Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] rather [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Veronica 's father was Lord Somebody-or-other , she reminded herself , and did n't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs ? |
| 2 | He went from there to a café called Café des Beaux Arts , decorated inside with rather dismal and bad frescoes . |
| 3 | Is there any real development and trend that could be explained perhaps in rather simple language to people like myself ? |
| 4 | Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister . |
| 5 | I was here to win at all costs and did so in rather fine style . ’ |
| 6 | It is likely that , whichever it is , it will tell you about the buyers of your product and its competitors only in rather broad terms — those of the basic demographics : age , sex , social grade , area , presence of children . |
| 7 | And he had done it tactfully as well , just mentioning to one or two people who had Dierdriu 's ear that Grainne and Fergus were sometimes seen together in rather questionable circumstances . |
| 8 | The ‘ untalented , uneducated and ill-disposed louts ’ I described above in rather intemperate language before taking my walk will make much of the ‘ coincidence ’ ( as they will put it , with heavy irony , drawing out each syllable like bubble-gum ) that Miller also appears to share the outward marks of my own alleged ill-health . |
| 9 | Comfort shook it and murmured something formally polite , but she looked him over in rather obvious disdain , tilting back her small head to see his face . |
| 10 | The modes are usually of rather low frequency , and their effect can often be ignored except in the far IR region and at low frequencies in Raman spectra . |
| 11 | Any reasonably well-known professional scientist will receive from time to time letters written by bell-meaning people who indicate , usually in rather guarded terms , that they have in their possession the solution to the riddle of the universe and they just need a little help in polishing it up or propagating it . |
| 12 | Order large glass of dry sherry and feel its warmth penetrate toes , making up for rather painful new shoes . |
| 13 | Saturn your ruler is in exceptionally mood now so it is likely that you will have to put up with rather spartan conditions but you know how much is at stake for the future so you are happy to do without |
| 14 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 15 | When I was told this , I recalled hearing it said , back in the 1930s , that these visits had been observed by a young writer or two who , out of rather callous curiosity , would follow Eliot at a discreet distance , and observe him to turn round , as he approached the door , in order to see whether anybody had been spying on him . |
| 16 | And he 's always been pretty decent — bailing me out of rather tricky situations I got into , and not coming down too heavily about them . ’ |
| 17 | Highly gregarious , and collectively noisy , they fly fast and direct , but often with rather laboured wing-beats and in V-formation . |
| 18 | The simple designs burst upon a tired market which offered little else but large floral designs often in rather garish colours . |
| 19 | In Italy a roughly similar consular bulletin on trade relations with foreign countries and means of developing them appeared from 1862 , though irregularly and often in rather skimpy issues . |
| 20 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 21 | With his height , Walsh is obviously able to exploit bounce even on rather flat surfaces , and his stock ball to the right-hander is that which cuts back in , usually from just short of a length . |
| 22 | There are , however , some simple rules that enable us to deduce the symmetry of a vibration from the band envelope of the corresponding IR or Raman band , even at rather limited resolution , where the 2B spacing of components of P and R branches , for instance , is not resolved . |
| 23 | On the other side , ‘ some years ago we observed that quite a large proportion of the concentrated acids we sold was diluted by our customers on site and sometimes in rather unsatisfactory conditions ; small companies did n't have facilities to dilute acid safety — it generates a lot of heat . |
| 24 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 25 | The new shows , despite being on at rather awkward times , are proving to be more wholesome affairs and are even starting to include interviews with session guests . |
| 26 | But , speaking personally , I regard this passage as an illumination ; the Wordsworths suddenly become people instead of rather vague and sublime presences ; furthermore , they become people one would like to have met . |
| 27 | We should listen to how people actually want to make a contribution and base our structures on their views , instead of rather male structures which demand substantial commitment . |
| 28 | Experience in the use of such categories can enable observers of group behaviour to give constructive and relevant feedback to group members , instead of rather generalised or anecdotal descriptions of what has appeared to have taken place . |