Example sentences of "[verb] a rather [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 2 | The difference between the two information sheets was that one provided a rather sketchy outline of possible postoperative complications ( derived from a survey of what 10 house officers actually told hernia patients when they obtained consent ) , and the other contained a more comprehensive list ( boxes ) . |
| 3 | With respect to the coming to an end of a temporary job as a source of flows into unemployment , available evidence provided a rather unclear picture . |
| 4 | The contrast with the squalor of the old Cinque Port provided a rather romantic paradox . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , his attempts to deflect attention away from his private life has rather backfired because on one occasion to distract a rather persistent journalist he assured him that he was ‘ heavily into drugs and loved having sex with Chihuahuas . ’ |
| 7 | It has to cool a little and you must pour off excess juices , then it is turned out , becoming a rather tropical tarte tatin , sitting inches high on the puff pastry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The idea prompted Leapor to write a rather long poem about the follies of ambition , entitled ‘ Mopsus , or , The Castle Builder ’ . |
| 10 | Years later this lady of character was to write a rather moving piece entitled ‘ The Love Song of T. S. Eliot ’ secretary ( Confrontation , Long Island University , Winter 1975 ) ; and from what Eliot said once , though half-jocularly , when he and his wife and I were having a meal together , there was more than one secretary who could have composed such a Love Song , or at least who had the necessarily incentive or excuse , I vaguely recall the lady as of ample build and very cheerful , so she was able to put good face on her sad plight . |
| 11 | The gamine looks of Bernstein and the neatness of Debord have an aesthetic relevance which signifies a rather vague , but nevertheless compelling , reason for their inclusion in the text . |
| 12 | Cunningham-Burley ( 1985 ) found a rather similar pattern in a piece of work conducted around the same time in Scotland . |
| 13 | Today 's teaching force probably contains a rather higher proportion of workers who would prefer to be employed elsewhere than was the case 30 or 40 years ago . |
| 14 | The lower ground floor contains a rather characterless , Docklands-style pub . |
| 15 | So I collect my own granite gravel here in Devon , from an area where it contains a rather nice orange feldspar , and is thus a warm colour rather than the usual light grey of garden centre granite . |
| 16 | They thus occupy a rather special place in the spectrum of infectious human disease , since , without being able to find the germ responsible , it is not only rather difficult to be sure that the disease is present in the first place , but , having given a treatment for which there can be no de finite evidence of efficacy , since no organism has been eliminated , it can be very difficult to tell whether the infection has resolved or even whether the patient is better . |
| 17 | It can either form a thin , skin-like layer of solid lava over the liquid , rather like the skin that develops on custard or boiled milk , or else it develops a rather thick , rubbly surface layer consisting of loose blocks of solidified lava . |
| 18 | To suggest that the dicynodonts and the rhynchosaurs disappeared because of the decline of basically similar Gondwana arborescent plants would seem to indicate a rather simplistic view of both animal-plant in relationship , and plant evolution in general . |
| 19 | Finally , a pair of otters have boosted their popularity by acquiring a rather unusual skill . |
| 20 | It also seems to provide a rather better description of how to create and modify patterns that the original Illustrator 88 manual — or perhaps that 's just because the subject is being tackled in context rather than as an academic exercise . |
| 21 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 22 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 23 | … Crossing a wooden foot bridge to the right of the village street , passing the village church and climbing a rather steep hill , on the crest of which the road curves to the right , I soon see the cart-track which leads to the hall . |
| 24 | I 'd conjured a rather camp Major Sager , complete with Jimmy Edwards moustache and a bed of roses which he pruned incessantly . |
| 25 | He had n't really expected to actually see Mrs Constantine ; she was gaining a rather eccentric reputation . |
| 26 | A year or so after Prince Harry 's birth , there occurred a rather uncomfortable interview with both Waleses in discussion with Sir Alastair Burnet ( in November 1985 ) , in which it appeared that their roles had been totally reversed : the Princess had become articulate , while the Prince appeared almost monosyllabic . |
| 27 | ( British Steel , incidentally , a major backer , wisely contented itself with anchoring a rather elegant yacht outside , a nice counterpoise to Grimshaw 's distinctly nautical architecture . ) |
| 28 | The whole house has a rather appalling familiarity about it . |
| 29 | The event has a rather disappointing entry this year with a number of players choosing to play in the York Rosebowl at Strensall golf club , their scratch event . |
| 30 | Has a rather nasal song , an even more nasal , greenfinch-like ‘ dweeje ’ and a double whistle on a rising scale , ‘ hoo-hee ’ . |