Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] quite a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years between his father 's death and the outbreak of the First War , this became quite a grand establishment . |
| 2 | This represents quite a significant change because it signals that the authorities were inclined to let market forces have a greater influence on the volume of credit ( and therefore the stock of money ; see Chapter 5 ) as well as the recipients of credit . |
| 3 | Actually , with the exception of Oldham , and 4 home and only 2 away matches , this looks quite a tricky fixture list for them . |
| 4 | Erm now given , what less than five months er before this May the fourth directive , Mao is still saying that , this marks quite an important shift in policy . |
| 5 | As the medical he describes should take around forty minutes , this forms quite a neat equation . |
| 6 | This takes quite a long time and slowly the boat turns around . |
| 7 | This creates quite a serious problem at shows because he frequently has to be dope-tested after a successful performance . |
| 8 | This went quite a long way towards soothing enraged newspapermen and the dinner terminated quite peacefully , although on its termination my drink stock was reduced by two whole bottles of whisky . |
| 9 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 10 | This gives quite a small buttonhole . |
| 11 | This proved quite a successful theory for a number of years , in that it stimulated a lot of research and produced a corpus of compatible experimental results . |
| 12 | Actually this makes quite a good conversion |
| 13 | MCM provide quite a good assembly instruction leaflet with photographs depicting the 48 stages of the assembly procedure . |
| 14 | Some of the poor made quite a good living from these services and one can imagine an efficient ‘ bush telegraph ’ system to alert others of forthcoming requiems . |
| 15 | Whilst we 're able to implement quite a considerable proportion of the er , objectives without any financial commitment , this particular er , issue does erm , provide us with a considerable test , and members need to know that in order to achieve the move from residential care to community care , we would have to have some ring-fence monies to be able , to enable that shift to , to take place , before the erm , the budget could be reduced on the residential side . |
| 16 | SATURDAY 'S Charity Open at Prehen in aid of the Waterside Churches Trust Ltd attracted quite a large field of competitors . |
| 17 | Indeed and I think the er the point about Eurofighter is that it 's a very flexible er aircraft , it 's a multi-role aircraft , it 's a cost effective aircraft and therefore it er , as you say , may well be able to cover quite a large spectrum . |
| 18 | That means quite a slow speed in practice . |
| 19 | 46521 hauled quite an extensive load which included three vehicles from the ‘ Royal Scotsman ’ train , two support vehicles from the Severn Valley Railway and two ex Southern Railway bogie brake vans from Eastleigh . |
| 20 | North and South Trust Co. v. Berkeley [ 1971 ] 1 W.L.R. 470 raised quite a different problem . |
| 21 | The boys of Standard Seven did quite a clever act — there was a screen across the stage on which music had been painted — the notes were holes in the screen and the boys had their heads through these whilst in their mouths were small bazookas — small sound instruments . |