Example sentences of "rather [adv] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Program start-up is rather annoyingly interrupted by a 15s delay at a screen showing Jandel Scientific 's reminder of the licence agreement , followed by a summary screen showing the program 's status in terms of memory use , maths coprocessor installation , estimated processing speed rating for the detected hardware , and various user-modifiable program settings . |
| 2 | Leaving aside the relics of the African slave-trade ( now illegal and rather effectively strangled by the British navy ) , the bulk of international migrants were Europeans , or more accurately in this period western Europeans and Germans . |
| 3 | It was apparent that the department felt rather less threatened by the prospect of the appraisal after the process had been described in more detail . |
| 4 | This shows at least 520 territorial groups recognized as administrative districts ( volosti ) , which in some cases corresponded to true consanguineous clans , but in many other cases were merely ‘ clans ’ of convenience , rather arbitrarily designated by the Russian authorities . |
| 5 | I have always thought of myself as being rather unfavourably viewed by the art establishment and that includes journalists in Britain . |