Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] quite [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 2 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 3 | The activity was sustained for quite a long time by pupils who , according to their label , have difficulty sustaining anything . |
| 4 | It also made for quite a wet ride as the Seayak ‘ bobbed ’ downwards . |
| 5 | I have … often been worried that we are imposing more and more on a system of collective ministerial decision-taking that was designed for quite a different era . |
| 6 | This was news to me , although I knew Graham Fearnley , who was Jack Mason 's agent and looked after quite a big stable of European golfers . |
| 7 | okay so it , yeah it looks like quite a reasonable number of people possibly |
| 8 | Looks like quite a long meeting . |
| 9 | Students of typography come from quite a wide range of backgrounds . |
| 10 | ‘ No , darling , but Mother and Lady Selvedge have come from quite a long way — miles , really — and those two young men talking to Ianthe are strangers , and I dare say Mr Stonebird will look in , ’ said Sophia comfortingly . |
| 11 | The discourse analyst , with his ‘ ordinary language ’ data , is committed to quite a different view of the rule-governed aspects of a language . |
| 12 | They have n't been moved for quite a long time , and it 's funny how buildings which claim to have extraordinary flexibility sometimes turn out to be really quite rigid . |
| 13 | The inspection and the self-appraisal seemed to be two entirely different processes : each operated with quite a different agenda and entirely different methods were used in each case . |
| 14 | Surely we should n't allow that c to continue and surely that 's er that 's er can be made into quite a semi-formal type of that 's not on is it ? |
| 15 | It is apparently done in quite a crude fashion , using a look-up table . |
| 16 | One example is the late Triassic brachiopod Halorella , which is large and distinctive and which has been recorded from every continent except Antarctica , in rocks dating from quite a small span of late Triassic time ( figure 2.1 ) . |
| 17 | Borrowing or buying on credit tends to he seen in quite a different light from other consumer transactions . |
| 18 | came from quite a wide area way up in the hills Airedale and all that area , at the foot of the Cleveland hills |
| 19 | He was born in seventeen sixty , in the middle of France , really , erm , and he came from quite a large family . |
| 20 | By the early part of the 19th century , the business had grown to quite a sizeable concern , and consisted of scribbling and burling shops , wool lofts , a dye house , as well as a rack teaze and Webb 's substantial home . |
| 21 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 22 | In a month , she thought , in just a month , I might be looking at quite a different view . |
| 23 | It is also advisable not to wear contact lenses , as you will have your eyes closed for quite a long time , usually about twenty minutes . |
| 24 | And as we heard this morning Jesus told us a parable about a mustard seed , although it 's small it grows into quite a large shrub . |
| 25 | In my opinion Karenin acted in quite an unpredictable way but I think this was because he was so entirely shattered by Anna 's actions . |
| 26 | However , that does have its positive side — it gives my staff the opportunity to go to meetings and take responsibility when I 'm not there , so it can be used in quite a developmental way . |
| 27 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 28 | As you can see this goes into quite a high degree of detail . |
| 29 | He took this work seriously and developed into quite a muscular specimen . |
| 30 | Mornings had indeed developed into quite a happy routine of little errands and duties for Aunt Emily , the hens and the sea ; and if she felt now , as quite often she did , an incomprehensible longing for something wilder and freer and more satisfying than this domestic round , she put it down to needing to be in the open air more and gave herself , next morning , a longer spell on the smooth buff sands of the bay . |