Example sentences of "[vb -s] to be fairly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | with the form teacher and yo and you know that has to be fairly fluid to let i incorporate their ideas erm but I would then put out , you know , week seven er , you know review what er , a record of achievement is it might be what can write try your personal statement about yourself . |
| 2 | It 's got , I mean , surely the , the middle peasants or even the rich peasants the group of people that are gon na be most productive in the economy erm so you know your reform has to be fairly moderate in that sense that they have to be able to promote |
| 3 | the questionnaire has to be fairly short |
| 4 | A corollary of the mechanism is that either not too many kinds of clusters must be involved or the collapse size has to be fairly independent of the cluster structure . |
| 5 | With the likes of Martin Amis ( still the leader of the pack — a fine first of The Rachel Papers could now fetch £500 ) , Julian Barnes , Dick Francis , Wendy Cope , John Mortimer , Kazuo Ishiguro , Tom Stoppard and quite a few more , one has to be fairly quick off the mark ; with others , a more leisurely approach is adopted , either because the first edition tends to hang about , or — in such cases as le Carré and Forsyth — when the initial print runs are so huge as to discourage panic buying . |
| 6 | I think we 'd find Mr Churchill that it it 's rather more complex than that and and the requirements for delivering a nuclear weapon and you refer to the possibility of C A S O M being nuclear capable , one has to be fairly careful quite a , there 's a degree of difference between a missile needed to do the two jobs and I think it would be rather more than wiring which would be er at issue here , there 's the payload and all the rest of it which I suspect would cause very severe problems with that . |
| 7 | Clearly , if care programming aims to prevent people from becoming lost to services , it needs to be fairly all-inclusive . |
| 8 | He says this is where newcomers to the business can have difficulties , and that one needs to be fairly robust to cope with the pressure . |
| 9 | This normally needs to be fairly short , but contain enough basic information , power of description , use of words , style of text and so on . |
| 10 | Part of the explanation for this is that government spending tends to be planned over a number of years ( e.g. hospitals , schools , and other capital expenditures take several years to complete , and governments are reluctant to dismiss teachers , policemen , and other employees for short-term economic reasons ) ; consequently such expenditure tends to be fairly inflexible , especially downwards , in the short run . |
| 11 | I do n't actually know — I 'm surmising — but one tends to be fairly observant and that is what I felt . |
| 12 | There are two main reasons why investment tends to be fairly interest-inelastic : |
| 13 | Apart from the difficulty of chambers , the ordinary person who has no special connections normally finds it easier to get some kind of start on the common law side , where there is a great deal of small work , in county courts and the criminal courts ; on the Chancery side there is no criminal work and all the civil work tends to be fairly important . |
| 14 | The growth appears to be fairly steady , and rather small , but there are dips at 1967-68 , and 1972-74 , and there is a tendency towards non-linearity in the rate of growth . |
| 15 | The incoherence I think is that you ca n't ever say that anyone has lost because you do n't know what 's happening in the second and third and fourth erm batch , so I ca n't see how this system is meant to work , Mill seems to be fairly confident that it will . |
| 16 | They read the cartoons but after that the reading seems to be fairly limited . |
| 17 | No , the order seems to be fairly haphazard — and I feel that this is to the benefit of the patient . |
| 18 | Although Maslow 's model is not widely accepted it seems to be fairly accurate at explaining lack of effort and commitment by workers at Burger King . |
| 19 | On the M forty itself traffic seems to be fairly smooth at er , there are some repairs going on still between junctions one and one A , that 's between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions . |
| 20 | Although there seems to be fairly clear evidence in favour of an interactional view of sentence comprehension , there remains the question of whether syntactic analysis is optional or obligatory . |
| 21 | It seems to be fairly common practice if a taxpayer dies for a deed of family arrangement or deed of variation to be entered into under which , for instance , the children receive £150,000 ( this is the nil-rate band for inheritance tax purposes effective from 10 March 1992 ) and for the balance of the assets to be left to the surviving spouse . |
| 22 | And what there is seems to be fairly basic . |