Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a rather [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is true to say that Lizzie felt at the start very much under her mother 's shadow and in any case was naturally of a rather shy disposition — she was coaxed into recording quite early on in her career ; indeed , her voice can be heard ( singing Far Over the Forth ) on the same 1953 School of Scottish Studies tape devoted to her just-discovered mother . |
| 2 | Hence we have an up-ended Land Rover , a display of Royal Doulton china , and two pseudo-Classical showcases full of Marks & Spencer products occupying the ground floor , along with a rather tacky souvenir shop . |
| 3 | Again the Monkey-boy together with a rather fragile-looking , unusually pretty and even smaller friend , ‘ 'Artley ’ , proudly led away the horse . |
| 4 | The only minor disappointment is the rather short chapter on the personal social services which suffers somewhat from a rather overambitious attempt to cover too much ground ( i.e. the role of the statutory sector as well as the contribution of both the informal and voluntary sectors ) . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the activities of TNCs , wherever they are and in whatever industry , are increasingly being integrated into global processes of supply , production and marketing and the theorists of the new international division of labour have rendered great service by highlighting these phenomena even if they have done so in a rather one-sided manner . |
| 6 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 7 | The limitations of this study as an approach to consumption in general derive not only from a rather unbalanced subjectivism in the authors ' theoretical models , but also from the particular selection of objects of concern . |
| 8 | The contemporary academic debate among economists had become bogged down in a rather arid byway of marginal costing and subsidies , and provided little useful guidance on the substantive issues of the day . |
| 9 | Thomist theology and philosophy were laid down in a rather ossified form as the normative Catholic intellectual system , drawn from the Middle Ages and therefore free of any taint of modern influence . |
| 10 | A full and very black moustache covered his upper lip and during conversation he frequently smoothed it down in a rather absent-minded fashion with the forefinger of his right hand . |
| 11 | ‘ But you 're just as cold , and , ’ he added pointedly , ‘ continuing to tread mud all over a rather expensive Turkish rug — one that I 'm particularly fond of . ’ |
| 12 | Should the judges take it into their heads to question this ‘ authority ’ ( as occasionally they have ) then much of it is not too difficult to discount , as being obiter dicta , or as relating only to a rather narrow , specific point , ( e.g. the effect of a fraud on the Private Bills Committee of the House of Commons ) and leaving untouched the broader general question . |
| 13 | One might expect it to lead only to a rather vague pantheism which could make no real place either for religious institutions or for specific doctrines and formulations . |
| 14 | Much of this argumentation is , of course , concerned with very broad states of language , and , as I have pointed out , can apply only at a rather high level of generality , because it is likely that in EModE , as in PresE , there were varying conditioned allophones of /a/ ( perhaps some front and some back , or some low and some low-mid ) . |
| 15 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 16 | Whereas pre-marital foreplay averages thirty-two minutes , foreplay between married partners lasts only just over half as long at a rather hasty seventeen minutes . |
| 17 | This treatment is highly effective but smacks a little of a rather punitive approach to the patient now that long-acting penicillins are available which only need to be given once or twice a week . |
| 18 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |
| 19 | An apoplectic CLINT BOON immediately got on his case and the ill-informed impresario was sent away with a rather large flea in his ear . |
| 20 | The only bright spot was when Diana decided to give one of her presents away to a rather irascible nightwatchman . |
| 21 | He saw Antony standing talking animatedly to a rather bewildered looking police constable who looked relieved to get away . |
| 22 | horse racing fans from all over the country came to the Cotswolds yesterday for a rather special day … |
| 23 | horse racing fans from all over the country came to the Cotswolds yesterday for a rather special day … |
| 24 | Anybody who saw ‘ Radio Radio ’ might have written that off as a rather self-indulgent film . |
| 25 | She looked , in short , more like a rather eccentric and bloodthirsty follower of the stag-hounds than the headmistress of a nice school for children . |
| 26 | When flushed dashes up and towers with a shrill ‘ weet-a-weet ’ note , much louder than Wood Sandpiper , before flying off with a rather snipe-like flight . |
| 27 | For those who did n't go , they started off with a rather perfunctory ‘ Summer Babe ’ , trawled through most of the album and then went through two shambolic encores . |
| 28 | All in good fun of course , but we were always in a rather vulnerable position with the good natured rig workers . |
| 29 | Then , one night , when I was slowly asleep , it issued forth in a rather unexpected fashion and I missed it . |
| 30 | In this country , the creation of Interdisciplinary Research Centres ( IRCs ) within the universities , funded by the research councils alone or in collaboration with industry , has been recognised by the ABRC ( Roberts , Phillips ) , but the assessment structures needed for the evaluation of such complex proposals are still in a rather fluid state . |