Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [be] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt entitled to a response that was rather more sympathetic , to say the least . |
| 2 | Thatcher 's friends , such as former United Biscuits boss Sir Hector Laing , used to implore her to give British industry the kind of support that was rather more consistent than those who bought and sold its shares in the City . |
| 3 | One holds that the writer does most of the work beforehand , laying a plan that is rather like an egg — and the story hatches , almost of its own accord . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One reason was for communications , but another reason that was rather intriguing to scientists was that they could actually look at stars and look at the space between the stars and use a different region of the spectrum , in particular the radio region . |
| 6 | In all these bizarre religious groups , one is in fact trying to recreate in an imaginative way a world that 's rather different from us . |
| 7 | It should be added that some influential and interesting recent developments of linguistic or stylistic criticism , notably Roger Fowler 's Literature as Social Discourse , propose a kind of functional analysis that is rather different from those we have been considering . |
| 8 | Yet it is a view that is rather more difficult to dismiss , if only because there is at its heart a real , and so far unresolved , problem . |
| 9 | It does at times reveal a certain despair over her present situation — a fact that is rather concerning . |