Example sentences of "is rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | The description is rather slender , but Pater was able to assume some existing knowledge on the part of his reader : ‘ We all know the face and hands of the figure , set in its marble chair , in that circle of fantastic rocks , as in some faint light under sea . ’ |
| 2 | Exclusion , though , is rather less general a problem than a low status for some categories of painting . |
| 3 | Flanner is rather sparing about details of Picasso 's personal life , knowing it to be so extensively documented . |
| 4 | She is rather like a lyric author herself , a bit of a lyre . |
| 5 | Which is rather like saying that slum-dwellers would rather live in the slums than anywhere else — there they are in the slums , are n't they ? |
| 6 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 7 | However , wrote Goldberg , turning the page and tearing it slightly in his eagerness to go on , my son is rather short-sighted , something he has inherited from his mother , and recently , during a school trip to Dieppe , he dropped his glasses and cracked one of the lenses . |
| 8 | But after slaving over something for ten years , it is rather nice to show it off a bit . |
| 9 | However , this is a book about the philosophy of mind rather than experimental psychology , and the main point that I want to make is rather more philosophical than psychological . |
| 10 | If you ever think that your woodwork is rather good , to church . |
| 11 | Program start-up is rather annoyingly interrupted by a 15s delay at a screen showing Jandel Scientific 's reminder of the licence agreement , followed by a summary screen showing the program 's status in terms of memory use , maths coprocessor installation , estimated processing speed rating for the detected hardware , and various user-modifiable program settings . |
| 12 | My own position is rather different . |
| 13 | In practice , binary oppositions are very liable to favour one term at the expense of the other , and there can be no doubt that Bakhtin preferred the dialogic to the monologic ( a bias that is evident in everyday English , where to engage in dialogue is good , and to utter a monologue is rather bad ) . |
| 14 | And a letter of 30 August 1934 is particularly interesting , since it is rather plainly a reply to protests from Binyon about Pound 's contemptuous treatment of Rubens . |
| 15 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 16 | To move from ‘ art ’ to ‘ craft ’ is rather plainly a further contraction , or diminution : and it will be radically misunderstood unless we remember that for Pound the level of craftsmanship ( not just in letters , but in supposedly humbler trades also ) is a register , a thermometer-reading , of the good or ill health of a period or of a society . |
| 17 | It is rather comforting in a way . |
| 18 | Few of us , driven by the irrepressible instincts of the Stone Age , are capable of recognising that shifting your hedge is rather like moving the sitting room furniture around . |
| 19 | The effect is rather like an extended advertisement for Marlboro Lights . |
| 20 | I get into a No Smoking carriage and , since the station interior is rather dark , switch on a light so that I can read Berlioz . |
| 21 | It is rather like a Labour Party conference , without the block vote . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , though , when one sees the film from which this line was borrowed , a gloriously overheated melodrama by King Vidor entitled Beyond the Forest ( 1949 ) , one is rather startled to hear Davis deliver it with a quite unstudied , unfussy brusqueness and without any of the intonational posturing that Albee has attributed to her . |
| 23 | The question is rather exactly when , where and how he died . |
| 24 | This is rather like growing up and buying your parents . |
| 25 | ‘ I think you 'll find that pushing to the front of the queue is rather frowned on , ’ an official disdainfully informs him . |
| 26 | He has also , inquiries revealed , sold rather more than the 40 or 50 paintings suggested by the Saatchi Collection spokeswoman in mid-week , and the pattern of his sales suggests that what we are seeing is rather more radical than a ‘ refinement ’ of the collection . |
| 27 | The beer , for example , is rather good , so is the coffee . |
| 28 | Buying a dinghy of your own is rather like buying a car . |
| 29 | It is rather like warfare , the seesaw of offensive and defensive , of tank armour and the high-velocity penetrating bullet . |
| 30 | The audiences of working men who acclaimed Joseph Chamberiain were not just afraid for their jobs , though the fear of German competition was real enough — the three men , in a speech of Chamberlain 's , unloading trucks containing German wire , who remarked ‘ this is rather hard : we used to make this ’ . |