Example sentences of "had been rather [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Ernest had been rather clever in naming his school and Elizabeth showed great psychological soundness in the choice of that Cambridge-blue trim on the blazers and ribbon on the panama hats . |
| 2 | Phillips 's original exercise had many features which were attractive to applied econometricians : the initial empirical work had been rather haphazard , leaving many important hypotheses untested ; the estimation techniques were simple ; it was a reduced form equation , a collapsed version of a larger structural model , leading to the possibility of biases ; in addition to the omission of many potentially significant explanatory variables , much refinement needed to be performed on the time series data . |
| 3 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 4 | All the additional effort to repair wind damage , and coping with the extra demands of old buildings in poor weather , did n't help to relieve the pressures , especially as some of the boys had been rather overexcited and badly behaved . |
| 5 | The music had sounded exactly like all other music he had ever heard , and the intervals between Louise Müller 's appearances had been rather tedious , but the display of her charms had provided more than adequate compensation for the occasional ennui Lefevre had enjoyed it even more , expressing his enthusiasm at the end by shouting , ‘ Bravo ! ’ standing , and clapping his hands above his head . |
| 6 | The next day we hired a Panda auto and nipped off for a game of golf , it had been rather warm and on returning Sonya suggested I remove my cerise tweeds and let my cornet Kascade down . |
| 7 | She had been rather grateful to him at the time . |
| 8 | And her reaction had been rather revealing , she was thinking . |
| 9 | The road to the Hunt Ball was a long one — Dada drove the car , bestowed on him by Aunt Tossie years ago , when he had been rather upset . |
| 10 | As an exercise in pornography , Zhukov had been rather pleased with the original pose . |
| 11 | However , his attentions had been rather nice , she admitted to herself while taking extra care with her make-up before going to the dining-room . |
| 12 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 13 | Away from the others , he thought his attempts to fit in had been rather embarrassing . |
| 14 | Losses during the period 12–15 May had been rather heavy , the total of aircraft destroyed or damaged in the air or on the ground being recorded as : |
| 15 | She did not appear to be unduly depressed and now said that she thought the act had been rather drastic , but did not regret it . |
| 16 | Nonetheless welfare provisions for school children had made progress during the 1930s although because of the frequent economic crises this progress had been rather erratic . |
| 17 | There had been invasions by descendants of the deposed Stuarts in 1715 and in 1745 and , though neither had been successful , both of them had been rather alarming . |
| 18 | Omi had been rather silent , in the flat at any rate , although … . |
| 19 | That had been rather exciting and they were prepared to recount it at considerable length until Narouz intervened and told them to shut up . |
| 20 | But Americans had been rather thin on the ground lately , fearing such Libyan terrorists as might haunt the dark streets round Notting Hill Gate . |
| 21 | Previous record books had been rather austere collections of lists , ’ he recalls . |
| 22 | One of these , intriguingly , was the non-existent Board of Magistrates for the Petty Sessions of Heaton Norris : the Charity Commissioners had been rather concerned , during the drafting of the Scheme , that letters addressed to this body were never answered , but pressed on with its inclusion regardless . |
| 23 | Her idea had been rather startling , even silly , but she had wanted to have a black crepe dress and bangles and a tent , and to tell fortunes . |
| 24 | All the same he had been rather cagey about Ianthe Broome , not saying who it was that had brought the oxtail . |
| 25 | Alix , driving home , thought that Hannah Glover probably had been rather hurt , despite her appearance of good humour . |
| 26 | ‘ She must 've gone away , ’ said Scarlet , gratified to hear of the dead plants and Barbs 's dereliction of duty , for she had been rather hurt not to be asked to mind Eliot . |
| 27 | Douglas had spent much of the time explaining to the table the intricacies of the plot of his next novel ; Leon Brittan had been rather short with him . |
| 28 | Since his return home , the prodigal 's life had been rather different . |
| 29 | The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements . |