Example sentences of "it [verb] a rather [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The legendary Miller ski , made in the USA , was one of them and it became a rather hot seller in the upmarket ski boutiques of London . |
2 | I think it has a rather shaky present here but it 's got a very solid present in other countries at the moment , where I think feminism is one of the most dynamic movements . |
3 | The jet is visible ( it has a rather different structure from jets considered elsewhere in this book because of the motion of the surrounding fluid ) . |
4 | So , point six erm okay look at the sentences one and two under six , one is apparently ill-formed , herself left , except in I think some Irish dialects actually yes , well it has a rather special meaning where herself is given special status erm in the context , but in normal English , English herself left is ill-formed , but two , Florence saw herself is fine herself is a reflective pronoun refers that herself each other or one another , the other are reflective pronouns . |
5 | It seemed a rather broad question , and one for which Lord John could not think of a specific answer . |
6 | It seemed a rather difficult thing to do , somehow , which surprised me , as I had n't realized I still had some atavistic buried fear of him because he was black . |
7 | It seems a rather clouded issue . ’ |
8 | The drawback with equal partial allocation is that it presents a rather arbitrary account of events . |
9 | All the same , it took a rather special sense of self to turn down an England trial at the age of 19 on the grounds that Scotland might want him instead . |
10 | It was a kind face , but it had a rather masterful look about it . |
11 | A favourable consensus may still exist , but it carries a rather battered look . |
12 | And it evinces a rather daring readiness to weave its fiction around the world of work , where private lives are inextricably bound up with talk of profit margins and raw materials . |
13 | It resembles a rather gangly float , being a plastic tube with a ball of polystyrene and a brass balance at one end . |