Example sentences of "rather [adj] [conj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Example 107 gives a melody from a solo piece in the free twelve-note manner , rather florid and virtuoso in style : Note the rhythmic irregularity and lack of classical rhythmic shapes . |
| 2 | Of course , the exhibition does rather more than nod to the past . |
| 3 | The fact that the men on the Area Boards were appointed directly by the Minister ( and not by the Central Authority — though the Organising Committee and later the Central Authority were consulted ) meant that the Boards were something rather more than subsidiaries of the larger entity . |
| 4 | Similarly , the increasing employment of women in the growing sector of food , drink and tobacco manufacture by the end of the century , and even the dramatic growth in the number of women commercial clerks ( 4,467 in Edinburgh by 1911 , compared to only 366 in 1881 ) did little to alter the fact that in Scotland generally ( perhaps rather more than England in the same period ) there was a very clear division of the labour market and a de facto segregation of " men 's work " from " women 's work " , which would face any girl looking for her first job . |
| 5 | Theda was therefore acutely conscious of one gentleman , rather stout and red of face . |
| 6 | Compared to the large , powerful bodies of the Orcs , Goblins look rather thin and skrawny with gangly arms . |
| 7 | Rather nice or run of the mill or ? |
| 8 | It would , of course , be rather unnatural if weaknesses within the school were n't quietly noted and stored away for future reference . |
| 9 | Hume was to say that it was not against reason to prefer the destruction of the world to the least uneasiness in one 's little finger ; it would simply be rather bizarre and repellent to normal feeling . |