Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] be rather [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This we think we can discount for a number of reasons : first , the magnitude of the risk aversion would need to be rather large for the result ( that an increase in a is good ) to be reversed ( particularly when the reservation value is generally above the mean price ) ; second , subjects were paid proportionately to their total profits over 16 decision periods ( 32 decisions ) so that any risk aversion would already have been significantly averaged out ; third , the subjects appeared to be trying to make as much money out of the experiment as possible ( implying that they were behaving in a risk-neutral fashion ) ; fourth , the majority of the responses to two questions on the questionnaire indicated risk-neutrality . |
| 2 | Although these encroachments may appear to be rather small , they could give your neighbour valid grounds for complaint , which could result in costly legal proceedings . |
| 3 | This guidance may appear to be rather imprecise but one particular application of it has resulted in the following list of parameters in two different groups . |
| 4 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 5 | ‘ Scots do tend to be rather inhibited about interior design , ’ she acknowledges . |
| 6 | Studies of working memory in animals may seem to be rather remote from the standard , acquired distinctiveness procedure . |
| 7 | Some industries do seem to be rather small relative to the size of the EC market , thus there are ten manufacturers of electricity-generating equipment in the EC and only two in the USA ( Curzon-Price 1988 ) . |
| 8 | These routines may all seem to be rather complicated and fiddly , but they are simpler to follow than their descriptions might suggest . |
| 9 | I have described him as a literary concept and this , as applied to a man in a dirty trench-coat moving in and out of sleazy beds and corrupt gambling dens , may seem to be rather excessive . |