Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] rather a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rather a kind of oligarchy , with a strong hereditary element in its composition . |
| 2 | It was rather a struggle between housing classes for access to the central scarce resource , namely suburban housing . |
| 3 | it would have been taken , it was rather a pity . |
| 4 | Honey was sweet and gentle from the day she was born , so it was rather a surprise when she came home from the horse breaker with a completely changed personality . |
| 5 | It was rather a façade behind which classes and individuals with a vested interest in weak and decentralized government could entrench themselves , and also a mere mechanical adherence to established practices and institutions . |
| 6 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 7 | It was rather a relief . |
| 8 | It was rather a squash at my nana 's house because mum , and I had to share a bedroom . |
| 9 | So it was rather a question of running the gauntlet when passing over the Sayers ' land . |
| 10 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 11 | It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret . |
| 12 | Far from seeing the ascent of Labour in the immediate postwar period as a spontaneous response to frustrated hopes and deteriorating social conditions , it was rather a resolution or convergence of deeper currents at a specific historical conjuncture . |
| 13 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 14 | Horses were his speciality , and although he was rather a stout and shortish man-he sported a moustache - he was quite strong . |
| 15 | I can appreciate Edouard would rather have me wasting my time at the museum instead of going round to his flat and trying to persuade Barbara Coleman to leave , but sending someone to kill me was rather an over-reaction . ’ |