Example sentences of "[verb] quite [adv] [adv] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think things have got quite as far as that yet : ’ |
| 2 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 3 | No-one else had gone quite as far as that , and the self-conscious Thiercelin had tried to look as if Lefevre was nothing to do with him . |
| 4 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 5 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 6 | I put " as if " in quotation marks because electron spin is not a phenomenon which can be visualised quite as simply as that . |