Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one issue which centrally concerned the Consultative Councils — electricity prices — their attitudes were predictable and damaging : the Councils generally added to the pressure for uneconomically low prices , though members who adopted an aggressively consumerist line were unlikely to find themselves reappointed by the Minister . |
| 2 | This objective could be reached through blatantly coercive methods or by those less obviously repressive . |
| 3 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 4 | ‘ The experience to be gathered from books , though often valuable , is but of the nature of learning ; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom ; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former . ’ |
| 5 | While I was opposed to that operation , I have the highest respect for our armed forces personnel , and — for rather quaint reasons — I have great sympathy and respect for members of the Royal Military Police . |
| 6 | A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman . |
| 7 | For rather similar reasons , Darwin reacted against Lamarck 's idea that organisms have an inner drive to evolve greater complexity . |
| 8 | Veronica 's father was Lord Somebody-or-other , she reminded herself , and did n't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs ? |
| 9 | It was a useful review of services but not a profound analysis of problems in this field and it makes for rather bland reading . |
| 10 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
| 11 | They really should have outpointed the New Zealand XV in the first match at Hamilton for they outplayed the New Zealanders for rather more than half the game . |
| 12 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 13 | It is true that some journalists are greedy and ask for rather more samples than they require , but this is not the norm and these people are soon sniffed out . |
| 14 | Each partnership authority has a different spending pattern , but overall expenditure on social projects such as recreation and personal social services accounts for rather more than two-fifths of the total ; that on economic projects , such as site works , accounts for about a third ; and that on environmental projects , such as restoration of derelict land and housing , for a quarter . |
| 15 | We stayed at John Bannon 's Hotel in Manali Orchards for rather more time than we had intended . |
| 16 | David Mercer joined the editorial board ; so did Mo Teitlebaum , involved in TV , the poet Adrian Mitchell , looking for rather more than It could offer , and Robin Fior , a designer . |
| 17 | I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour . |
| 18 | Perhaps their own style , which became dominant in the twentieth century , did not emerge as such until sciences moved into the phase of theory and systematising which ( for rather obscure reasons ) suited them admirably . |
| 19 | While Harrison prepared yesterday to play a benefit concert at the Royal Albert Hall for the Natural Law Party , 51-year-old Starr said he was playing a series of dates in Europe in July for rather different reasons . |
| 20 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 21 | The so-to-speak general reviewers were not impressed much either , but for rather different reasons . |
| 22 | Jane Austen has her abbeys too , but she values them for rather different reasons . |
| 23 | They are , for example , responsible for rather different population sizes . |
| 24 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 25 | Departmental Visiting Days are divided into two groups which are intended for rather different purposes : |
| 26 | Similar pressures weighed on Desiderius , Waddo and Bladast , but for rather different reasons . |
| 27 | These two broad industrial groups account for rather less than half the total labour force but nearly two-thirds of the temporary labour force [ see Table 2.1 ] . |
| 28 | But it is also used in some cases for rather trivial offences . |
| 29 | However , in the Braniel a young male fieldworker found ( for rather obvious reasons ) that he was not passed on to any young women of a similar age to himself . |
| 30 | In other words , chords on the third to sixth degrees of the scale are only inversions of chords on the first and second degrees : Clearly this makes for rather meagre harmonic material if we limit ourselves only to triadic usage , so it is better to exploit other kinds of chord shapes which will serve to produce impressions of greater harmonic variety . |