Example sentences of "quite [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the method is somewhat wasteful , being quite the converse of Labov 's telephone survey in this respect . |
| 2 | The crowds have not spat out his name with quite the virulence they showed for Mr Milos Jakes and Mr Miroslav Stepan , the Prague party supremo , in their last days , but there has always been an underlying , almost universal contempt . |
| 3 | It is not irrelevant that Barnaby Rudge is concerned with the Gordon Riots of 1780 , although The Warren is not consumed with quite the virulence that destroys the chateau of Monseigneur in A Tale of Two Cities ( 1859 ) during the French Revolution : |
| 4 | One trusts that its astronomers were n't quite the size of Patrick Moore or getting to work could have been problematic . |
| 5 | The village is not quite the paradise it once was . |
| 6 | ‘ Elusive ’ is n't quite the word , however . |
| 7 | Live there did not seem to be quite the word for someone whose residence there appeared so transient . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think that 's quite the word to describe my feelings — ’ |
| 9 | Charity was not sure why she suddenly felt so … uneasy was not quite the word . |
| 10 | Well , league and cup matches may not have quite the lure of England and Australia , but , as far as I can tell , clubs are doing their utmost to keep rugby 's momentum going . |
| 11 | And anyway , ’ he nodded in the direction of the dance floor where a young girl in a T-shirt and torn jeans was entwined in the arms of a dreadlocked Rastafarian , ‘ I 'm not quite the type for the regulars here . ’ |
| 12 | She said homeopathy had come full circle now and it was quite the in-thing to be treated by herbal remedies . |
| 13 | I bet he turns out not to have been quite the hero he makes out . ’ |
| 14 | He may not have attracted the cameras in quite the way the Princess did , but he certainly brought recognition and respectability to every company or organization whose threshold he crossed . |
| 15 | Few Americans are revered in quite the way that sports stars are . |
| 16 | ‘ But that 's not quite the way it was . |
| 17 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |
| 18 | To abandon them at such a moment implies that they did not , after all , mean so much to the animal — they were not a ‘ safe haven ’ in quite the way they had pictured themselves . |
| 19 | Nor were the financial departments in France and Germany in any way independent of the royal household , even though in the nature of things the royal treasury could not be carried round with the king on his travels in quite the way in which the relics were . |
| 20 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that the voltage at pin-14 does not behave in quite the way in which you suggest . |
| 21 | The visit turns out to be memorable , but not in quite the way George intended . |
| 22 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 23 | Not everyone holds IBM Corp 's PS/2 product line in the highest possible regard , but few would put it quite the way Reuter did : ‘ the PS/2 Server is a faulty tolerant server system designed for Novell NetWare environments ’ it declared roundly . |
| 24 | This was closed three years ago — Peter Craine , Rabbit 's vice president for marketing and sales , explains that the firm then did n't have any national language support for its MS-DOS products ; also , Unix — Rabbit 's favoured environment — had n't taken off in quite the way the firm had expected . |
| 25 | Pornographic eroticism , I will argue , is , therefore , to be condemned , but it does not function in quite the way some feminists have argued that it does . |
| 26 | Twenty years earlier , he could not have seen it in quite the way he does , for even in Repton 's modem living room ( Fig. 7b ) the structural features of a room , together with the figures of its occupants , still dominate the furnishings ; these are sparse , and still tend to have their backs against the wall . |
| 27 | erm in quite the way that sending them a letter on headed notepaper is . |
| 28 | Quite the way I 'd planned it . |
| 29 | But Purcell did not set the lyrics in quite the way their writer had mapped out for him . |
| 30 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |