Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a rather [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall be getting the full papers from the Coroner 's office eventually , and I run a rather cursory eye over the brief details here . |
| 2 | I killed a rather good bottle of Fleurie , as I remember it . |
| 3 | JACQUELINE McKEE , provisions , Darnley : ‘ The other day I served a rather distressed customer . |
| 4 | IN New Scientist in October 1979 I saw a rather unusual job advertisement : ‘ Plant collecting in the Amazon ’ . |
| 5 | I took a rather simpler route than Balboa — the Pan-American highway out of Panama City . |
| 6 | Once I had a rather nerve-racking experience with him when I was working the horse rake in the lower field . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've a rather special wine I 've been saving for you to sample , Naylor , ’ Guthrie addressed his nephew as they began to tuck into a starter of scampi in flaky pastry . |
| 8 | You see , I happened to be born in this house , so naturally I take a rather personal interest in its occupants . ’ |
| 9 | The fact is , Superintendent , I wrote a rather successful book set during the Second World War . |
| 10 | It 's obviously more specialized than some of the education erm at comparable level in other countries , both in France and in Germany erm they take erm as their eighteen-plus exam erm an exam which covers a rather wider field , erm so in that sense , oddly , we specialize early , which is an interesting comparison . |
| 11 | If one comes to the are northeast of Flaxton , I believe that for the avoidance of coalescence , one ought in the case of a village which has a rather wide boundary conservation area , for historical reasons basically , one ought to take the coalescence distance from the edge of that conservation boundary . |
| 12 | It is at first sight difficult to account for the anomalous position of Birmingham , which has a rather high productivity score , but whose proportion of first papers in the core journal set is low . |
| 13 | Atomistic theories have been challenged by alternative theories which project a rather different view of human nature . |
| 14 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 15 | It is evident from this and other comments , several describing treachery , that he often thought little of the English resistance , and on at least one occasion he did it injustice , saying under 1001 that an immense levy from Somerset and Devon met the raiders at Pinhoe , but fled immediately battle was joined , whereas an independent entry in the A text reports that the English fought with such forces as they could gather , which gives a rather different impression . |
| 16 | Recent reports indicate that only 100 houses rather than the projected 200 per annum have been provided which suggests a rather slow take-off ( Gilg 1981 , p. 110 ) . |
| 17 | And he 's been under somebody or other at Charing Cross Hospital I , who has a rather different approach to the whole thing , many other people 's involve rest and doing nothing and so on and so forth . |
| 18 | She has a rather histrionic outlook on life sometimes . |
| 19 | During the campaign , he was put out to grass with three old political warhorses , Denis Healey , Norman Tebbit and Roy Jenkins , who provided a rather genial breakfast-time alternative to the Old Devils . |
| 20 | There was no change in anxiety in the group who had received detailed information ( p=0.20 ) , whereas patients who received a rather superficial explanation of the risks were significantly less anxious afterwards ( p=0.012 ) , particularly if they had scored highly on the baseline anxiety assessment ( fig 1 ; r=0.27 , p=0.05 ) . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , each pattern ca n't be more than 16 steps long , a fact which leads to some limitations on time signatures and record resolutions ( for instance , you ca n't record triplet 16ths in a 4/4 bar ) , although there is a ‘ swing ’ function which allows you to program a rather rigid swing feel on 16ths . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , each pattern ca n't be more than 16 steps long , a fact which leads to some limitations on time signatures and record resolutions ( for instance , you ca n't record triplet 16ths in a 4/4 bar ) , although there is a ‘ swing ’ function which allows you to program a rather rigid swing feel on 16ths . |
| 23 | I hope that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will forgive me if I answer first the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster , North ( Sir J. Wheeler ) , who supported the Government 's position , before answering the remarks made by Opposition Members , who took a rather different line . |
| 24 | Oh , lord , she inwardly groaned ; if this was Vendelin Gajdusek , then she had a rather unhappy feeling that she had made a terrible start ! |
| 25 | We would visit her on occasions and I remember she had a rather splendid grandfather clock . |
| 26 | She had a rather broad face , pale as cream , and dotted with freckles . |
| 27 | Apparently , missing Glyn showed how incompetent she was , and she had a rather annoying vision of him going into see Ned Clarke and passing on the information with a sceptical look , a sort of ‘ what will these women get up to next ? ’ expression . |
| 28 | He bent to hear what she was saying , because she had a rather soft voice . |
| 29 | We got her from Sidney Fawcett , but she had a rather unfortunate weakness . |
| 30 | We have n't paid for it and therefore er , we er , you see a rather large item for provisions and minorities , that includes the ninety nine million consideration that er , went out of the door in July , as well , of course , as the substantial provisions that Thames made , in their own accounts for their property leases and for er , potential losses on the disposal of Reeves their West Coast , U S production company . |