Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] quite [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 2 | Eugenists argued for a quite different understanding of how norms and averages were to be calculated . |
| 3 | The " experience of men of our race and culture " in fact stands for the quite narrow culture of which the report itself forms a part . |
| 4 | Thus the unique authority of the Bible as the inspired Word of God came to be stressed with a quite new sharpness over against the established teaching . |
| 5 | The Beta release of presentations has come with a quite large amount of pre-drawn template material , which will be included with the final release , and which makes actually forming a presentation very simple . |
| 6 | Once you have gained the groove line the climb unfolds in a quite compelling way : superb bridging , solid locking finger jams and perfect protection lead up the plum vertical line . |
| 7 | All this has come in a quite unexpected rush . |
| 8 | Television is a mass classroom — for adults and children alike — in which we are educated in a quite narrow range of behaviors and values . |
| 9 | Where Mallet began in agreement with Blauner but came to different conclusions , Naville starts from a quite different position , arguing that work itself , under automated technology , is inherently unsatisfying . |
| 10 | This has been dealt with above , and it stands on a quite different footing from the other forgeries in three important respects : first , it was never mentioned by Lanfranc ; second , it was not concerned with the claim to primacy but solely with the survival of the monastic community at Canterbury , and this was never an issue after 1070 ; and , third , unlike the forgeries with which we are now concerned , it was actually submitted to Rome and approved . |
| 11 | Forty years earlier the promise of town planning was that it could address the urban housing problems of the day , but the principles of environmental regulations were now seen to relate to a quite different set of questions : the problems of regional economic development . |
| 12 | I 'm sure he 's in there somewhere , surrounded by a quite unfair bevy of beauties . |
| 13 | There are comparable cases in other areas of culture studies ( e.g. Williams 1961 ) , where what appears to us as the image of one section of society is actually fabricated by a quite different class . |
| 14 | ‘ Taylorism ’ is seen as the quite self-conscious pursuit of what Braverman calls the ‘ general law of the capitalist division of labour ’ , according to which |
| 15 | She had no intention of dancing another record with him ; Callum 's hands were far too slippery — in fact she was beginning to regret having anything to do with him at all ; the pleasant , confident smile that had greeted her at the beginning of the evening had now turned into a quite definite leer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sometimes the public distancing of Romania from its Warsaw Pact allies , especially Big Brother in Moscow , was done in a quite insulting fashion : Ceauşescu could even implicitly put the Kremlin in the same category as the White House : ‘ The small and medium-sized states refuse to play the role of pawn in the service of the interests of big imperialist powers any longer . ’ |
| 18 | This results in a quite misguided emphasis . |
| 19 | It was him above all she would be trying to impress by her break with convention — impress in a quite futile way , because it was obvious that he and Clare were permanently attached . |
| 20 | Another — and this is one of the most perfect sights in all cycling — is the silken action of one of those men who can sit perfectly still , hands lightly on top of the handlebars , and spin his legs beneath him as though their motions came from a quite different source of power . |
| 21 | During the course of the nineteenth century , archaeology moved in a quite different direction , becoming , like the earlier diffusionary theories , increasingly obsessed with objects as such , and treating them as having an independent behaviour in a manner which separated them from any social context and which amounted to a genuine fetishism or the artefact . |
| 22 | First , the collection of data depends heavily on published financial accounts which are produced for the quite different purpose of minimising company taxation , with corresponding differences in the definition of capital . |
| 23 | The activities of the new selection panel , which Laurie Mains now leads with a quite astonishing amount of newspaper and television exposure , are constantly in the news . |
| 24 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez' A Hundred Years of Solitude also begins with a childhood but it engages with a quite different feeling : |
| 25 | The term ‘ differencing ’ is also used in a quite distinct way from that of acknowledging feudal proximity , and that is to display family connections and descent . |
| 26 | In ordinary language , the word ‘ faith ’ is used in a quite different sense from that used by either Wesley or Locke and Copleston . |
| 27 | He or she will be someone to whom , owing to the quite serious situation they have become involved in , events of a comic , deflationary character happen . |
| 28 | For example , many villages have n't experienced the inmigration of young professional commuters , and in many areas , like Dorset , young adults are moving out and retired people are moving in ( Moss , 1980 ) leading to a quite different set of social problems . |
| 29 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 30 | The structure of excise duties is an historical anomaly , born of a quite different period and totally different market circumstances . |