Example sentences of "[verb] [been] rather [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
| 2 | Traditionally , he has been rather a mysterious figure with most of the audience seeing only his back . |
| 3 | However , the American evidence suggests that this growing familiarity with APRs has been rather an abstract affair . |
| 4 | Now , if that were right , that is , here 's our bodily bit here , that 's what individuates them , right , Socrates is shorter than Plato , Plato is a bit taller than Socrates , Socrates has funny bulgy eyes , erm Plato must have been rather a normal looking person , a variety of things that differentiate them , but they 're not different in respect of being human beings . |
| 5 | Charles , then , was the second brother to be left a widower , after Thomas ; the domestic burden thus falling upon him and his remaining daughters must have been rather a daunting one , including the need to feed , control and educate young Ben , then only nine years old . |
| 6 | It would have been rather a dangerous step to take you know , to con even consider er that . |
| 7 | THE gap between Absolute Beginners and Earth Girls Are Easy seems to have been rather a long one . |
| 8 | Until near the middle of the sixteenth century the enrolment of a student who had completed , or nearly completed , his studies as a candidate for office and the subsequent appointment of him to a post seems to have been rather a disorganized process . |
| 9 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 10 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |