Example sentences of "[be] rather [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took Caillié eleven years of meticulous planning and a further year to reach the fabled city in 1828 , which turned out to be rather a disappointment to him after such a hazardous journey . |
| 2 | There seems to be rather a lot of names for those who share a proclivity for their own sex . |
| 3 | There seems to be rather a lot of the latter about , if those astute fellows , the marketing and advertising men , are anything to go by . |
| 4 | The outstretched arms of the great statue of Christ overlooking Rio no longer appear to the inhabitants of the favelas below to be open in benediction or welcome ; in this city of violence , insecurity and ravaged humanity , it appears to be rather a gesture of resignation and despair . |
| 5 | The price to pay for being a vessel for divine birth seems to be rather a high one . |
| 6 | This may be rather a purist definition , but it does direct attention to the role of key settlements within the wider settlement system . |
| 7 | The pope did not send him a pallium until June 634 and , given the long-standing papal concern with the well-being of the church of Canterbury , a three-year interval between Honorius ' appointment and the sending of a pallium would seem to be rather a long time . |
| 8 | To what extent such metrical methods will be used only in specialized analyses remains to be seen , for as Stewart ( 1954 ) suggests , it may be rather a waste of effort to measure such specimens simply to verify what can so quickly be seen by eye . |
| 9 | It will , I suspect , be rather a long time before historians adopt SGML-authoring software as their own . |
| 10 | it would seem to be rather a waste of erm |
| 11 | The hangers could in fact go , go in there because that looked to be rather a good hanger , frankly . |
| 12 | This does tend to be rather an out-of-the-way place , I 'm afraid . |