Example sentences of "rather [adj] [noun sg] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reason for the changing pattern of marriage is probably a rather different attitude to the starting of a family . |
| 2 | Yet ‘ Landmark Leeds ’ ( as Mr Trickett 's pet project is known ) is a rather dubious asset to the city . |
| 3 | There was already a rather perfunctory air to the Queen 's visit three years ago , as if it were just a required coda to her tour of China . |
| 4 | A succession of full chords for wind and horns bears a rather oppressive resemblance to the sound of a harmonium if it continues for many bars without relief . |
| 5 | Erm Roosevelt was er despite the er rather unusual route to the presidency , really rather a good president but he had a , he had a very particular view of the presidency which was one which he shared with Lincoln but he took up Lincoln 's arguments and , and developed it further and I quote from er Roosevelt 's autobiography , which is rather more revealing than most autobiographies , erm Roosevelt was n't modest I should say in case you , if you wonder when I read you something . |
| 6 | However , this was seen as a rather negative solution to the problem and so another more positive approach was tried — brainstorming . |
| 7 | One unfortunate consequence of this rather cavalier approach to the notion of class by sociolinguists is that meaningful debate on the question of how linguistic variability can most pertinently be related to social structure tends not to take place . |
| 8 | The professor of experimental physics , a grand old man called Wien , was displeased that this brilliant young theorist had adopted a rather cavalier attitude to the laboratory classes which were provided . |
| 9 | This is perhaps a rather dramatic solution to the problem of how you treat gender on television ! |
| 10 | This treatment is highly effective but smacks a little of a rather punitive approach to the patient now that long-acting penicillins are available which only need to be given once or twice a week . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But he had a rather military approach to the work and he did run some rather tough courses for some of the boys , so one of the parents complained . |