Example sentences of "[conj] rather a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mary Queen of Scots went to Edinburgh she bewailed going out among savages , and she herself went from a sixteenthcentury court that held but a barbarous , or rather a drivelling and idiotic and superficial travesty of the Italian culture as it had been before the debacle of 1527 . |
| 2 | A typical present might be a bomb , or rather a hand-grenade alarm clock . |
| 3 | In some cases , where the family is prepared to take special care of their loved ones , I would happily agree to a patient , or rather a writer , going home . |
| 4 | I 'm a woman , or rather a girl , and not clever . |
| 5 | The weekend had been a failure — or rather a success . |
| 6 | ‘ They are like the two sides of a coin , or rather a smooth unstamped metallic disc . |
| 7 | A further step , or rather a great deal of research , would be greatly more significant in terms of the question we are considering . |
| 8 | This table was covered with what looked like a toy village , or rather a toy landscape for there were rivers and hillsides and boundaries and hundreds and hundreds of minute patches of green in every geometrical shape and minute model manor houses and chateaux and farms . |
| 9 | The word comes from the Latin homo ( stem , homin — ) , a man , or rather a human being of either sex , + cidium , killing . |
| 10 | Unusually the MMC ( or rather a majority of its serving members ) proposed a structural remedy . |
| 11 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 12 | I had no plan , or rather a hundred plans , which is worse than having none at all . |
| 13 | Johnson , however , devotes one mere paragraph to a description — or rather a non-description — of their visit . |
| 14 | We seem to be seeing , in the fossils , an arms race , or rather a series of restarting arms races , between carnivores and herbivores . |
| 15 | We know , for instance , that a Social Class V woman ( or rather a woman married to a Social Class V man ) has less of a chance of having a healthy child who will reach adulthood than a woman who is married to a man in Social Class I. |
| 16 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 17 | This is clearly a literary phenomenon , or rather an example of literacy at work in place of the semi-literacy that might naively be associated with the film industry ; people who had read one book by the author then sought out his earlier book , putting it too on the best-seller list . |
| 18 | I am reminded of another Irishman — or rather an Englishman born in Ireland — renowned for his healing hands : Valentine Great-rakes , known as ‘ the stroker ’ . |
| 19 | Richie Richardson , in his first Test as captain , and Keith Arthurton , the flamboyant Nevisian left-hander , set about restoring momentum in a partnership of 82 in 19 overs before the rot , or rather an indisciplined passage of batting , set in . |
| 20 | At least he sees that it 's funny , and in Britain , where Bruce Springsteen is just another pop star , albeit rather a famous and successful one , we will probably laugh along . |
| 21 | During the last years of the war it was noticed that rather a high proportion of soldiers were failing to be cured by the standard doses of M & B 693 , as the sulphonamide was called , and this was the first clue to the potential in the gonococcus for developing resistance to antibiotics . |
| 22 | Owen thought that rather a pity as she had seemed very competent , quite capable of sorting out both Yussuf and his wife . |
| 23 | I mean that rather a nice Chinese restaurant in the high street does take away . |
| 24 | I thought that rather an inelegant phrase and I shall return to it . |
| 25 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 26 | At first when you enter , the church seems forbidding and rather a muddle . |
| 27 | ‘ And rather a beauty , incidentally . ’ |
| 28 | The following Friday evening , after spinach soufflé , baked potatoes with sour cream , and rather a lot of excellent claret , Clare found herself sitting naked to the waist in the firelight . |
| 29 | And rather a silly war to fight . |
| 30 | It was genuine amusement , and rather a pleasant sound if you were in the mood for humour . |