Example sentences of "and [be] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we can not be categorical in relation to the cases in this study , other research has indicated that psychiatrists rarely trouble themselves with the social circumstances of individuals referred , and are rather preoccupied with evidence of mental disorder ( Bean , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long … |
| 3 | Our human digestive system has a struggle with such things as alcohol , but we are resilient and are rather good at detoxifying the many dubious substances that we inflict on our long-suffering internal organs . |
| 4 | Floatplanes have some handling similarities to tailwheel aircraft and are rather different from tricycle landplanes . |
| 5 | Conservative party groups are better organized , better supported and are rather more effective than their Labour counterparts . |
| 6 | The fruits associated with such dispersers are conspicuous , produced in abundance , and are rather watery , sugary and with little nutritive value , for they have little fat or protein . |
| 7 | At the post-impressionist exhibition you could scarcely move at all for people , but at the new spirit in painting exhibition , which is currently on at the R A , there 's a lot of space and people on the whole go round very quickly and are rather sceptical about it all . |
| 8 | ‘ Well it 's a it 's a it 's a place and it 's a g-girl and a boy … and the-they 've got obviously something which is is made some made made made well it 's just beginning to go and be rather unpleasant ( ha ! ha ! ) um and this is in the this is the the woman and she 's put putting some stuff and the it 's it 's that 's being really too big t-to do and nobody seems to have got anything there at all at all and er it 's … |
| 9 | Be quite good , although you maybe do it by accident sometime and be rather jerky ! |
| 10 | But you muste prove yourself to do som thynges that you were never taught , or else you shall not be able to doo any more than you were taught , and were rather to learne by rote than by reason . |
| 11 | Although only one in five of the mothers in this book had positively wanted to have a baby , and a few did n't mind , the rest had no particular wish to get pregnant and were rather shocked to discover that they were . |
| 12 | It was plainly much easier to join the legions of the wicked who were n't fussy and were rather more eager for recruits than the exclusive godfearing . |
| 13 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 14 | But she looked at the robe again and several of the eyes opened and blinked and swivelled in their sockets , as if they had heard her thoughts and were rather amused by them . |
| 15 | They wanted to push in the incentive scheme throughout the shop and they were busily engaged in doing that , and were rather blinded you know , to the claims that were coming through . |
| 16 | While the IVIS discs had only loosely defined objectives and were rather vaguely intended as an underlying educational resource , IVIFE discs had very clear objectives . |
| 17 | This is very important and I should imagine there 's been more trouble , probably , with people representing the authority and being rather officious , and this has got no one anywhere . |
| 18 | The burden of the survey findings seems clear and is rather disheartening for the Thatcher project . |
| 19 | So sociology then , is the study of socie the study of people , and is rather different from studying materials which are , perhaps , not so variable . |
| 20 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 21 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 22 | She had wavy blond hair and was rather attractive apart from the beginnings of a moustache . |
| 23 | It all had to be done in the dark and was rather frightening . |
| 24 | It always sounded as if one should have known , had been told before and was rather foolish to have forgotten . |
| 25 | He needed hobdaying and was rather on the temperamental side , so she sent him to Bill and me to see if he had any ability in the dressage sphere . ’ |
| 26 | ( By moving up from the level of salesman in his insurance company , he 'd sacrificed a firm 's car and was rather careful about using his own . ) |
| 27 | That this experience was not confined to the realm of theory , and was rather widespread in bourgeois strata , is immediately clear to the reader of Proust , Mann , or Musil . |
| 28 | She had meant to try , although she had learned where Georgie might be found and was rather more interested in seeing what one of Crystal 's lovers looked like . |
| 29 | She was good with her hands and was rather pleased to be more competent than her mother in this . |
| 30 | Belinda had been slightly unnerved to find that this man was Faye Hamilton 's obstetrician , and was rather alarmed at the prospect of spending a block of time in his elegant office , becoming familiar with the case history of her new patient . |