Sentence examples for was sometimes rather from inspiring English sources

(The subsequent task of trying to establish whether the author was British or not was sometimes rather more difficult).

Reitz was sometimes rather brazen in his political statements, so when he – incorrectly – claimed the South African Republic to be a fully sovereign state, the British jumped on him.

Its officials are sometimes rather unimpressive and shamefully careless in their choice of words.

For individual stakeholders, preferences were sometimes rather different between the interviews, which could be largely explained by the constructive nature of preference formation.

We found that in particular regulating services, and some provisioning ones, are quite well recognized by substance specialists, but are sometimes rather unfamiliar to the general public.

It may not be surprising that people are sometimes rather skewiff in their assessments of some issues, but the gulf between perceptions and reality are quite staggeringly wide.

Yet some of Shiva's devotees also worship other gods, and the "Shaivization" of various ancient traditions is sometimes rather superficial.

He added that the sessions were sometimes rather lively affairs, and asked if I would like us to follow the unit ahead.

Mrs Molesworth is a very present voice as a narrator: "For fairies, you know, children, however charming, are sometimes rather queer to have to do with.

We review the experimental evidence, especially the anomalous experimental observations of interest to engineers, concerned with enhancement (which is sometimes rather dramatic) in heat, mass and momentum transfer during the flow of such "slipping fluids".

Zakrevksy pointedly replies, "You are quite sure about that?" Shostakovich, with unmarked but somehow palpable trembling, returns, "Well, you see, they were sometimes rather crowded gatherings.