Example sentences of "this be a rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | But lying behind this is a rather higher claim which deserves not altogether sceptical consideration . |
| 2 | This is a rather variable type of vegetation and is characterised by constant Molinia caerulea , Scirpus cespitosus , Erica tetralix , Potentilla erecta and Calluna vulgaris , but any one or even two of these species might be missing . |
| 3 | This is a rather negative approach , since it tells us nothing about any positive rights that citizens may have . |
| 4 | Even at best this is a rather crude approximation . |
| 5 | This is a rather odd question to start with , because films specifically do not have ‘ natural ’ sound . |
| 6 | This is a rather unsatisfactory situation , but fortunately the treatment for Candida infestation ( described below ) is fairly innocuous , so it does not matter too much if it is sometimes given unnecessarily . |
| 7 | ‘ May I observe that this is a rather strange sort of idleness … ’ and he went on to admit that , although it was difficult for him to defend his present way of life , there was purpose in it , even if that purpose was an obscure one . |
| 8 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 9 | Given that the chances of establishing oneself in sport are extremely small regardless of colour , this is a rather dangerous channelling of objectives . |
| 10 | This is a rather curious argument about sign language . |
| 11 | This is a rather apt description of a bloom that is flat , ( compared to the high central point of the Hybrid Tea , for example ) and in which the many petals seem to curl and divide into four sections or quarters . |
| 12 | This is a rather more nebulous concept , but IBM seems to believe that there are loads of small businesses that are currently running their operations on local network-based systems and are beginning to get to the size where they are beginning to need transaction processing facilities on their server . |
| 13 | On closer inspection , however , it is not difficult to see that this is a rather mild counter-movement , one of those smaller eddies that spring up again and again from the many-layered structure of historical change within every stage of more comprehensive processes . |
| 14 | What I 'll erm , what I 'll do next week on this is a rather problematic topic this one erm it 's in the general section . |
| 15 | However , this is a rather questionable assumption . |
| 16 | In fact , however , this is a rather limited view . |
| 17 | This is a rather depressing picture , especially of the secondary school situation , but is by no means unique . |
| 18 | This is a rather strict version of the managerial labour market theory ( Fama , 1980 ) which will be discussed in chapter 3 . |
| 19 | This is a rather different ‘ north-south divide ’ . |
| 20 | This is a rather rough and ready technique . |
| 21 | This is a rather simplistic argument . |
| 22 | Perhaps the best one can do is to say that communication from the letter detector to the word detector level , which is normally both fast and parallel , has become slow and serial , but this is a rather ad hoc explanation , and certainly much less satisfying than the interpretations offered by the model for surface dyslexia and phonological dyslexia . |
| 23 | This is a rather naïve comparison with speech or writing , which do not necessarily move forward only by means of question and answer . |
| 24 | This is a rather complex technique of composition . |
| 25 | This is a rather unfortunate name , which apparently arises from early low resolution pictures which suggested that they were flat areas devoid of craters . |
| 26 | However , given the actual staff time involved in production of the Standards I think this is a rather low percentage and gives us a somewhat unrealistic final cost per unit . |
| 27 | This is a rather naive view of a regime which openly threatens those who hold different views with death . |
| 28 | This is a rather imprecise definition , but land used for railway sidings or a gas works is operational land whereas land used for showrooms or offices is not . ) |
| 29 | This is a rather complex issue , but clearly there are elements of language , notably deictics , which are not accessible to a purely truth-conditional semantics . |
| 30 | I would of thought so Mr yes , yes , erm , alright well Mr Mr erm this is a rather odd exercise in a way and as you know my first thoughts were they were better to leave it to see what , how the , how the judgment came out of it , but erm , erm , I do regard the matter as er , as a , as a whole as of very considerable importance both to both sides of this case and erm , it did seem to me on considering it , er , from recovering from the dentist that er , an , an outline of erm |