Example sentences of "[adv] quite [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his mind 's eyes Lexandro could no longer quite capture nor comprehend the essentially alien anatomy of his quondam sisters . |
| 2 | For a moment he could not quite think why he was trying to poison Elinor . |
| 3 | When Eddie gets the brush off from his new female boss ( the very wonderful Robin Givens ) , director Reggie Hudlin cues up comic reversals ( she stands him up , drops in for a quick fuck , he bleats about commitment ) , which may not quite reflect the complexity of modern sex wars ( no mention of Aids here ) but are still funny . |
| 4 | Colonel Fergusson , who could not quite bear to inform his daughter that the human family sprang from the same impulse which animated a beetle striking its head against the walls of its box , replied that in his view the Fergussons were a happy accident . |
| 5 | I missed Ozawa 's sheer rhythmic energy at times , such as in ‘ Porcus 's Introduction ’ , where Baudo does not quite manage to bring out the basic dance rhythms behind the music . |
| 6 | It can not quite manage . |
| 7 | There was a momentary reaction at the back of his eyes , though she could not quite manage to interpret it . |
| 8 | In truth that phrase does not quite fit the Jacob/Esau narratives . |
| 9 | You may find that the pieces do not quite fit together perfectly , this is because large areas of metal sometimes warp very slightly in the casting process . |
| 10 | Indeed , the creative and performing arts never seem to have become entirely integrated into the system — they do not quite fit standard CNAA validation procedures for example — and this is perhaps no bad thing . |
| 11 | Something about the way I looked did not quite fit the picture they had envisaged . |
| 12 | Somehow , too , because it did not quite fit her and hung gauchely in parallels and was kept with such care , spots of dirt sponged out and the dress frequently brushed and pressed , it made her seem , touchingly , much younger . |
| 13 | ( b ) You will note that I have put some elements in parentheses , for example because , to suggest that they do not quite fit into the analysis . |
| 14 | And yet , Theodora reflected , the hatchment did not quite fit her memory of what she had seen . |
| 15 | As regards orchestral direction , the troupe did not quite fit accepted categories ; to begin with , there was no continuo player ( spoken dialogue replaced recitative ) . |
| 16 | He was not one of us ; he did not quite fit into the measured compartmentalised minds of the Service at that time . |
| 17 | Mick Keebles , the World Cup captain , heads the off-campus contingent , which also includes John Jenkins , a centre who briefly returned to rugby union with Waterloo on leaving Leeds Polytechnic , but decided it did not quite match the real thing . |
| 18 | Tug stared into a big kitchen/living-room full of old , heavy furniture that did not quite match . |
| 19 | Both eliminated boats , however , could not quite match the quiet efficicency of the way New Zealand and Il Moro de Venezia , of Italy , progressed through the Louis Vuitton semi-finals . |
| 20 | Development through Drama seemed to provide just this and became a set text worldwide , but as with most formulae , the recommended practice often does not quite match the philosophy . |
| 21 | While Smart 's contemporaries failed to appreciate the sublimity of his Song to David , later critics have signally failed to agree on its construction and Smart 's own note of explanation does not quite match the case . |
| 22 | Soldered into one corner of one of the swaying carriages is a solitary , plain , ordinary , short-hair-cutted man clad in a fairly new dark blue suit which does not quite match his black hair edged with grey or his furry , hairy watch strap . |
| 23 | As with so much of what he envisaged , the reality did not quite match the vision . |
| 24 | Even a user who starts a search with a specific subject in mind may find that it does not quite match his requirements after all . |
| 25 | For him apparently , although no moralist , the answer ‘ I enjoy it ’ does not quite settle the matter . |
| 26 | NEEDING four points from the six singles to beat Scotland on the opening day of the Womens Home Internationals at Hermitage Ireland could not quite bring it off and lost in the end by 5–4 . |
| 27 | The History Eighth , which had assimilated G. K. Chesterton and E. C. Bentley immediately before Thomas 's short stay there , could not quite swallow him , nor he them . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , he said of those clockmakers who were attempting to make such a timepiece that ‘ they can not quite perfect their work ’ . |
| 29 | Propositions like " Men exist ( or actually exist ) " , it is claimed , look odd and mysterious , and their quantified " canonical " paraphrases , while admittedly helping to remove any suggestion that such propositions might have a subject/predicate structure , do not quite succeed in alleviating the mystery . |
| 30 | She did not quite feel ready to hear about the nights . |