Example sentences of "[adj] be quite [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | This was quite a good bargain for the monks , but it did not silence all their criticisms . |
| 33 | This was quite a normal thing at that time and neighbours would call to pay their last respects . |
| 34 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 35 | 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 ? |
| 36 | Since the Province has a population larger than that of England , this means that this was quite an important personage roughly equivalent to the Minister for Higher Education in Britain . |
| 37 | This was quite the right thing to do in a coffee-bar in the King 's Road . |
| 38 | He remembered her as being pretty but this was quite the wrong word now . |
| 39 | This latter is quite an important point , because although it may not be immediately obvious , a deposit which consists only of large particles can be just as well-sorted as one which consists only of small ones . |
| 40 | 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 . ’ |
| 41 | If you have a vagina and a point of view then that is quite a dangerous combination . |
| 42 | At the moment I mean that is quite a boring sort of report |
| 43 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 44 | Erm and therefore I g I I I do think that is quite a big issue as far as this but all I these these all these arguments have been rehearsed as we 've said before , in housing committee , but I would just like to make one point and this is it . |
| 45 | It does say on it of course ‘ payable on demand ’ and not ‘ payable to bearer ’ in this instance , and that is quite an important difference . |
| 46 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 47 | I believe that if the post office changes hands , that 's quite a crucial time because the newcomers may have to put up front quite a large sum of money . |
| 48 | So that 's quite a radical shift , bringing it forward a whole hour . |
| 49 | Yes Oh that 's very good , that 's quite a good response then . |
| 50 | You know so that , that 's quite a good idea . |
| 51 | That 's quite a good idea . |
| 52 | Do you reckon that 's quite a good idea ? |
| 53 | Yes , I think I will , I think that 's quite a good idea , Joe 's getting her jewellery , so . |
| 54 | That 's quite a good idea is n't it ? |
| 55 | yeah that 's quite a good idea |
| 56 | And actually that 's quite a good budget to do sort of er four or five weeks er you know caravanning a year . |
| 57 | There 's quite a lot of those being arranged , that 's quite a good way of doing it . |
| 58 | For example they support the market square project and at the end of the day even with the total budget down to S S A the vast bulk of the money being spent by conservative budget 's been spent on people salaries but it 's still being spent on services and the labour party this year has lost the three elements keeping the tax down and that 's quite a good thing to see . |
| 59 | That 's quite a good attempt though is n't it ? |
| 60 | . Yeah I I if there 's anything else you want to know I mean I think that 's quite a good start |