Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] quite a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 2 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
| 3 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ My horse has got quite a high cruising speed and , even if we stay in the middle , he is more than capable of galloping his way back into the reckoning . ’ |
| 5 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 6 | The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place . |
| 7 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 8 | ‘ It has taken quite a large chunk out of our lives , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Your life has taken quite a different turn since then . ’ |
| 10 | This Committee has rejected quite a large proportion of the officers proposed statements . |
| 11 | But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not |
| 12 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 13 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 14 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 15 | I see you 've got quite a full house here . |
| 16 | Little mini and run it for a year , run the engine ru non stop for a year and it 's going to use quite a few gallons . |
| 17 | Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days . |
| 18 | You seem to have quite a large sense of pessimism about how to deal with this problem , Frankie . |
| 19 | Today , however , we 're going to examine quite a different area — how computers can help librarians to make better use of their stock . |
| 20 | however , we 're going to examine quite a different area how computer can help librarians to make better use of their stock . |
| 21 | The popular daily press in the Edwardian years began to give quite a prominent place to sport . |
| 22 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 23 | Having considered quite a complicated multiplier appropriate for an open economy , it is still worth while considering the ‘ standard ’ fiscal multipliers , usual in public finance texts . |
| 24 | You t you said about morale being , but why , and the , having met quite a few tenants from the flats , who in terms of individuals that have come in here , you know , to , to seek advice . |
| 25 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 27 | Mr le Gros , who sang a serenade filled with double entendres to his fickle mistress in the Ballet des plaisirs , must have had quite a high voice since he was normally assigned parts notated in either alto clef ( C3 , the usual clef for the high tenor voice known as the haute-contre ) |
| 28 | Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather . |
| 29 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |
| 30 | On the list of officer casualties appeared the name of a young company commander who Pétain recalled had been particularly eager to join his regiment , and had seemed to have quite a promising future . |