Example sentences of "[adj] [be] quite a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it possible , this is quite a bit of work we 're just about to enter into , which we may have to repeat . |
| 2 | This is quite a battery of questions . |
| 3 | This is quite a novelty for me . |
| 4 | This is quite an achievement in view of the size and the regional diversity of a country such as the United States . |
| 5 | This is quite an advance on his initial assumption that poor Julian Darcy , the Rasputin of Bridport , economic theorist and prisoner of his nation 's conscience , victim of its guilt , indolence and fear , is the motivating force behind Darcy 's Utopia . |
| 6 | This is quite an argument against thinking that you can dispose of Saddam Hussein by bombing his country back into the stone age , is n't it ? |
| 7 | She did not add that this was quite a relief amongst the Anglican priesthood . |
| 8 | Given Khoneinis constant Anti-American rhetoric , this was quite a success for the United States and it led Ambassador with the new regime . |
| 9 | This was quite an achievement for an organisation only a few months old . |
| 10 | ‘ Twenty-five thousand is quite a lot of money , ’ he pointed out . |
| 11 | Or why is it that five men , brothers , can all be from the same womb , with the same father too , peas in the same pod ( if you prefer that expression ) yet can each be quite an individualist in all things , from habits to politics ? |
| 12 | That is quite an assignment for any historian in under 500 pages , and it is not Sir Ian 's fault if the reader often feels short-changed by being obliged to travel through so large a landscape guided always by the same question : what was the role of ‘ popular violence ’ in all this ? |
| 13 | And that 's quite a bit of saving cos |
| 14 | ‘ That 's quite a chunk of my life spent in darkness , ’ he says . |
| 15 | That 's quite a lot for a |
| 16 | That 's quite a lot of work for |
| 17 | Because that 's quite a lot of traffic going through there . |
| 18 | Excellent excellent excellent , cos that 's you know that 's quite a lot of maths in that and you get these sines and coses and omega T omega T and |
| 19 | That was quite a breakthrough in the recording of these works on period instruments , making me eager for many more discs of Haydn from him . |
| 20 | Yeah I was just looking at erm I thought that was quite a bit of resolute defending there from er Whitlow . |
| 21 | ‘ THAT was quite a highlight for me . |
| 22 | That was quite a revelation in those years of juvenilia . |
| 23 | That was quite a lot of money then was n't it ? |
| 24 | And that was quite a lot of money |
| 25 | Okay you covered all that okay yeah erm I think the objection bit you could 've been a bit better on that one erm cos that was quite a sort of bad one , well you 're not too sure about sort of giving his name or his telephone number out |