Example sentences of "rather [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases this was rather literally the case — the syrupy domestic interiors beloved of German nineteenth-century painters began to reappear with pictures of the Fuhrer on the wall and the Volkischer Beobachter lying folded on the table . |
| 2 | ‘ But we do want to create a pattern of rent differentials that will reflect rather better the relative values of different houses and flats . |
| 3 | It is not as if there was a competition involved , or any tie-breaker , but rather just a sales promotion . |
| 4 | His temperament , in fact , was rather more a golfer 's than a racing driver 's and I ca n't be sure that the likes of Arnold Palmer and other big sportsmen who 'd made good in the States were n't in some way role models for the young Mario . |
| 5 | The present exhibition is based on that show but is not aiming to provide a complete overview of the artist 's work , rather more a reflection on discrete themes and motifs . |
| 6 | The group in the Smoking Room that afternoon resembled rather more the Angry Brigade than the Gang of Five . |
| 7 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 8 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 10 | There was this view that the first world war would be rather like a re-run of some of these wars at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | This could operate rather like a personal TESSA and would be a er tax free savings account , which would allow a small business to save for a perhaps a major piece of machinery in a tax free environment . |
| 12 | And Chipping Field was rather like a , like a sort of prototype for Harlow New Town . |
| 13 | The third thanks contain some risk , contains some risk of other on the part of the direction of law and administration , who is going to hear me behave rather like a Captain Hook and raising the crocodile . |
| 14 | Yes , there 's the er sweat rag as you call it being tossed from DeFreitas to Lawrence who , as he dries his hands rather like a towel . |
| 15 | So it 's rather like a sandwich . |
| 16 | I think again the sort of picture that you get from books is rather like a stage set , with everything new from the year nineteen fifty-eight or whatever , all bundled into a room together , this is what it looked like . |
| 17 | Violence in society , I think , is rather like a fire . |
| 18 | They have n't revealed their presence because our solar system is being treated rather like a nature reserve — that they do n't want to interpose themselves and spoil a very classic example of study of a lesser civilization growing up . |
| 19 | One of the better ones at the moment are the with profits bonds , where you 're guaranteed a re returns , rather like an endowment , if you buy it as a single premium again . |
| 20 | Madam er deputy speaker , there is a feeling abroad in the country that an audit certificate is rather like an M O T certificate , it 's good for the minute that it was granted but it is perfectly useless thereafter . |
| 21 | For unemployed people the free time becomes rather like an empty desert with very , very few oases , and one of the results of our research was to find that , well first of all that unemployed people tend to describe their time in very negative ways , as being empty , as having nothing to do , little activity and so on in it . |
| 22 | This is rather like the American system of presidential elections except that in the American system , the people who are voted for are tied to a particular candidate , so it 's really just erm a convoluted way of having a direct system rather than a genuinely indirect system here . |
| 23 | I find myself rather like the old shell man having to look both ways at once , because part of my division is is town and part of it is country and they have very different views about the by-pass erm |
| 24 | For maybe just a momentary at this moment Mr chairman at this time of day , it 's rather like the carpet salesman saying to the lady , which one do you want , red , blue or green , not whether you want one or not . |
| 25 | The real danger of course is the forthcoming Police bill the proposal which were instituted by the present er Treasurer , erm er the Chancellor er and instituted further on by the present Home Secretary would lead to a centrally appointed Police committee at least fifty percent and a centrally appointed chairman , paid by the Home Secretary much rather like the Leicestershire Health Authority and of course this will severely undermine the local democratic accountability of the Police service . |
| 26 | er , yes my Lord , there 's the prior point that we er , we would submit as indicated in the skeleton of the eleventh of November that on its true construction , erm the central fund byelaw , article ten in particular er gives rise to a payment of a specified sum , ascertain sum , payable forthwith on demand , it 's rather like the example your Lordship gave of the Barclaycard or the cheque , if my learned friend is right |
| 27 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 28 | Y'know that somehow um , perhaps rather like the psychoanalytic notion of repression , something like that , somehow um er they 've been unable to remember for a number of years , possibly even decades , and er something triggers it . |
| 29 | It , it is a serious problem , I mean the area at the moment between east of Saltdean , erm Telscombe Cliffs , erm through to the east end of Peacehaven , is in the process of being protected by a seawall and an undercliff walk , rather like the area from erm Black Rock in Brighton through to Saltdean , because the rate of retreat of the cliffs there was so great erm that it would very shortly be threatening the houses on the clifftop at Peacehaven , so that erm a lot of money 's having to be spent to stop the erosion of the cliffs along that stretch . |
| 30 | And of course this is rather like the distinction made by William Goulding in Free Fall . |