Example sentences of "rather [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver said when I told him this story rather hesitatingly , though I expect my nerves were to do with talking about Gillian . |
| 2 | In fact we were , rather condescendingly , informed that teaching methods had changed since the 1960s and we could not expect our child to be educated in the same manner as we ourselves had been . |
| 3 | Father Timothy laughed rather condescendingly . |
| 4 | Second then , homophobia often intersects with other kinds of phobia and hatred : in this case , and rather economically , not only misogyny but also racism and xenophobia . |
| 5 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
| 6 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 7 | It 's part of the the I I P I actually picked up , rather irritatingly retrospectively , erm some things from the tech , erm that actually take me through the various stages of I I P . |
| 8 | ‘ Argol , ’ cried Quigley , who was , rather gamely I thought , trying to make some radical alterations to his cosmological system . |
| 9 | ( There is , rather confusingly , more than one definition of a road in transport legislation . ) |
| 10 | From Figure 8.1 it can be seen that , for all tests with symmetrical distributions of scores ( known technically , and rather confusingly , as ‘ normal distributions ’ ) , any score which differs from the mean by two or more standard deviations will be unusual and therefore worthy of further consideration . |
| 11 | The Barshai Vancouver performance comes , rather confusingly , in two formats — on the CBC Records issue listed above , and as one of the discs in Conifer 's special Woolworth series . |
| 12 | When we asked Ranteallo how many times his father had been married , he replied rather confusingly : " Marriages , only five . |
| 13 | Aleksandrova rather confusingly calls the northern and southern belts arctic tundra and subarctic tundra , separating them by the 6°C July isotherm . |
| 14 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 15 | I am afraid , rather weakly , I said that I would speak to Max . |
| 16 | Generally silent , but may croak or grunt rather weakly . |
| 17 | He tried to protest , but rather weakly . |
| 18 | Baxter , rather weakly , tried to find a virtue in separating the express and local services . |
| 19 | They were stained with the Grimelius silver method , reacted rather weakly with neuron specific enolase antibodies , and in general strongly with chromogranin A antibodies , while they did not express argent affinity or immunoreactivity for gastrin , somatostatin , enteroglucagon , human pancreatic polypeptide , and peptide YY . |
| 20 | The relationship between u τ and the external velocity U O for a boundary layer depends ( rather weakly ) on the Reynolds number . |
| 21 | Program start-up is rather annoyingly interrupted by a 15s delay at a screen showing Jandel Scientific 's reminder of the licence agreement , followed by a summary screen showing the program 's status in terms of memory use , maths coprocessor installation , estimated processing speed rating for the detected hardware , and various user-modifiable program settings . |
| 22 | It was also ( rather optimistically ) decided that in future only one new government employee can be recruited for every three who leave the service . |
| 23 | Lord Beddington , mindful of the same appointment , was rather optimistically emerging from the shop with a bottle of Lockyers Sulphur Hair-restorer , and six tablets of Amiral soap ( ‘ Removes Burden of Corpulency ’ ) . |
| 24 | Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward . |
| 25 | Watson was determined that his company , rather optimistically named ‘ International Business Machines ’ , would be the most respectable , worthy , and successful company in the world . |
| 26 | In the sixties , polls showed that , even if they believed that they themselves were doing rather well , most British people felt that their country was doing rather badly , and falling further behind foreign competitors . |
| 27 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 28 | But good bloodily triumphs at the end of a film made by James Marcus rather like a Warner Brothers gangster picture set incongruously in Soho and gone rather badly off-key . |
| 29 | He had n't on the one occasion he 'd been there — in fact they 'd treated him rather badly , although he did n't like to admit as much . |
| 30 | In the major religions of the world , women seem to fare rather badly . |