he stared up at her in rather an abstracted manner as if his mind were on something else .
25 ( This also gives the texts of the statutes , but they are often broken up between different titles in rather an inconvenient way , which is one of the reasons why the text in Statutes in Force is preferable . )
26 Once he rubbed his shoulder in rather an obvious way .
27 This makes the transitions less well defined and subject to jitter in rather the same way as a multivibrator will jitter if the initial approach to transistor turn-on is not rapid .
28 In other words , the new company would start life structured in rather the same way as BP , with a Government shareholding but without the Government taking any part in the business .
29 In rather the same way as in some Basic Needs Strategies , a checklist of desirable attributes of a good strategy can be compiled ( Blaikie , Cameron & Seddon 1979 ) .
30 They seem to act on the host 's nervous system in rather the same way as an addictive drug .
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