Example sentences of "rather a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the ranks of the clergy and religious orders themselves , there was a far from complete , centralized structure , but rather a dual one . |
| 2 | A main real difference in the experience which marked it off from fundamentalist and some pentecostal forms of conversion experience was that the outcome was not the assurance of being saved , but rather a spirituality of trust in Christ based on repentance and the conviction that God forgives repentant sinners . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid I know rather a lot of people who wanted to kill Mr Phipps . ’ |
| 4 | Deception was another of the subjects that they knew rather a lot about at the Foreign Office . |
| 5 | In truth , I found her rather a pain on the subject and merely parried her constant questions about my job-hunting activities . |
| 6 | I 've got rather a lot on my mind . ’ |
| 7 | I 've had rather a surprising piece of news , that 's all . ’ |
| 8 | It was in fact rather a nice day and my spirits were starting to rise . |
| 9 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
| 10 | She has rather a thing about patchwork . |
| 11 | It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise . |
| 12 | He began explaining , straight on , then first right , on to the second set of lights … etcetera … etcetera … it 's rather a long walk , sir , he concluded . |
| 13 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 14 | When Mary Queen of Scots went to Edinburgh she bewailed going out among savages , and she herself went from a sixteenthcentury court that held but a barbarous , or rather a drivelling and idiotic and superficial travesty of the Italian culture as it had been before the debacle of 1527 . |
| 15 | ln that case the last clause — ‘ in that land were we born ’ — is no patriotic bugle-note , but rather a flat acknowledgement of what can not be helped . |
| 16 | But a time arrives when you would rather do almost anything rather than sit in a stuffy fringe theatre on a Saturday night with a dozen heads all nodding aggrievedly in agreement on how South Africa is now really rather a nasty place . |
| 17 | We really ca n't see much future for a gang of derelicts like this — ‘ rather a favourable specimen of what is best in our English culture ’ , one character blithely insists — and they do n't see any for themselves . |
| 18 | Party officials full of earnest endeavour were passing down all-Russian directives from Moscow in rather a wooden manner . |
| 19 | It was rather a huge success in sociopolitical terms , in vastly expanding the range of the shareholding classes . |
| 20 | Then Ramsey said , ‘ I think you will find Lincoln rather a quiet place . ’ |
| 21 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
| 22 | The building industry has today an appreciably larger number of men at work than in the years immediately before 1939 , though probably rather a smaller percentage of the total are building new houses . |
| 23 | Rather a theoretical conflict indicates that we need to pluralize the notion of repression , as we need to pluralize that of homophobia , and even that of desire itself . |
| 24 | What intrigues me about that earlier period , especially its drama , is a mode of transgression which finds expression through the inversion and perversion of just those pre-existing categories and structures which its humanist counterpart seeks to transcend , to be liberated from ; a mode of transgression which seeks not an escape from existing structures but rather a subversive reinscription within them , and in the process their dislocation or displacement . |
| 25 | Or is it rather a transgressive reinscription , a demonic perversion of the sacred ? |
| 26 | It was rather a more specific and harsher problem which , to put it bluntly , was to survive as Westland was drifting on to the rocks of insolvency . |
| 27 | It was a good day and Svolvær looked rather a special place , but we were now tired and a campsite was priority . |
| 28 | It is not as she thinks a desire to ‘ make the most of it ’ , to somehow claim importance , but rather a recognition that in this oppressive society women need the care and emotional support of other women . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ Fritz went red , which , Erika thought , made rather a nice change from her own blushing , and looked at his shoes . |
| 30 | Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted . |