Example sentences of "in the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Elections held in the overwhelmingly ethnic-Albanian Serbian province of Kosovo on May 24 , declared illegal by the Serbian authorities , were won by the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo ( DSK ) , which secured most of the seats in the 130-member Assembly . |
| 5 | In the curiously claustrophobic , hierarchic world of the organisation , with the competitive pressures for promotion and jockeying for status , and the paranoid reactions this could induce , a few words spoken with a confident air of authority in certain ears at certain times could do incalculable harm , in my view . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Concrete flyovers , wholesale clearance for new routes , and concern over noise and lead pollution , were seen as affronts to living conditions ; in the environmentally conscious 1970s new highway planning became politically beleaguered . |
| 10 | Mr Moxen went on : ‘ The results of the study will provide a series of key recommendations and action points which raise environmental standards in Scottish industry and increase the competitiveness of Scottish industry in the environmentally conscious Nineties . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Madness would seem to be reigning in the rather exclusive world of old Cartier ‘ objets d'art ’ . |
| 13 | Nor did he reveal any keener affinity with Schubert in the rather mechanical , plainly stated accompaniments that he provided for the mezzo Yvonne Howard . |
| 14 | She heard his voice downstairs , talking in the rather affected boom he put on for strangers . |
| 15 | McAfee 's programming origins are reflected in the rather terse style of his programs . |
| 16 | in science and technical subjects , in the rather spartan buildings of the school ( all Chinese educational buildings are very spartan by our standards ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is a square arrangement of two carbon monoxide and two iodide ligands attached to the central rhodium , which is in the rather low formal oxidation state of +1 . |
| 20 | The catalysted conversion of methanol to ethanol by arrangement of two carbon monoxide and two iodide ligands attached to the central rhodium , which is in the rather low formal oxidation state of + 1 . |
| 21 | Harriet works for a time in a ‘ gown-shop ’ and takes part in the rather gruesome beauty treatment of the other ‘ sales-ladies ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The story line in the smoothed version of panel ( b ) is a lot clearer than in the rather jangled panel ( a ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ? |