Example sentences of "[noun prp] be a rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the standard biography of her did , in my opinion , leave out too much of the rather conservative views she held and therefore gave the impression that Octavia Hill was a rather kindlier and gentler person than she really was . |
| 2 | But Pat was a rather stuffy , bourgeois individual , not exactly on the cutting edge of popular culture . |
| 3 | In some ways the Linn is a rather old fashioned sounding deck , even to the extent of sounding cold and uncommunicative , and at times it fails to rise completely to the challenge set by the music it is reproducing . |
| 4 | Nancy was a rather frail-looking , young , ‘ unqualified ’ assistant who had all the skills of defusing potentially-nasty situations . |
| 5 | Mrs Bradford was a rather severe Christian woman who admired a sense of responsibility in others and was always fair . |
| 6 | Wednesday 's a rather muddled time when people and events force you to rethink certain situations and change one or two recent decisions . |
| 7 | The " internal " limits on democracy in Britain are a rather different matter , however , and part and parcel of the Left description and critique of the established British constitution is the call for a new constitution for Britain that would somehow lift those limits . |
| 8 | The Cantona home in a northern suburb of Leeds is a rather modest semi-detached house with simple furniture and none of the usual soccer star extravagances . |
| 9 | ( 22 ) Margaret is a rather meteorological expert they bought some extremely clerical collars This effect is seen very clearly in the cases where the same word can be used in each of the different ways ; thus the adjective musical can perfectly well be modified for intensity when it is used ascriptively : ( 23 ) even as a child Naomi had a very musical voice but when it is associative , the result is again unacceptable : ( 24 ) we 've found a legal text and a very musical treatise 2.6 It is not necessary to be a linguist to feel that there is a difference in the two ways of using attributives . |