Example sentences of "rather [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was rather sorry when the All Clear went . ’ |
| 2 | Applying this procedure to the data from this experiment would give a correlation of 0.16 , still rather lower than the figure from Watts and Quimby . |
| 3 | Underachievement , however , means something rather different when the focus of educational concern is black pupils . |
| 4 | The position is rather different when the goods came into the defendant 's hands by reason of a genuine , voluntary bailment for then the bailee has a statutory power of sale of the goods if the bailor fails to collect them . |
| 5 | We can ready quickly , we can learn things quickly , we can cope , we can act on the whole rather better and rather quicker than the Continentals . |
| 6 | Further to the right the cliff becomes rather nondescript until a shallow , right-facing corner offers access to a fine steep wall . |
| 7 | The arm can be in a very cramped position and the movement of the hand rather restricted if a flat surface such as a table is used ; a desk with an adjustable sloping top gives a much better angle whilst also providing storage for books . |
| 8 | His own choices are rather limited since the Pru owns 3.5% of the stockmarket . |
| 9 | We expect the underlying pricing structure to remain rather similar when the electricity industry is privatized , but closely regulated , in the early 1990s . ) |
| 10 | The only difference is that the slope of the worst case is rather steeper than the slope of the best . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 12 | This was built before 1650 and contains good stucco in the interior by Domenico Galli which seems rather wasted as the palace is now a Museum of Sports . |
| 13 | The amount that is actually being re-used is perhaps rather larger than the public realises : PWMI estimates that 7.6 per cent of the EC 's total plastic waste of 10.7m tonnes is recycled , while the calorific value of a further 12.8 per cent is recovered by using waste as fuel . |
| 14 | And the sort of payback , as it were , if you are lucky , is rather larger than the payback , say , in horse racing ? |
| 15 | This is really rather unfair because the only time we can really define correctly is in hindsight — when we have already found the solution and are merely inventing a definition that would have led us there ! |
| 16 | Heads of Departments seemed tired and depressed , rather frustrated because the idealistic schemes of Simla were clearly not going to get the necessary money . |
| 17 | It is very warm and rather bulkier than the old one , though the nice girl in John Lewis told me they get thin and tired after about nine years — and mine has done twelve , so it is going to go to for our use there . |
| 18 | There are two stars of between the fourth and fifth magnitudes , one rather brighter than the other , making up a wide naked-eye pair . |
| 19 | Er the County Council demonstrates that in five years the Hertfordshire erm etc , erm now I think Chairman we do have erm a pretty good strategy into the consultation rather better than the one for the erm current year which was started erm by the previous erm administration . |
| 20 | Now , we did n't have a recession in nineteen eighty six , but I would suggest that augers rather better than the mongers of gloom and doom would have us believe for nineteen ninety one . |
| 21 | Although that , the country is still well in the red , the latest deficit , as I mentioned earlier is rather better than the trade gap that was reported in July . |
| 22 | None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved ! |
| 23 | An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion , perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument . |
| 24 | IF John Whitaker can repeat last year 's form at The Horse of the Year Show , which begins today at Wembley Arena , he will be the taker of rather more than a whit . |
| 25 | The crucial distinction between the residual and the institutional model is that , in the latter , the state accepts responsibility for the provision of rather more than a basic minimum . |
| 26 | The results of these Monday afternoon treks ( is at Nursery and I am not at work only Monday and Friday afternoon and Friday afternoon is not a good time to go bothering people ! ) were now covering rather more than a double page and indeed was too much for a single newsletter article . |
| 27 | ‘ Rather more than a nuisance . |
| 28 | The house , called ‘ Quindry ’ is an ugly , flat-roofed box-shaped building , which resembled a factory unit rather more than a home . |
| 29 | Established , in close co-operation with the Communist Party , by the publisher Victor Gollancz in March 1936 , the Club rapidly became rather more than a purveyor of books — though , with 50,000 members by the beginning of 1938 , it did that effectively and in vast numbers . |
| 30 | Though formerly something of a manufacturer , God is clearly rather more than a management guru . |