Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] a rather [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home side made a rather disappointing 223 their skipper , the Hon F.S. Gough-Calthorpe ( shades of Blandings Castle ) contributing 70 , and the amateur , F.R. Santall , 84 , both in quick time . |
| 2 | The major critical work revealed a rather different side to Gerald 's personality . |
| 3 | After passing the Fair Green with its small clock tower , the tramway negotiated a rather narrow section of street , with shops , before crossing Figges Marsh , an open space of lesser proportions than Mitcham Common . |
| 4 | With respect to the coming to an end of a temporary job as a source of flows into unemployment , available evidence provided a rather unclear picture . |
| 5 | The pediment showed a rather stilted composition : a frontal chariot , probably an epiphany of the god , flanked by kouroi and korai , groups of lions pulling down stags in the corners . |
| 6 | The man on the video took a rather different view , describing Honda 's decision to join the flow of Japanese car makers into Britain as an opportunity to conquer a Europe soon to be ‘ unchained and unfettered by regulations ’ . |
| 7 | For all princes , the communal movement raised a rather different problem : each privileged community , whether fully self-governing or merely franchised , constituted in enclave subject to different rules from its neighbours ; it was not therefore easily absorbed into the administrative framework of castellanies which the princes of the north were seeking to clarify and define . |
| 8 | Policy planning was rethought , and local land-use planning had a rather different context ( Hambleton , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Sales varied but were well down by the end of the 1980s , and the paper remained a rather marginal venture . |
| 10 | Such antiquarian interest in the past laid a rather deadening hand upon contemporary sculptors . |
| 11 | This in turn prompted a rather romantic and ideal vision of the Orcadian with his ‘ immemorial rights ’ to build his house anywhere , seeking to perpetuate the Orcadian ‘ tradition ’ of self-improvement with the acquisition of a ‘ modern ’ style of life within his own part of Orkney , through a process of personal enterprise . |
| 12 | Genesis took a rather unique way round the problem of replacing lost manpower by resolving to confine the writing and recording duties to the surviving three band members and taking on ‘ extra hands ’ for live performance . |
| 13 | Belinda 's father had of necessity bought a rather characterless cream brick house in the outer suburb where his hardware shop was located , and Belinda had always wanted to live in one of these gracious old places , which were larger , more urban versions of the old farmhouse near Emerald where she had spent her childhood . |
| 14 | Various local councillors and moral guardians were waiting for them at the venue , having read local press reports that the Fabs ' travelling show included a rather racy striptease revue . |
| 15 | The matter had a rather startling consequence : Crossman 's senior civil servant , the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing , was a lady , Dame Evelyn Sharp . |
| 16 | Our special analysis of the Unemployed Flow Survey revealed a rather different state of affairs . |
| 17 | The contrast with the squalor of the old Cinque Port provided a rather romantic paradox . |
| 18 | Months and months of advance publicity , and newspaper articles about the seriousness and dedication of everyone involved — then the curtains parted , and out on to the stage walked a rather tubby little figure with a balding forehead and thin hair flying in the wind , who leaned anxiously forward and waved his arms about as he talked . |