Example sentences of "quite [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions of genre , central to any theory of television , are inextricably bound up with questions of repetition and difference , and television raises these questions in quite specific ways . |
| 2 | The political rhetoric of the Alliance constructed the working-class electorate in quite specific ways . |
| 3 | I hope that God does not look at life in quite that way . |
| 4 | One hesitates to dispute this judgement , coming as it does from a source with such impeccable credentials in pitiless cynicism , but the fact remains that the young men of Oriel did n't see it quite that way . |
| 5 | I 'm sure it 's pure coincidence , but I doubt if all those outside Names staring ruin in the face will see it quite that way . |
| 6 | She appears not to have worshipped alongside her husband at the chapel ; he was a full member , and his daughters would later follow in his footsteps , but Ann never committed herself in quite that way . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't put it quite that way . |
| 8 | The Leader of the House may not operate in quite that way . |
| 9 | It 's not quite that way . |
| 10 | He 'd been so angry ; she had never seen him quite that way before . |
| 11 | She had n't looked at it quite that way before . |
| 12 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 13 | This they did in a quite literal way : Otto the Great , at the moment of his accession in 936 , went to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in Charlemagne 's own city ; he donned Frankish costume for the ceremony of investiture , was anointed and crowned in Charlemagne 's basilica . |
| 14 | In practice , though , the system does not work quite this way . |
| 15 | As far as I know , no one has used an ad which is actively involved in selling a product in quite this way . |
| 16 | But none of them lay still in quite this way . |
| 17 | She had not intended to bring this out into the open in quite this way , but she was left with little option , and she had a vague instinct that in the long run it might reap results . |
| 18 | But the effect of " however " here does not focus the contrast in quite this way . |
| 19 | And that 's I ca n't help thinking that 's really got quite some way away from the original idea . |
| 20 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 21 | ( Pound had studied some of the same French poets , notably Laforgue and Rimbaud , but he had profited by them in a quite different way from Eliot , and he was averse to the central thrust of the symboliste endeavour , to which indeed the imagist or imagiste movement which he had sponsored had been intended as a challenging alternative . ) |
| 22 | Fowler had similar basic data but presented in a quite different way . |
| 23 | Many health professionals were strongly attracted to the idea because it put them in touch with the community in a quite different way from their private clinics or hospital services . |
| 24 | This possibility of resumption , of the fulfilment of the promise of endless flow temporarily threatened by interruption , seems to me to operate in a quite different way than the cinematic cut , occupying a different structure of time , a different relation to fantasy , and motivated less by desire , loss and lack . |
| 25 | A quite different way of creating a chimaera is to fuse two early mouse embryos . |
| 26 | From the standpoint of the ozone layer , there is a quite different way of responding to the allotment phenomenon . |
| 27 | A quite different way of extending humanity 's average lifespan concerns genes and the age at which we reproduce . |
| 28 | Classes , on the other hand , are related in a quite different way , since they are engaged in struggle at the economic , political and ideological levels . |
| 29 | God might have annexed colour sensations to the kind of light reaching our eyes in ; quite different way from that which he has done , so that the very same things ( in their real nature ) which are red to us might have been blue , and vice versa , or we might have experienced , quite different range of colours in the same physical situations . |
| 30 | The mammals of the northern hemisphere have a quite different way of going about things . |