Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and rather [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colliding conversations are neatly synchronised but the main problem is that each part needs to convey a sense of tough experience with some firm characterisation which the self-conscious and rather tense cast could n't find in this patchy production . |
| 2 | This approach characterizes much of the brief and rather shameful history of anthropology , where the study of Man has not been of you and me so much as of those other strange folk whose bodies , habits and beliefs were alien , but whose lands , raw materials and pagan souls were so promising . |
| 3 | The more international brasserie dishes on the elegant and rather over-long menu reflect this straightforward approach : nothing flashy or too sauced and a strong injection of Britishness . |
| 4 | Budgets in the public sector should serve a number of purposes rather than the single and rather narrow concept of compliance . |
| 5 | I found Basil a shy and rather quiet man who had a deep sense of fun under his quiet exterior . |
| 6 | To many this might seem a dry and rather dusty concern ; but those who have watched the progress of AD can hardly fail to ask if the person they once knew is still somehow trapped within the body and mind of the sufferer . |
| 7 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |
| 8 | A lively and rather loud woman 's voice could be heard below them in the drive , speaking to Giancarlo in very quick Italian . |
| 9 | Let us start with a simple and rather stark model along the lines of Peacock and Rowley ( 1972 ) . |
| 10 | Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more , there is plenty here on the crowded , ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic , temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures , the art and music which pervaded the house , the much loved but somewhat casually raised children , the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models , nannies , general factotums , portrait sitters , studio visitors , plaster moulders , musicians , friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift . |
| 11 | From a brief and rather difficult passage in his judgment [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 400 , 413 , it seems that Barnett J. was disposed to consider that the submission was correct , but it evidently served only to underline his reasons for concurring with the district judge . |
| 12 | There are coach excursions to the great classical site at Epheseus ( a long and rather expensive day by Turkish standards ) , and visits to carpet making villages where you 'll have a fascinating glimpse of Turkish country life . |
| 13 | There has been a long and rather pointless debate on this question . |
| 14 | Ivy had her hands full with the driving , and although Zen soon gave up trying to follow their route on the maps he had brought with him , which proved to bear only a partial and rather disturbing resemblance to the landscape , like a mild hallucination , he kept up a show of poring over them to try and assuage his guilt at being a mere passenger , unable to share her burden . |
| 15 | A late and rather unreliable source also explained some of the northern discontent in 1469 as the result of the demands of the Hospital of St Leonard at York for payments of sheaves from the northern counties ( 13 , p.121 ; 40 , p.218 ) . |
| 16 | He made his name in the 1950s as a prize-winning and rather racy novelist . |
| 17 | Immediately we could sense a rough and rather unpleasant atmosphere , but we allowed ourselves to be swept up the steps of the first house into a howling throng of excitable spectators . |
| 18 | The top octave is not , however , much used as a general rule except for very special solo effects where a relentless and rather brutal characterization is being aimed at . |
| 19 | In fact it is complicated , immensely so , because the sum over paths or histories is a gigantic and rather ill-defined notion . |
| 20 | Sporadically , Katherine Mansfield conveys the volatile atmosphere in the comfortable apartment and Beatrice emerges as a deluded and rather pathetic exhibitionist . |
| 21 | From his porch , Joseph watched with a sullen and rather bleary eye : the night had been long on reminiscence and several barrels had been tapped to celebrate old victories . |
| 22 | Yet her intolerance was attenuated by a fundamental and rather unexpected liberalism . |
| 23 | To the beginner , the proliferation of academic criticism in particular can present a bewildering and rather daunting picture of competing schools of thought . |
| 24 | He lived with his wife , a thin and rather nervous girl with ragged blonde hair , in a second-floor flat that belonged to her widowed mother . |
| 25 | Both parents ordered him to stop calling his sister ‘ Brian ’ , a nickname derived from a slow and rather dull-witted snail who featured in a popular children 's TV show , ‘ The Magic Roundabout ’ . |
| 26 | His name , said Nicky , was Patrick Meehan , and he was a well-known and rather incompetent safe-blower , but with no record of violence . |
| 27 | However , you 'd buy an instrument like this for tone , not out-and-out volume , and this one possesses a weird and rather wonderful sound : a subtle , silvery treble , slightly nasal and Martin-like G and D strings , and a bass sound that 's tight but surprisingly rich . |
| 28 | No dust , no smears on the polished woodwork ; a faint and rather pleasing odour of antiseptic . |
| 29 | If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that our trade with Indonesia depends on a resolution to that question , that is a new and rather remarkable policy statement . |
| 30 | A woman with big beautiful hands who smokes too much writes down my name and what she needs to know and what I need to tell , and another worker goes through the same routine with a serene and rather silent woman in her early thirties , with three children and two plastic bags containing toys and toiletries — the mark of a mother on the run , all you can grab in a quick getaway . |