Example sentences of "rather [adv] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this largely due to being able to get many more measurements at many different places and stick them together rather rapidly using a computer ? |
| 2 | Er cos they threw things rather like throwing a pot . |
| 3 | Self-select P E Ps are a little bit different , is that when you , you the managers give you a choice of shares and it 's rather like pulling the handle on the one-armed bandit , you say right , I 'll start with er er I C I and I 'll back that up with B A T , and , and you leave them in for as long as you want , and you pay a charge when you move the shares , so you can actually control the P E P . |
| 4 | Eva never speaks of being afraid as the various political situations blew up even though at times it must have been rather like walking a tightrope after UDI . |
| 5 | It 'd be rather like having a lovely picture that you thought was a genuine old master and then being told it was a fake . |
| 6 | It is rather like doing a jigsaw puzzle where one might never get started if insisting first on finding the exact home for this one particular piece before trying with the rest . |
| 7 | By the time that Edward Heath had to appoint a chairman twenty years later , he chose Professor Michael ( later Lord ) Swann , Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University , on the grounds that running the BBC was rather like running a university , with a ferment of ideas , plenty of eccentricity and troublesome students . |
| 8 | But he does come rather near making the rather empty point that it must be wrong to identify good with anything different from itself . |
| 9 | The Head Receptionist has recently been showing signs of some disquiet , however : he has invested in a home computer and has been rather tentatively advocating the advantages of word processing and computerized accounting . |
| 10 | Decide why you did that rather then doing the homework . |