Example sentences of "a fairly [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aircraft at Wellesbourne Mountford , under its new ownership might well be a suitable candidate and a fairly accessible location for public viewing . |
| 2 | With financial help from the British Government , Imperial Airways was established in 1924 , providing a fairly regular service for private passengers , to various parts of the world . |
| 3 | Face packs are a fairly regular part of our beauty routine but how about a hair pack ? |
| 4 | We have evidence that booty was divided among the troops as a fairly regular method of reward ; during the conquest of the Avars , there was even sufficient loot to send gifts to distant Mercia in England . |
| 5 | Erm , we 're meeting er on a fairly regular basis with them , to see if we can seek some solution . |
| 6 | Well you see I sit down on a I sit down on a fairly regular basis with now and try to give her direction and er point out , and I do make the point , about every time and , right ? |
| 7 | I think at least some of the representatives — the head boy and girl and deputy head boy of Priory School , and some of the people from Ringmer School and so on — at least have contact now on a fairly regular basis with local councillors , local council officials and so on . |
| 8 | I think it 's been successful in trying to break down barriers a bit , and I think at least some of the representatives erm the head boy and girl and deputy head boy and girl at Priory School and some of the people from Rings School and so on at least have contact now on a fairly regular basis with local councillors , local council officials and so on . |
| 9 | Whenever there were parties , which were a fairly regular occurrence with twenty five staff and no other form of entertainment , Eva Burrows was always " tile centre of happenings ' . |
| 10 | In the middle of the nineteenth century it was discovered that the highs and lows of sunspot activity recur over a fairly regular cycle of 11 years . |
| 11 | Grieving for a person is hard physical work , following a fairly regular set of stages ( Parkes , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | He managed to put over a fairly complex argument in a brilliantly simple way . ’ |
| 13 | Party spokesman Roger Stott gave a fairly standard rendition of the excuse in the August/September 1990 issue of the NCU journal . |
| 14 | Before the 1972 Act , it was usual for principal authorities to have a fairly standard pattern of senior officials — a medical officer of health , an engineer and surveyor , a chief education officer and so on , but there has been a development towards different breakdowns of functions and new titles . |
| 15 | So I think that th the scheme that erm Pearson uses is er , not at all dissimilar to what would be a fairly standard practice in the United States . |
| 16 | A fairly dispassionate analysis by Best ( 1980 ) indicates that the initiation of area bombing of cities resulted from the rejection of strategic in favour of indiscriminate bombing by those in charge of British Bomber Command , and the acceptance of their arguments by Churchill in August 1940 , when the Luftwaffe 's attacks on British airfields in the Battle of Britain was threatening to damage irretrievably the RAF 's powers of retaliation ( Best , 1980 , p. 276 ) . |
| 17 | The man ( if it was a man ) was probably a fairly junior member of the firm ; if only Henry could find a way of getting past him to the people really in the driving seat . |
| 18 | Alternatively , programmed decisions can be entrusted to a fairly junior level of management . |
| 19 | A fairly narrow range of people are responsible for key decisions ; some of these attain such positions through democratic representational procedures , but they co-opt others to their ranks . |
| 20 | There are also practical difficulties in obtaining electronic spectra outside a fairly narrow range of frequencies covering the visible and near-ultraviolet ( UV ) regions from 14 000 to 50 000 cm -1 ( corresponding to wavelengths of 700 to 200 nm ) . |
| 21 | It can only operate in a fairly narrow range of light intensity . |
| 22 | Stretching frequencies vary over a fairly narrow range in a set of related compounds . |
| 23 | Most people , despite protestations to the contrary , stick to a fairly narrow band of behaviours . |
| 24 | We will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know , look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but I think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term , we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme . |
| 25 | Yet an evaluation seems so often to be understood more as a sort of independent commission of enquiry undertaken at a fairly late stage in the life of a programme or project by ‘ experts ’ from outside whose findings may or may not be in straightforward language . |
| 26 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 27 | On a global basis there is a fairly strong relationship between lithospheric vulnerability and the distribution of hot spots ; few hot spots are to be found in areas of low lithospheric vulnerability whereas they are common in areas of high vulnerability . |
| 28 | ‘ For these reasons I think there is a fairly strong case for marketing it as a health product but it will also probably be considered a luxury , ’ Mrs Rowan added . |
| 29 | The Code of Practice on Stop and Search , Annex B , explains this as being a fairly strong suspicion with a concrete base that could be evaluated by an objective third person . |
| 30 | Light : Requires a fairly strong light from the top . |