Example sentences of "which rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first shot was ‘ Incomes policy and exchange rates ’ which rather reveals perhaps the track upon which I find my own mind has been running in recent months if not years . |
| 2 | Decide to ring doorbell of house opposite into which rather smart-looking couple , Marc and Elaine , have recently moved . |
| 3 | But then it was a politician who coined the phrase , ‘ lies , damned lies and statistics ’ , which rather blew the gaff in the first place . |
| 4 | ( v ) Pomponius has one case which rather resembles those of Scaevola : a disposition is quoted which has the wording of a trust , but it is described as a legacy . |
| 5 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |
| 6 | Then came a new cry , which rather overshadowed my friends ' efforts : ‘ West Mids — Best Kids ! ’ chanted over and over by sixty or more voices . |
| 7 | She was also a grand needle woman , a talent which rather curiously led to a change in her religious affiliations . |
| 8 | Which rather begs the question why he became an actor . |
| 9 | Although men secrete the pheromone androsterone from their underarm glands , 50 to 60 per cent of males can not even smell such musky odours — which rather damages the claims that women 's musk-based perfumes drive men wild . |
| 10 | The chief stars are Alpha or Acrux ( 0.8 ) , Beta ( 1.2 ) , Gamma ( 1.6 ) , Delta ( 2.8 ) and Epsilon ( 3.6 ) , which rather spoils the symmetry of the pattern . |
| 11 | It requires either a full repeat survey to identify the life style-groups again if any follow-up research is to be done , or else the creation of a sort of shorthand classification for research and analysis ; it seems that different products tend to be best looked at in terms of rather different life style groupings , so that , ideally , each requires its own major survey — which rather loses the point of the exercise — and researchers have had some difficulty in replicating the results . |
| 12 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 13 | At first glance it would seem that sport must involve a victim , which rather explains why boxing is considered sporting . |
| 14 | Indeed , it is the fact of recession which rather suggests that the greatest threat to the persistence of corporatist arrangements may come , not from the Left and labour , but from the Right and from the industrial capitalists themselves — those interests , that is , that the Left have seen as having benefited most from corporatism . |
| 15 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 16 | Which rather rules out Walter as a father for Desmond , since he was born in ‘ thirty-seven . |
| 17 | but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health |
| 18 | And for some time after that they went to bed at the same time and Ellen gave up both Jed and the Director of Social Services ; and when both threatened , in grief , spite and unreason , to report her infidelity to Bernard , said , ‘ Tell away ! ’ and neither of them did , which rather disappointed her . |
| 19 | In particular , the ‘ state of the art ’ in the collection and processing of raw data by the Soviet Central Statistical Administration is something about which rather little is known . |
| 20 | On stage , White Lies was the curtain-raiser and Crawford played a sad fellow called Tom , which rather depressed him . |
| 21 | Which rather proves a point that in fact it was a low period , and therefore if you take a low period historically , which is er includes a a boom in inverted commas , within that , then overall you 're going to end up with a very low figure er in total . |
| 22 | On his last sortie to an Italian target , of all places , he sustained tremendous flak damage which rather belied the sort of opinion that we had of Italian flak . |
| 23 | Erm the the point I really wanted to make erm is response to a comment from Mr Donson and and also Profe Professor Lock erm it it goes back to erm to my constraints map of the county , the one I submitted er as an appendix to my erm submissionary inspector of the H one issue , erm which rather unfortunately throughout the course of the examination has been er exploited by a number of other parties constr for their own purpose . |
| 24 | Well we were disappointed in the Good Report because er they did say it was one of the major issues , and yet they said that they did n't think any sweep in changes are needed which rather erm contradicted the earlier part of our report , we would have thought there were erm changes needed . |
| 25 | Southwell Southwell faces Mansfield which rather gets us in the stick you see because we have to come here for Benefit Office interviews and things like that but you got to Mansfield |
| 26 | All of which rather spoils the dramatic point of the rest of the film . |
| 27 | All of which rather spoils the dramatic point of the rest of the film . |