Example sentences of "[pron] [is] rather a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is rather a lot I think . |
| 2 | One example of this is the dinner at the forge , when there are guests , and they all talk about Pip as if he were inferior and Joe almost trying to comfort him , adds more and more gravy to his plate every time they say something negative about him , which is rather a lot . |
| 3 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 4 | The reason for this , according to the attitudinist , is the distinction between belief , which sets out to represent how things are , and attitude , which is rather a matter of how one wishes ( not merely idly , but in a way which can produce appropriate action ) them to be . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's rather a lot of paperwork here , things that you should be aware of . ’ |
| 6 | " There 's rather a lot of them , though , " said Marion . |
| 7 | They look rather sickly and there is rather a lot of black dust on the leaves and fruits . |
| 8 | There is rather a lot of evidence that what laymen especially valued was the propitiatory function with God of beautiful worship , with splendid chants , vestments woven by the most skilful women , and lavish expenditure of gold on the book covers seen in church and on the altar crosses . |
| 9 | And so it 's not a case of our waiting it 's rather a case of our receiving . |
| 10 | Well , because it 's , it 's rather a case of the blind leading the the blind , erm |
| 11 | ‘ It 's rather a change , actually , ’ he murmured , ‘ to find a woman who does n't pick at her food and moan about endless diets . |
| 12 | It 's rather a relief . |
| 13 | I , too , think it 's rather a lot of money . ’ |
| 14 | Cos otherwise it 's rather a lot to eat for one person . |
| 15 | ‘ Then surely it 's rather a waste of time to bury yourself away on a Saturday night when you 'll have the bulk of the work to contend with tomorrow — when the club 's closed . ’ |
| 16 | Considering the rock at Tremadog feels so solid on a small scale , it 's rather a shame that it has a large scale tendency to become part of the scree at the foot of the crag ! |
| 17 | Once you 've created the jobs for people it has given the economies an upturn and I feel it 's rather a shame that the erm the great problems of the of the Germans particularly have put that pressure for high interest rates through the er E R M , through those currencies and one , I think , good thing of Britain 's disaster last year , with with their position in the E R M , is that by lowering interest rates , if we only had a government who wanted to use that opportunity probably , we could train people for for work . |
| 18 | Just one point , it 's rather a shame they ca n't be open at weekends ? |
| 19 | ‘ It 's rather a hike . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It is rather a find , ’ she agreed . |
| 21 | But maybe it is rather a response to the real threat which we single expatriate women , with all our means and mobility , present to family structures here . |
| 22 | But for the young , it is rather a question of the scales falling from their eyes , and having nothing to believe in any more . |
| 23 | One that it is rather a myth . |
| 24 | Curiosity satisfied , it is rather a relief to emerge from darkness to daylight . |
| 25 | It is rather a place to make a man forget that there is any necessity for treason ! ’ |
| 26 | I believe that this view is too strong , that , although porn does reinforce certain attitudes towards women , in the main , it is rather a symptom , and not a major part of the cause , of power relations that exist outside the pages of Penthouse , Playboy , etc. , and outside the cinemas in Soho or Amsterdam ( see Moye , 1985 ) . |
| 27 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 28 | It is rather a display of witty dexterity , depending for its effect upon a sharing of specialized learning between author/narrator and readers/listeners . |
| 29 | It is rather a perspective that recognizes and takes full account of the reality of such crime within the world and which stands at a distance from it . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's rather a psycho , ’ Robert Kennedy said , off the record , in 1964 . |