Example sentences of "rather [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 2 | Sweden has recorded an 8.4 per cent fall in industrial production in 1991 , a figure which compares rather badly with the United Kingdom 's latest year-on-year figure of 1.1 per cent . |
| 3 | One night we had a crash landing , when a plane from another air field had to land at Bourn in a bit of a hurry , having been shot up rather badly on the way back from Germany . |
| 4 | Another , named rather despairingly by the scientist who first examined it Hallucigenia , had seven pairs of limbs beneath and seven tentacles waving above , each of which ended , apparently , with a mouth . |
| 5 | For example , as I indicated in discussing personal care , it is regarded as legitimate for children to think about their own interests when deciding whether to support a parent , but this is balanced rather delicately with the morality of obligation and duty , so that children can quite easily get into the position where they are regarded as too self-interested . |
| 6 | He took the load from her and walked rather slowly to the car . |
| 7 | A steward with grey hair and neat moustache waved me rather wearily into the cockpit where the pilot and co-pilot were carrying on a violently gestured argument which was to last all the way to Puerto Maldonaldo . |
| 8 | Pretty well the entire post-biblical civilian infrastructure of the unhappy country has been smashed , and we hear rather less about the miracles of computer-game warfare and surgically exact bombs winning wars without killing people . |
| 9 | Additional imports generated may have been around 15 per cent for the United Kingdom , rather less for the EEC but a good deal more for the United States . |
| 10 | The emphasis here is rather less upon the calculation of personal advantage , and rather more on the kin group as a co-operative unit , taking collective decisions which are to the advantage of all . |
| 11 | As a political tool naval patronage was rather less in the control of Administration than was military patronage , for although the Board of Admiralty retained all home patronage , there were many flag officers commanding squadrons in distant waters who enjoyed the right to make necessary promotions in their ships . |
| 12 | The external appearance might be considered typically Japanese — matt black folded steel case , drum feet , extruded black anodized aluminium front panel — yet one pauses : perhaps it has rather less in the way of lights , button and switches than usual . |
| 13 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 14 | The possibilities of choice are rather less in the most obviously vocationally oriented degrees , such as Architecture , Housing Studies and Nursing Studies , but some freedom of action is still possible . |
| 15 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 16 | As to the others , it really depends rather crucially on the game that one has in mind . |
| 17 | Downes fitted a hearing-aid taken from his pocket into his right ear , the aid promptly emitting a series of shrill whistles as he fiddled rather fecklessly with the controls . |
| 18 | Yet another Pakistani , the former world champion Jansher Khan , was rather prematurely in the news for being rebuked by Chris Dittmar , the president of the players ' association , for allegedly being too demanding of the tournament organisers . |
| 19 | And now Mrs Stych stood rather dazedly inside the front door and wondered if she was in the right house . |
| 20 | But they were kept going in it , rather perhaps at the discretion of those running the schemes rather than to throw them out , and as a result we did not have a scrap of vandalism in the area during the whole of the summer holidays . |
| 21 | Crossman consulted Thomas Balogh ( the Oxford economist and close friend of Wilson then residing rather unhappily in the Cabinet Office ) . |
| 22 | Indeed , in another passage in the Ali differentiates the haric elli ( and 40-akce ) and dahil grades of medreses on the basis not of geographical location but of their builders — the 40-akce and medreses being the foundations of the families of pre-Ottoman rulers and [ Ottoman ] vezirs and emirs , the medreses the foundations of the families of Ottoman sultans — method of classification which accords rather better with the actualities of his time ( late sixteenth century ) but which provides no apparent explanation for the terms themselves . |
| 23 | ‘ This is what you call the laconicum ? ’ she asked , drawing back rather dubiously from the dank breath that distilled out of the earth . |
| 24 | At the Prado the display is less evocative , with the paintings hung rather baldly in the central hall , and an ill conceived diagonal wall down the centre which creates bottle necks for visitors . |
| 25 | Where death is concerned , rationality does n't necessarily fly out of the window but does appear to hover rather uncertainly over the sill . |
| 26 | All this was poised to change rather rapidly by the late 1980s as these groups , plus the third largest American hotel chain Ramada , made a determined effort to increase their stake in London in particular , on the backs of the upsurge in American tourists coming to the United Kingdom largely because of exchange rate changes . |
| 27 | It is set in Germany during the middle ages , and although not abandoning a ‘ fantasy ’ setting , its stance is rather more along the ‘ if what they believed about magic and legends were actually true ’ . |
| 28 | So civil servants tend to come out rather more into the open , to meet people on behalf of their ministers , receive deputations and so forth . |
| 29 | Harries , already unsuccessful with two very kickable penalties , and replaced by Jones , who had landed an angled one from 28 yards , might have done rather more with the opportunity , but Newport scored straight afterwards . |
| 30 | That has something to do with the stress of constant innovation , and rather more with the fact that they and their work have been systematically devalued by a government determined to bring schools under political control . |