Example sentences of "on a rather [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palmers were city merchants , who bought respectability with the Wiston estates ; the Bowyers of North Mundham began as ‘ grocers ’ , though on a rather greater scale than a corner shop . |
| 2 | The second half was one-way traffic for long periods — Midlands on a rather misguided rampage , the Springboks showing their physical strength in the tackle . |
| 3 | Belinda said hello to one of them , Judy Stack , whom she knew from the nurses ' home , then sat on a rather uncomfortable chair in the corner as Faye was examined by a junior obstetrician . |
| 4 | The economy embarks on a rather sluggish crawl up the new LM curve until it eventually comes to rest at point C where there is a new , higher equilibrium level of income , Y 2 |
| 5 | The point , though , is on a rather low threshold . |
| 6 | On a rather higher level , one or two monthly magazines such as Vogue and Good Housekeeping can do a good merchandising job in department stores . |
| 7 | The interactive model is based on a rather amorphous communal pool of ideas and opinions . |
| 8 | But development in post-war Britain would be on a rather firmer footing . |
| 9 | Teachers were always busy , and many schools put GIST on a rather lower priority than dealing with the impact of unemployment , school reorganization , discipline or curricular problems . |
| 10 | Williamson 's romanticism and nature worship , on a rather lower level of theoretical conceptualisation , was to owe much to the books of Richard Jefferies , in particular the sunlight imagery of much of his work . |
| 11 | The er honourable gentleman 's question appears to be founded on a rather curious premise , er what has what has happened what has happened to electricity prices is that have fallen six percent in real terms over the last two financial years and if he wants to know another interesting statistics I can tell him . |
| 12 | But they served the basic purpose well enough to give the investigators a continuous record of the flight parameters , albeit on a rather small scale . |
| 13 | We have so far considered a number of examples of persistent facies on a rather grand scale ; but there are more detailed examples of it which in their way are even more amazing . |
| 14 | It was eventually agreed that each would pay half this cost and as the junction between the two systems was on a rather narrow section of road at the foot of a hump-backed railway bridge , the boundary was not a suitable place for a change point . |
| 15 | Before we move on , it is worth noticing that just as the debate about the Bible rested to a large extent on a rather dubious notion of what kind of authority was in question , so too the argument about miracles was one in which both sides generally shared an equally questionable concept . |
| 16 | An income tax inspector ( anonymous ) on a rather flippant float , looking grimly into the crowd and singling out strangers . |
| 17 | ON the eight o'clock radio news that Monday morning there was a substantial piece about an exciting police chase in Essex — understandably , on a rather lonely road . |
| 18 | When Boy George first skipped on stage caked in make-up singing ‘ Do You Really Want To Hurt Me ? ’ ten years ago , he stuck out like a fairy on a rather drab Christmas tree . |
| 19 | Twice , White lost European finals to him ; , on the last occasion , in 1988 , he lost on a rather harsh penalty , but knew that at last he had the measure of the Frenchman . |
| 20 | In the House of Lords , the argument went off on a rather different tack . |
| 21 | not fudged , but agreed in concrete terms on a rather different basis . |
| 22 | This decision might have been regarded as one asserting the value of individual choice , but the Court put it on a rather different basis , saying that ‘ the implementation of the rights conferred on the employees by the Directive could not be dependent on the consent either of the transferor or of the transferee or of the employees themselves , wit |
| 23 | At the moment the figures of housing provision in that draft advice are rat are done on a rather different basis for West Yorkshire as opposed to the other counties in the region . |
| 24 | It was on a rather cold morning at the end of October , just before breakfast , that we heard footsteps on the stairs outside our flat . |
| 25 | The most beautiful , large , deeply cut , fresh green leaves of Paeonia lutea ludlowii are borne on a rather stiff-stemmed shrub , about 5ft tall and wide , with cup-shaped , bright golden-yellow flowers in May-June . |
| 26 | Calculation of stress-strain relations seems more appropriate to estimate the load of distension on a rather thick walled human rectum . |
| 27 | Mozart 's Clarinet Concerto K622 receives a straightforward and competent — if somewhat literal and earthbound — performance from both the ( inexcusably unnamed ) soloist and the English Chamber Orchestra , and Sibelius 's Swan of Tuonela ( played by the Philharmonia on a rather congested and opaque recording ) similarly lacks sufficient grace and poetry . |
| 28 | Before embarking on a rather brief description of the theoretical interpretations of the glass transition a word of caution should be given . |
| 29 | The existence in Scots of many phonolexical sets of the same general type gives rise on a rather large scale to similar methodological problems in sociolinguistic work in Scotland . |
| 30 | As a result , the misappropriation theory still rests on a rather precarious foothold . |