Example sentences of "[adj] [be] quite an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is quite an achievement in view of the size and the regional diversity of a country such as the United States . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | This was quite an achievement for an organisation only a few months old . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |