Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in rather [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Is there any real development and trend that could be explained perhaps in rather simple language to people like myself ?
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 I was here to win at all costs and did so in rather fine style . ’
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