Example sentences of "[adj] [be] quite a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I like to use a Drennan Super Specialist pattern in these circumstances , the size 10s are quite a tough hook and with the thick wire gauge relative to the size of the hook they retain the boilie very well . |
2 | Some are quite a major commitment , some a small but regular commitment , others no more than an hour or even a few minutes of your time . |
3 | This is quite a nice keyboard , it 's a , yeah I like it . |
4 | This is quite a nice bird |
5 | Paragraph , this is quite a major job , as I am sure you will appreciate it and I think a consultant is very likely a must for us , bearing in mind our various units . |
6 | You may not realise that this is quite a recent phenomenon . |
7 | This is quite a long way down for coins of this period and it would explain why I was n't finding anything earlier . |
8 | Now this is a good idea , and in fact there 's a fair amount of circumstantial evidence that geologists and astronomers who know something about the earth 's atmosphere have looked into to suggest that this is quite a feasible mechanism for the formation of prebiotic molecules . |
9 | I mean this is quite a good idea actually . |
10 | When you have seen an egg broken into a frying pan of hot fat so that it turns from a clear fluid into a rubbery opaque solid , you are inclined to believe that this is quite a good way to cook an egg . |
11 | Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ? |
12 | This is quite a challenging assignment , but you 'll find it worth the effort . |
13 | This is quite a specific issue , and I 'm not sure that this committee on this day is in the best position to discuss it in detail . |
14 | This is quite a wide range of profit-making prices . |
15 | This is quite a simple cake to make as it is based on plain round sandwich cakes . |
16 | If I can bring a report by March I will do so but it , this is quite a complicated area . |
17 | And this is quite a lengthy procedure , and you might have made mistakes at all sorts of different point . |
18 | This is quite a steady climb but well worth it for the superb views . |
19 | As this is quite a difficult idea , which I have no space to elaborate here , readers are recommended to read Scott-Hodgetts ' paper cited above . |
20 | This applies especially when teaching a dog to sit , because this is quite a relaxed posture and any distractions will upset the dog 's concentration . |
21 | More generally one can say that for attitudinism ethical statements invite the hearer ( or perhaps the speaker when in discourse with himself ) to express his agreement or disagreement in attitude , or perhaps join in a shared attempt to arrive at some stable and better based attitude , towards what is in question , and that this is quite a different matter from any discussion concerning the psychological state , of approving or disapproving , on either the speaker 's or hearer 's part . |
22 | One might try to construct formal models in which the phrases of ( 15 ) and others receive distinct representations , on the grounds that differences do exist in the types of situation which the phrases correspond to , and indeed such attempts have been made ( cf. for example Kamp , 1975 ) ; but this is quite a different matter from trying to model the syntax by which the phrases are assembled as phrases . |
23 | This is quite a common feature of sensory cells , including tactile ones . |
24 | This is quite a common preservation in coal measures . |
25 | It was a fundamental reorganisation , because fourteen private companies working in rivalry with one another is quite a different thing from fourteen companies being merged into a single corporation with a single objective . |
26 | This was quite a good bargain for the monks , but it did not silence all their criticisms . |
27 | This was quite a normal thing at that time and neighbours would call to pay their last respects . |
28 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
29 | And his point was you know , this was quite a long dream , you know , th i the manifest content , the whole argument of the dream , took some time er and his objection was , how could Freud 's theory explain this ? |
30 | That is quite a substantial drop from what we have had in the past ; in 1988/89 we get something around £17 million a year . ’ |