Example sentences of "[prep] a rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a rather unnecessarily long and elaborate trial , Justice Day 's summing-up was refreshingly brief . |
| 2 | Here , after a rather shaky start in the colonial period ( section 4.4.2 ) , forestry is now practised on a sustainable basis involving a wide range of silvicultural techniques . |
| 3 | After a rather colloquial account of his rise to the Indian Test team and his heroics since , there follows an extensive gallery of colour photographs to illustrate his story . |
| 4 | Ten years later , of course , he did come out after a rather agonizing process and he is now a gay activist himself in South London and the Labour Party . |
| 5 | After a rather tricky , sea-washed beginning , the true nature of the rock becomes apparent . |
| 6 | Then , after a rather casual interview oil my part , I was appointed to the West Riding staff with Rosemary . |
| 7 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 8 | After a rather brutal schooling in Glasgow , he 'd moved south with his , by now , widowed mother . |
| 9 | Youth , for instance , is something that should be awarded after a rather stiff examination to men of experience , not wasted on mere boys . |
| 10 | So it presented a mix of business operations of a rather specialised type , but also a classic area of interface between the public and private sector . |
| 11 | The whole of East-West trade is at present only a small piece of a small slice of a rather small cake . |
| 12 | So it was a remarkable jump into the headlines and popular acceptance , even if it was of a rather limited nature . |
| 13 | Indeed , he thought De Cive contained things of a rather different nature from anything so far in political philosophy : it contained demonstrations of its conclusions . |
| 14 | These three types of tree , although slightly different in form , have abstract mathematical properties in common which are embodied in the theorems of a rather obscure branch of mathematics called graph theory . |
| 15 | Naturally , such a tale of musical turpitude sat well at the centre of a rather glibly ( and often inaccurately ) assembled documentary devoted to the somewhat tendentious premiss of its headline-catching title ; but it illustrates , too , how muddled and superficial — not to say unpleasingly moralistic — thinking on these matters can be . |
| 16 | There 's also a Renaissance fountain , and an extremely odd conglomeration of church buildings comprising one ancient ruin , one proper church , and the skeleton faade and nave of a rather pompous and unfinished 18th-century abbey . |
| 17 | One can sit leafing through glossy English magazines , reading in House and Garden about somebody 's ‘ elegantly understated ’ home in Kensington while passing within yards of a rather more understated Egyptian peasant 's home of mud-brick . |
| 18 | This puzzle was at last unravelled in a series of brilliant papers of a rather technical and mathematical nature by the English geneticist and entomologist William Hamilton ( 1964 , 1971a , b , 1972 ) . |
| 19 | One recent advertisment carried a photograph of a rather seedy individual in a large hat and dirty raincoat which it stressed was precisely the type of applicant not required . |
| 20 | Along with the mingling of the genres go the other stylistic features of a rather modish postmodernism : pastiche ; montage ; paraphrase ; parody ; allusion ; quotation ; often adding up to no more than a cultivated divertissement . |
| 21 | After the Moabite armies had been wiped out , all of the enemy women ‘ that have known man by lying with him ’ were ordered to be killed , a public health measure of a rather drastic order , although one that was highly effective . |
| 22 | This treatment is highly effective but smacks a little of a rather punitive approach to the patient now that long-acting penicillins are available which only need to be given once or twice a week . |
| 23 | When seen in conjunction with the Cloister Court , of which it forms the northern side and which offers some fine Tudor brickwork , it presents a showpiece of a rather more homely kind than do the grand stone courts of some other colleges . |
| 24 | Yet another youth project of a rather specialist nature is being carried out in the north east area . |
| 25 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 26 | The disappearance of the metropolitan counties , and the adoption by many urban Labour councils of a rather more pragmatic approach towards central government , eased some of the particular difficulties facing the Partnerships . |
| 27 | Suppose , though , that we wanted a sample of a rather more difficult group . |
| 28 | But an effective biological weapon — in the shape of a rather peculiar Chinese fish — may be near at hand . |
| 29 | In reality , the tailless condition is a genetic deformity of a rather serious kind . |
| 30 | In the two months since I installed the anemone it has visited virtually every area of the tank , often selecting the most uncomfortable looking places to stay , including perching on the very top of a rather spiky coral ‘ tree ’ . |