Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a rather [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hathor is depicted either as a beautiful young woman or as a rather sad cow . |
| 2 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , this view can be criticized for over-stressing the importance of local social relations , and for a rather restricted view of how these relations are translated into policy . |
| 3 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 4 | He was not a happy child , appearing uneasy , cautious and of a rather secretive nature . |
| 5 | I holds just under a pint , and with a rather handy little lid . |
| 6 | The theory developed for this purpose by Wimsatt and Brooks ( and in a rather different way by Ransom and Tate ) takes as its starting-point Richards 's ( and Coleridge 's ) principle of the reconciliation of opposites , though the view it arrives at differs from Richards 's in a number of important respects . |
| 7 | For the afternoon service at St John 's , it was Franklin who arrived late and found the door of the church locked , but he forced an entry , and in a rather childish fracas , " put his legs between [ Eyles " s ] legs , lifted him up " , and attempted to throw him into the next seat . |
| 8 | An odd move , to be sure , at a time when prices were falling — and in a rather smart street , too , where such a venture would not be guaranteed to make him instantly popular with the neighbours , as customers came in one door and noisome smells came out of another . |
| 9 | He looked at me , and in a rather quiet voice , which was most unusual for him , be enquired , ‘ Do you know the March Past of the Irish Guards ? ’ |
| 10 | Actually the quarrel was largely due to Apollinaire 's careless use of terms and to a rather wilful misunderstanding on the part of Boccioni . |
| 11 | In this sense , and at a rather high level of abstraction , the very possibility within discourse of a historically located cultural field , marked by internally contradictory relations and hence by particularly difficult questions of causation and explanation , is part of the problematic of bourgeois society ; that is , it is internal to , and historically related to , a particular historical-social stage ( see Burke 1981 ) . |
| 12 | This belief was supported by an equally passionate belief in the triumph of spiritual over material forces , and by a rather ill-defined theology of divinely generated social progress . |
| 13 | So through that dismal day Hugh Templar sat at his kitchen table and pursued the adventures of a team of space-travellers who had discovered a world directly behind the sun , which was a mirror-image of our own Earth , with the same physical composition , but with a rather different kind of population , a race having strange and , I hoped , thought-provoking ideas about how to run their planet … |
| 14 | She was tall and imposing , but in a rather distant way ; her formidable look was emphasised by dark glasses . |
| 15 | This tone is certainly used in English , but in a rather restricted context : it almost always conveys ( on single-syllable utterances ) a feeling of saying something routine , uninteresting or boring . |
| 16 | But lorikeet displays , Serpell found , do not seem to be graded in intensity ; the large-billed birds use , instead , a greater variety of discreet gestures but in a rather haphazard order . |
| 17 | The expected toggle switch controls the pickup selections , but in a rather cunning fashion . |
| 18 | Japan has long featured in New Zealand rugby , but in a rather detached way . |
| 19 | In Uxbridge , West London , another British company is making its mark in local area networks , but in a rather different way . |
| 20 | So they have some of the same kind of problems that we have , but in a rather different form . |