Example sentences of "[vb -s] a rather [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole house has a rather appalling familiarity about it . |
| 2 | The event has a rather disappointing entry this year with a number of players choosing to play in the York Rosebowl at Strensall golf club , their scratch event . |
| 3 | Has a rather nasal song , an even more nasal , greenfinch-like ‘ dweeje ’ and a double whistle on a rising scale , ‘ hoo-hee ’ . |
| 4 | This has a rather surprising implication . |
| 5 | Secondly , the deciduous woodland that eventually takes over has a rather surprising composition . |
| 6 | Gedge has a rather cynical disdain for his early involvement with music but he nevertheless recognises its lasting influence . |
| 7 | But he has a rather curious story which the Commissioner at New Scotland Yard has asked us to look into . |
| 8 | ‘ Mrs Hilary Verlander has a rather nice ring to it , do n't you think ? ’ he added persuasively . |
| 9 | If one comes to the are northeast of Flaxton , I believe that for the avoidance of coalescence , one ought in the case of a village which has a rather wide boundary conservation area , for historical reasons basically , one ought to take the coalescence distance from the edge of that conservation boundary . |
| 10 | The tritone , though designated as ‘ neutral ’ , has a rather changeable quality , as it can seem mildly dissonant in a consonant context or consonant in a dissonant one . |
| 11 | In comparison with the other two passages , this one has a rather low frequency of nouns ( 4 ) ; moreover , over half of these nouns are abstract ( 20 ) , referring to entities which exist on a social or psychological plane : effort , subject , terms , money , feelings and aristocracy all occur in the first sentence . |
| 12 | ‘ My conversation with him this evening made me realise that he can be quite devious , and also that he has a rather cruel sense of humour . |
| 13 | Seemann in Leipzig still has a rather small list of new issues , but fills an important gap at last with the completely revised catalogue of the displayed works in the Gemäldegalerie Dresden alter Meister to celebrate the re-opening of the Zwinger in December after extensive restoration . |
| 14 | I think it has a rather shaky present here but it 's got a very solid present in other countries at the moment , where I think feminism is one of the most dynamic movements . |
| 15 | Halliday ( 1967 ) has a rather odd-looking set of tones : There is , of course , no particular reason to expect linguistic systems to be tidy and symmetrical , but I find it hard to see why Halliday chose these particular tones . |
| 16 | So , point six erm okay look at the sentences one and two under six , one is apparently ill-formed , herself left , except in I think some Irish dialects actually yes , well it has a rather special meaning where herself is given special status erm in the context , but in normal English , English herself left is ill-formed , but two , Florence saw herself is fine herself is a reflective pronoun refers that herself each other or one another , the other are reflective pronouns . |
| 17 | Bali , for instance , has a rather precise system of time reference . |
| 18 | The relation of this excess to the present study has a rather complicated history — with the excess near Sellafield , it originally suggested the population mixing hypothesis , but what was then in mind was the mixing connected with the nuclear industry ; an analogy with a new town was drawn . |
| 19 | She characteristically underplays her education , intellect , and talent as a ‘ weaker Woman ’ , but her religious rationalization of women 's intellectual and social position in relation to men has a rather bitter tone : ‘ Eve 's Theft serv 'd but to dignify Man 's Soul , /Her Sex denied the Knowledge which she stole . ’ |
| 20 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm simply telling you how it was just in case you 've forgotten — alcohol has a rather mind-numbing effect and after all you would n't want to forget even the tiniest part of so wonderful an evening , would you ? ’ |
| 22 | The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end . |
| 23 | She has a rather histrionic outlook on life sometimes . |
| 24 | It is at first sight difficult to account for the anomalous position of Birmingham , which has a rather high productivity score , but whose proportion of first papers in the core journal set is low . |
| 25 | It can be laced with herbs or garlic and has a rather sour flavour — butter or cream are sometimes worked into the cheese to give a more rounded taste . |
| 26 | Mauléon also has a rather wonderful Renaissance chateau in the centre of the town , with a roof to remember , a good thirty feet high and pitched at an angle of 75 degrees . |
| 27 | The jet is visible ( it has a rather different structure from jets considered elsewhere in this book because of the motion of the surrounding fluid ) . |
| 28 | And he 's been under somebody or other at Charing Cross Hospital I , who has a rather different approach to the whole thing , many other people 's involve rest and doing nothing and so on and so forth . |
| 29 | The fact that ‘ She ’ appears to those privileged to see her as a veiled figure and that her lustrous orbs , dazzling limbs and perfect ankles are revealed with tantalising slowness , has a rather different effect on today 's readers than it no doubt had when the book was first published , very nearly a century ago , in 1887 , to be greeted with a storm of ecstasy or alternatively of appalled disapproval , which lasted for many decades . |
| 30 | The second law of thermodynamics has a rather different status than that of other laws of science , such as Newton 's law of gravity , for example , because it does not hold always , just in the vast majority of cases . |