Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] quite [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is possible to paint with quite a small brush the details of shadows and shapes of clouds — in fact more so than is generally accepted . |
| 32 | To perform well it has to be tightly targeted to cope with quite a narrow band of frequencies . |
| 33 | We walked for quite a long time and covered a good deal of ground . |
| 34 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 35 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |
| 36 | J : Sounds like quite a good song but the production 's weird . |
| 37 | And she goes and he goes erm sounded , sounded like a good sounded like quite a nice girl really . |
| 38 | If the first movement is played in quite a tough fashion there is room also for moments of expressive thoughtfulness . |
| 39 | The string retainer has been screwed down a little too low , resulting in quite a severe break angle over the nut , but if I 'm talking about that as a problem , then you can see there 's really not much wrong with the rest of the LX . |
| 40 | Every evening the make-up would be wiped off with a towel resulting in quite a large laundry bill for each Girl . |
| 41 | If one were to count heads , particularly among younger economists , Keynesian ideas were being eclipsed at quite an astonishing speed . |
| 42 | Well , my interest in allegory really began at quite a different point . |
| 43 | My interest in allegory really began at quite a different point . |
| 44 | There was also an acceptance , as the implications were worked out later in the paper , that Terminal courses with ‘ a good deal of teaching at quite an elementary level ’ were ‘ a most important part ’ of the WEA 's work ; that university graduates , who usually had a narrow academic education , could benefit from the breadth of learning offered by the WEA quite as much as manual workers ; that courses in literature and the arts were clearly a valid part of the WEA 's total provision because they attracted new members , taught the processes of serious study and by enriching lives helped ‘ in raising the quality of the public which has the power of judgement upon those set in authority over it ’ . |
| 45 | It works particularly awkwardly for married women at any age , since they may be employed at quite a different level from their husbands , or not at all . |
| 46 | The most dramatic of these increases in percentage terms are , not surprisingly , to be found where the earlier payment was small , as at Lavenham , Totnes and Tiverton , but even major centres such as Norwich and Coventry , which had been assessed at quite a high level in 1334 , showed a percentage increase above the national average . |
| 47 | In materials such as polyethylene , however , Keller finds that the long chains are arranged in quite a different sort of way . |
| 48 | The results showed that the orbitosphenoid in amphisbaenians , though apparently homologous to the same structure in lizards , is formed in quite a different way . |
| 49 | It is a useful first example for us to look at for it seems so simple — and yet even in something as straightforward as this , the structure can be adjusted in quite a sophisticated way . |
| 50 | It survived for quite a long time , until the accumulating ash had built up to such a thickness that its chain would no longer allow it to keep above the ash , and it died , its dreadful last moments clearly visible in its taut body , arched back and straining neck . |
| 51 | Experience of earlier privatisations is that the form of sale is rarely settled until quite a late stage in the exercise . |
| 52 | So perhaps you feel that while all this talk about kinship and affinity may make good sense in discussions of the social life of Australian Aborigines or of Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia , it really has very little relevance for ourselves who live in a social context in which , as a general rule , affinity is of little significance and the majority of social relationships outside the domestic family are coded in quite a different way . |
| 53 | Tomorrow 's top temperatures , 10 Celsius , 50 Fahrenheit , but it will drop off to a cool 7 celsius , 45 Fahrenheit , accompanied by quite a strong north westerly wind . |
| 54 | The disappointment with Wilson felt like Freud must have sort of lingered for quite a long time , cos it was not for eight years that he actually ventured on . |
| 55 | In exceptional cases , schools may have been included in the project without all the usual procedures having been followed with quite the normal rigour . |
| 56 | This set-up needs to be fished with quite a heavy lead of 2 oz plus and a short hook link of between five and seven inches . |
| 57 | It would lead to quite a massive rethink , ’ he added . |
| 58 | The design for Isvik was influenced to quite a marked degree by the Peterhead-type sailing vessels of the Mounties , also by a sketch made for him by that extraordinary Antarctic single-hander , David Lewis . |
| 59 | Taking the initiative , I led the way , following three skiers who looked as if they knew where they were going — they did n't , and we found ourselves poling for quite a long way before a unanimous decision to have an early lunch was taken . |
| 60 | whatever replaces R three and R three , and R three will have a product line for seven or eight years , we 're talking about quite a long time away . |