Example sentences of "[adj] was quite a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This was quite a good bargain for the monks , but it did not silence all their criticisms . |
2 | This was quite a normal thing at that time and neighbours would call to pay their last respects . |
3 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
4 | 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 ? |
5 | 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 . |
6 | And that was quite a good idea , because late at night following wedding parties and other , if anybody was behaving in an disorderly manner and people were returning home , they would always tell the policeman that they saw that a rowdy crowd were coming along . |
7 | But that was that was quite a good school , went through there via a Mr , he was a very nice teacher , very efficient , and he did n't believe in the cane , he did n't . |
8 | Careers librarians , that was quite a good point but we 've actually t got a group of professionals working within the service , we need to make sure they have access to other professional librarians and staff development that would be |
9 | That was quite a good game actually , in the end . |
10 | Er , that was quite a good place that Yasensgat whatever it 's called , was n't it ? |
11 | That was quite a useful move . |
12 | That was , thing is that was quite a long time ago . |
13 | It seems amazing now , but that was quite a regular thing with the big houses . ’ |
14 | Please continue to send papers for any relevant meetings and an attempt will be made to respond to appropriate issues , if there is any specific topic you wish to be considered , please do not hesitate to get in touch so I thought that was quite a nice letter seeing as I practically read them all |
15 | That was quite a nice dinner you ordered , though you need n't have been quite so Spartan — I 'm glad to see you 've allowed us some sugar with these raspberries — I appreciated your nuance of not having the fish just grilled . |
16 | Erm th that was sent away to London white metal that that that was quite a costly affair as well . |
17 | So presumably that was quite a popular piece of er legislation ? |
18 | " That was quite an important thing for me , " she laughs . |
19 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |