Example sentences of "that [is] rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an ideal world I suppose one should have two — a sweet and a savoury — like my slo-cookers , but that is rather extravagant . |
| 2 | All that is rather peculiar but it can be digested and lived with . |
| 3 | That is rather a ponderous way of saying that no one in his right mind doubts the truth of my assertion about the states in which Bill will be found , because there are two of them and he must be in one or the other . |
| 4 | ‘ That is rather different . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That is rather different , ’ said Fael-Inis . |
| 6 | That is rather more responsibility than I am prepared to take . ’ |
| 7 | " That is rather better , " he told her . |
| 8 | That is rather a difficult question to answer . |
| 9 | That is rather a silly question on such an important occasion . |
| 10 | That is rather obvious , I should have thought . |
| 11 | Well , that is rather an exaggerate . |
| 12 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's rather what I 'm hoping to find out . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That 's rather difficult for me to explain . ’ |
| 15 | That 's rather like having a King Lear spiritually emoting with an insight which may transcend any previous realisation , whilst unfortunately playing havoc with the syntax , changing and/or forgetting words , and mumbling so that certain words inaudible to the unaware onlooker can be understood only by the expert who knows the text ! |
| 16 | ‘ That 's rather an insolent question . |
| 17 | I think that 's rather boring . |
| 18 | I think that 's rather cute , coming from someone who led , before , during and after a race weekend , the kind of life that would exhaust most even if they did not , additionally , have to engage in one of the most physically demanding sports in the world . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's rather difficult to remember exactly . |
| 20 | That 's rather awful is n't it ? |
| 21 | That 's rather a tall order , is n't it ? |
| 22 | That 's rather nice , ah nice |
| 23 | Flavia said , ‘ That 's rather delightful . |
| 24 | So that 's rather depressing actually , that a lot of students will go into RADAR and various other sorts of defence things which do n't seem to me to be increasing the sum of human happiness . |
| 25 | I think that 's rather , that 's , that 's a cheap deal I think is n't it two thousand pounds ? |
| 26 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 27 | I would think that 's rather unlikely . |
| 28 | You think that 's rather unlikely ? |
| 29 | That 's rather a bore . |
| 30 | Peop people say that , in fact all your scores are quite high while P is the , actually that 's rather , rather |