Example sentences of "was rather a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise . |
| 2 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 3 | It was rather a huge success in sociopolitical terms , in vastly expanding the range of the shareholding classes . |
| 4 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
| 5 | It was rather a more specific and harsher problem which , to put it bluntly , was to survive as Westland was drifting on to the rocks of insolvency . |
| 6 | The natural philosophy of the ancient Greeks ‘ was rather a dream than science ’ . |
| 7 | She was rather a slow reader as English was n't her first language . |
| 8 | there was rather a large congregation , and I was late , I found myself sitting more to the front than usual , in fact opposite the lectern . |
| 9 | Although I was sceptical as to the Brighton affair , I could not help seeing that there was rather a look about Mr Wilson sometimes ; for instance when , as occasionally happened , his wife 's leg was too bad for her to go shopping and he went alone . |
| 10 | I thought it was rather a bad sign that I was told I could , as a family friend , go in at any time . |
| 11 | There was something rather reckless in my attending the present lectures at all , because it was in the depths of winter , and from where I now lived it was rather a long walk to the town — over a mile , at any rate . |
| 12 | ‘ The principal was rather a formidable lady . |
| 13 | Given this , the clitoris was rather a problem , because to argue from biology and physiology gave one no defence against the fact that the clitoris was the female organ of pleasure . |
| 14 | He thought she was rather a strange girl ; more like a boy most of the time , but there were parts about her he really liked . |
| 15 | The first archbishop he appointed , Adalbert ( not to be confused with the martyr of that name who preached to the Liutizi Slavs and was greatly venerated by Otto III ) , was rather a grandee , and not above gratuitously forceful interventions in the feuds of the Saxon aristocracy . |
| 16 | Honey was sweet and gentle from the day she was born , so it was rather a surprise when she came home from the horse breaker with a completely changed personality . |
| 17 | Remaindering was rather a dirty word in the book trade , and those involved were known as ‘ vultures ’ and ‘ scavengers ’ . |
| 18 | So it was rather a question of running the gauntlet when passing over the Sayers ' land . |
| 19 | Mind , he was rather a wild card was Granda , rather too fond of strong drink . |
| 20 | Horses were his speciality , and although he was rather a stout and shortish man-he sported a moustache - he was quite strong . |
| 21 | And as a matter of fact , mad as it sounds , it was rather a good idea . ’ |
| 22 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 23 | Presently a remark of Elizabeth 's started him off on capital punishment , because it emerged that Ivy was rather a friend to hanging . |
| 24 | As Stephen Wood points out in his Introduction to his edited book discussing the de-skilling thesis ( Wood 1982 , 15 ) , Braverman appears to assume ‘ that prior to Taylorism control was not in the hands of management , but was rather a kind of management by neglect ( the laissez-faire method , as Taylor called it ) , in which workers knew more than managers ’ . |
| 25 | As a result the impression has grown up that Wordsworth was rather a simple soul — an impression aided and abetted by the maid at Rydal Mount , who told visitors that her master 's study was ‘ in the fields ’ . |
| 26 | Far from seeing the ascent of Labour in the immediate postwar period as a spontaneous response to frustrated hopes and deteriorating social conditions , it was rather a resolution or convergence of deeper currents at a specific historical conjuncture . |
| 27 | There was rather a lot of it , and he had enough work already , dealing with a mass transfer of pilots and ground staff . |
| 28 | But the note that accompanied it made no mention of the choice of name and it was rather a cold note . |
| 29 | The second song was rather a sad one with the refrain of a forsaken lover or a widower : |
| 30 | His mother was rather a stranger to him , so he did n't feel the loss of her so keenly . |