Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Once , at Lisson Grove , their car drew up alongside a rather battered Ford Cortina . |
| 5 | So it has proved , with that alert enthusiast Ashdown turning to the eminently qualified Anthony Lester , QC , who has come up with a rather different interpretation of events to that brought forward by the Law Officers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We arrived rather exhausted at Peking airport , but were immediately met enthusiastically by a rather formidable delegation of ministry of education officials , people from this or that Revolutionary committee , and members of the Peking Language Institute . |
| 9 | The lace holes on his shoes are mapped out in a rather racy zigzag pattern , and he used to play in Patti Smith 's band . |
| 10 | The lace holes on his shoes are mapped out in a rather racy zigzag pattern , and he used to play in Patti Smith 's band . |
| 11 | As soon as he confessed what he knew , fumbling the hideous admission as they came out of a rather good film about love that he had hardly been able to stand , she managed to make it seem that it was he , not she , who was the disturber of their lives . |
| 12 | With two broken legs he 'd have starved to death if he had n't been cared for … now he can look forward to a rather more chirpy 1992 . |
| 13 | For example , computing has infiltrated most professions now without any great ballyhoo , and in many of the ‘ people-professions ’ the attitude to the client has shifted steadily towards a rather less authoritarian one . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I get up at a rather late hour . |
| 18 | Everyone was too interested in singing to the actions of the game to take much notice , but as the game came to an end the Brownies saw that Brown Owl was gazing upwards with a rather troubled look on her face . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | New York dealers A la Vieille Russie and Didier Aaron Inc have teamed up with a rather unlikely presentation of the art of Alexandre Iacovleff ( 1887–1938 ) . |
| 23 | In the House of Lords , the argument went off on a rather different tack . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He saw Antony standing talking animatedly to a rather bewildered looking police constable who looked relieved to get away . |
| 26 | Then , one night , when I was slowly asleep , it issued forth in a rather unexpected fashion and I missed it . |
| 27 | ‘ A few more minutes to go , ’ she said , her face cheerful beneath dark hair scraped back into a rather severe French roll . |
| 28 | Ten years later , of course , he did come out after a rather agonizing process and he is now a gay activist himself in South London and the Labour Party . |
| 29 | It was only a short step from here to the so-called ‘ New Pop ’ of Duran Duran , Wham ! and Culture Club , with ABC standing by as a rather aloof and better-dressed alternative . |
| 30 | At the sound of Melissa 's strident tones she pulled up sharply and saw that her second least favourite person was standing squarely in front of her , thin arms folded determinedly across a rather too revealing cleavage . |