Example sentences of "quite so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November , when it 's not quite so hot , this drops to $296 ( £171 ) . |
| 2 | However , companies like Epiphone , Yamaha , Fender , Washburn and others offer ranges of cheap and not quite so cheap instruments which are well suited to the occasional strummer or picker . |
| 3 | But in the period covered by this book society was not quite so hierarchical as before or after ; nor did a man 's place in the sun depend on the number and dignity of his ancestors . |
| 4 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 5 | With job production , losing an order is not quite so critical because , providing the firm is being correctly represented , it should be invited to quote for the next order and perhaps be successful then . |
| 6 | But here Mr Lawson does not seem to be quite so indifferent to the behaviour of consenting adults : he has been endeavouring to control their behaviour by altering the price at which they can borrow . |
| 7 | We sang , a little earlier on , a song of er Wesley 's and back those two hundred and twenty , two hundred and thirty years ago , when Wesley was preaching in this country and in America , there was another preacher every bit as famous then , perhaps not quite so famous today , preacher by the name of George Whitfield and George Whitfield , he went around and he was preaching , and he preached on this , this text , John er , i in John three , you must be born again ! |
| 8 | The transformation is affecting the whole region — though the results are not always quite so striking . |
| 9 | It does n't look quite so elegant with a Wonderwoman T-shirt … |
| 10 | This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter . |
| 11 | Now if we take it just one step further , there was a lady well there still is a lady called and she did some research , what she was trying to look at was the the sort of body language if you like the actions that people er use and associate that to their personality and she looked particularly at people who were open positive communicators truthful I suppose but people who were open communicators and looked at the sort of things they did and also at people who perhaps were n't quite so honest and open and truthful . |
| 12 | If you want to do this for yourself the following method is not quite so accurate , but will give you the general idea . |
| 13 | It 's not wise to rely on your memory , which may not be quite so accurate . |
| 14 | They were n't quite so stupid as to believe wholly their own propaganda . |
| 15 | ‘ Heavens , no — I 'm not quite so stupid . |
| 16 | Though Gilbard 's was not quite so irredeemable a hovel as some have claimed , its shortcomings were plentiful enough . |
| 17 | The eighth one was n't quite so credulous , so he forged her will and smothered her . ’ |
| 18 | There is also the problem of breaking with tradition ; the House of Lords is accustomed to having the assistance of judgments from the Court of Appeal following full and careful consideration of detailed argument on the points of principle involved in an atmosphere which , though busy , is not quite so frenetic as that of the High Court . |
| 19 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |
| 20 | The young man — perhaps not quite so young after all , he might have been as much as thirty — came forward into the room , closing the door behind him . |
| 21 | At first she used a more rigid approach , along the lines of her training in Coburg , then gradually adapted and developed this to suit the English students who were not quite so young and athletic as their German counterparts ! |
| 22 | And I was n't quite so hopeless . |
| 23 | It was all right walking in the mountains but not quite so safe-looking to drive . |
| 24 | If we had to go to France , that would create other questions which may or may not be quite as acceptable to some of the hon. Friends of the Member for Ruislip-Northwood ( Mr. Wilkinson ) , whose suspicion of things European have been evidenced — Not necessarily the Conservative Members who are present , but other Tory Members probably would not be quite so keen on — as they would see it — mortgaging their nuclear future to the French . |
| 25 | In fact , my recent diet had n't been quite so reckless . |
| 26 | Dr Dan Tunstall-Pedoe , a cardiologist who directs the Marathon 's medical team , can not afford to be quite so sanguine . |
| 27 | The sociologist Émile Durkheim was not quite so sanguine . |
| 28 | As the Select Committee has made serious allegations about interference in its important work , is not it worrying that it has taken quite so long to make any progress in dealing with its complaint ? |
| 29 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 30 | She had n't intended to sound quite so vehement , but what she needed most right at this moment was to put as much distance as was humanly possible between herself and Adam . |