Example sentences of "rather a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is rather a pity , for the reasons we explained in Chapter 5 . |
| 2 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 3 | Owen thought that rather a pity as she had seemed very competent , quite capable of sorting out both Yussuf and his wife . |
| 4 | it would have been taken , it was rather a pity . |
| 5 | I 'm a woman , or rather a girl , and not clever . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just got rather a cold , ’ she said . |
| 7 | This , the first word Mungo had ever heard him utter , other than the mysterious ‘ lymenner ’ , came as rather a shock , as though a pillar-box had suddenly spoken . |
| 8 | I 'm just going to walk down the hill with this lady — her husband 's there — she 's had rather a shock — ’ |
| 9 | There is , however , no clear-cut distinction , rather a continuum exists between the specific procedures and general information gathering . |
| 10 | Apart from her admittedly efficient knowledge of the intricacies of computers I 'd thought Doreen rather a nonentity . |
| 11 | It was rather a squash at my nana 's house because mum , and I had to share a bedroom . |
| 12 | Not of an inquiring cast of mind , however , but rather a pragmatist , who seized his opportunities with a sure touch , he did not wonder long . |
| 13 | He 's really rather a honey . |
| 14 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 15 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 16 | Unusually the MMC ( or rather a majority of its serving members ) proposed a structural remedy . |
| 17 | That it had made contact was evident , for Sister Mary let out a cry , a weird sound that was rather a yell not a scream . |
| 18 | Man , concludes Freud , is ‘ rather a horde animal , an individual creature in a horde led by a chief ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's been rather a development , ’ said Emma . |
| 20 | Rather a home appeared to be selected upon the basis of availability rather than any other obvious criteria . |
| 21 | ‘ The shops were rather a home from home , not the most efficient of places , ’ says Major Bourne-Arton . |
| 22 | But this particular county is extremely well covered by special forms of countryside protection both through national park , heritage coast , A O N B and as was mentioned in a rather a throwaway fashion but in terms of grade one , two and three A O N agricultural land . |
| 23 | The late Bob Hedges , of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith , a pioneer of plasmid research , suggested almost 20 years ago that bacterial evolution has not been linear , as in higher organisms , but rather a patchwork , with organisms drawing from a communal gene pool . |
| 24 | ‘ It is rather a find , ’ she agreed . |
| 25 | This has no practical purpose whatsoever but has become rather a measure of ability — if you can duck gybe it is an indication that you must be quite good . |
| 26 | However , if part of that heartwood were found on an archaeological site , the radiocarbon result would not provide the date of usage of the wood , but rather a date three hundred radiocarbon years earlier , and more if it has been seasoned before use or re-used . |
| 27 | Curiosity satisfied , it is rather a relief to emerge from darkness to daylight . |
| 28 | It 's rather a relief . |
| 29 | It was all rather a relief . |
| 30 | It was rather a relief . |