Sentence examples for it was the rather from inspiring English sources

It was not just the 50-degree heat in Basra that made the album difficult: it was the rather more pressing threat of a rocket attack.

It was the rather aimless nature of the possession that had infuriated him, nullifying Chelsea's intent and inviting pressure as it did when Bate found some rhythm of their own on the counter.

By a cruel trick of destiny, it was the rather perfumed and hyper-refined Gielgud who - at the end of his life, by playing characters on film and television essentially as himself - ended up being regarded as the more real of the two.

(In Trump's case, that had included accusations that Obama was a crypto-Muslim, non-American, traitorous, ISIS-serving, criminal and illegitimate President, who was blackmailing Clinton; in Obama's, it was the rather clearheaded observation that Trump did not appear to be fit for the office).

Instead it is the rather more mundane matter of tax.

Above it are the rather rusty diesel tanks that provide the village with fuel.

If there's one thing gay men recognize about their milieu, it's the rather severe ageism that pervades it.

It was the late 1980s rather than the late 1970s.

It was the exception rather than the rule.

Rather, it was the sense of waste.

Rather it was the system.