Example sentences of "to be rather more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 2 | Intuitively , one feels that older learners are at a disadvantage in relation to learning a language , but research shows the situation to be rather more complex . |
| 3 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 4 | It promises to be rather more straightforward ’ — he grinned — ‘ than my own enquiries . ’ |
| 5 | But come , it 's time for you to be rather more specific . |
| 6 | To be effective , children 's mathematical experience needs to be rather more wide ranging and demanding than presently seems to be the case . |
| 7 | The most significant enhancement is the inclusion of Wysiwyg add-in which does allow reports from the spreadsheet to be rather more stylish . |
| 8 | In fact , the statistical significance test controversy was the precursor of concerns that turned out to be rather more fundamental to variable analysis ; concerns that were not voiced by such as Becker and other Symbolic Interactionists who wanted no truck with a sociology derived from variable analysis ( and whose criticisms we shall review later in this chapter ) , but by advocates of variable analytic and survey approaches . |
| 9 | But whatever circumlocutions are conferred upon him , Simon would appear to be rather more obtrusive than some translators might wish . |
| 10 | Having twin and matched secondary windings clearly makes a mains transformer very versatile , but it also means that you have to be rather more careful when wiring it up . |