Example sentences of "in the [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canoeists and surfers waited in the deceptively calm waters of the Severn for the big wave to arrive . |
| 2 | Labour productivity in the overwhelmingly preponderant sector of society , subsistence agriculture , was very low , so any net surplus was small . |
| 3 | An intense heat spread through her quivering , eager figure , and she rejoiced in the overwhelmingly sensual pleasure of their entwined bodies , welcoming the deep , shuddering thrust of his virile manhood . |
| 4 | These habitual leaders of such attempts at stylistic intrigue as the Italian market currently stages continued to show their love of the Seventies in the darkly romantic plum velvets and feather boas that will somehow seem for ever Biba . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has launched a version of OSF/1 , but only in the ultra low-volume mainframe version of AIX , but Groupe Bull SA is quite happy to add bits of Foundation technology to its Berkeley Unix brought up to Unix System V.3.2 level , and Hewlett-Packard Co is taking the same tack with HP-UX . |
| 6 | Skippering two of the boats taking part in the Ultra 30s Series , a new spectator-friendly sailing event on July 3 and 4 , will be Laurie Smith and Ossie Stewart , bronze medallists at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics . |
| 7 | The aim of the directive on " civil liability for damage caused by waste " , which is still at an early stage of discussion , is to force banks to take greater interest in the environmentally damaging activities of their business customers . |
| 8 | Madness would seem to be reigning in the rather exclusive world of old Cartier ‘ objets d'art ’ . |
| 9 | She heard his voice downstairs , talking in the rather affected boom he put on for strangers . |
| 10 | McAfee 's programming origins are reflected in the rather terse style of his programs . |
| 11 | in science and technical subjects , in the rather spartan buildings of the school ( all Chinese educational buildings are very spartan by our standards ) . |
| 12 | Penelope hardly knew which to choose after this , but decided on brandy ; she had a vague idea that for women port was a rather low-class drink , since they did not — perhaps could not — appreciate it in the rather ritualistic way that men did . |
| 13 | This phenomenon can be seen in the rather similar clown-scenes in Titus Andronicus and Antony and Cleopatra , on which Jonas Barish has commented , as in the comedies in general . |
| 14 | Harriet works for a time in a ‘ gown-shop ’ and takes part in the rather gruesome beauty treatment of the other ‘ sales-ladies ’ . |
| 15 | Cruel , a little , but not savage : Alix could see Hannah smiling gamely , taking it in good part , and wondered if she was also taking in the rather subtle sub-text of allusions to drugs other than nicotine . |
| 16 | He had spent the latter part of the evening in the rather pleasant sitting room with her father , whose wish to please his handsomely connected and honourable guest had taken the form of a little boasting . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the rather fresher air of rural areas the poor were healthier and lived longer than the urban poor , who suffered from the ravages of urban atmospheric pollution , overcrowding and unhealthy working conditions . |
| 19 | On the street outside the Marriott , in the rather rum section of town the locals affectionately have dubbed Pigalle Place , we had encountered Malgosia , a twenty-three-year-old prostitute , disembarking from a car . |
| 20 | The story line in the smoothed version of panel ( b ) is a lot clearer than in the rather jangled panel ( a ) . |
| 21 | In the rather broader context of a graduated test scheme , evidence of mastery would be needed so that ( i ) a pupil 's achievements could be informatively reported ( e.g. for certification ) , and ( ii ) to indicate readiness for further learning to be undertaken at the next level of a scheme . |
| 22 | But lest we fear that party time is over , in comes news of a rather spiffing affair held last week in the rather gorgeous setting of the Rovers Return pub in Coronation Street . |
| 23 | Why is it that when Ken Livingstone ( Political column , 1 May ) , one of the wittiest sparks in the rather dullish firmament of contemporary Labour , leaves the safe sound-bite pages of the Sun and ventures his hand at joined-up paragraphs , he goes so badly awry ? |
| 24 | Eventually this work on citation orders came to fruition in the rather unlikely context of a new indexing system , PRECIS . |
| 25 | My father would never have let me start digging up our graveyard for family pets otherwise , so off they had to go , departing this life in the rather undignified garb of half a badminton shuttlecock . |
| 26 | If I am to find a criticism , it is in the rather erratic organisation of the material . |
| 27 | This is an appeal by a father , ex parte in the rather unusual circumstances of this case , from the refusal of Judge Galpin in the Portsmouth County Court on 18 March 1992 , only a few days ago , to make a residence order or a prohibited steps order or a specific issue order on an ex parte application made the day before by a father in connection with a snatch , and a potential snatch of the rest of the children of the family . |
| 28 | Painful chest especially in the right lower zone , better ( > ) for pressure . |
| 29 | Positive findings were decreased air entry in the right lower chest and a distended abdomen with tenderness and guarding , mainly in the suprapubic region . |
| 30 | The caecum was considered to be reached only if the light of the instrument was seen in the right lower quadrant , the base of the appendix was visualised , and the ileocaecal valve was seen . |