Example sentences of "[prep] quite [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After quite a lot of persuasion and promises of chocolate bars , I finally got back into my canoe and headed off down the river to find my paddle and the rest of the group . |
| 2 | But elsewhere , despite quite a bit of stodge , there has been evidence of lively and ( that old critical standby ) interesting , if not necessarily very innovative , work from a wide range of quarters . |
| 3 | The first finger and thumb are capable of quite a lot of flexibility , which enables them to grasp like primates . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's eight years — firstly as assistant then as coach — of quite a lot of enjoyment . |
| 5 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 6 | One , one might be that for people who are on a fairly low income or on benefits , the home-loss compensation which the council was offering did i would in fact seem like quite a lot of money erm and for any tenants who were n't in arrears , then they would receive the full amount . |
| 7 | It felt like quite a haven of peace in comparison to Bamford . |
| 8 | The patient may have enjoyed gardening before his stroke or head injury , and it is an activity he can return to even with quite a degree of disability . |
| 9 | ‘ It was a varied , highly satisfying climb , ’ says Walsh , ‘ with quite a bit of ice up to 55 degrees ; VS standard rock , albeit with old fixed ropes , and some tiring plodding through knee-deep powder . ’ |
| 10 | You want a piece with quite a bit of fat marbling the inside . |
| 11 | And of these fourteen families , two returned their cheques , with quite a lot of ceremony , to BP Coal once they discovered what in fact BP Coal were up to in the district ’ . |
| 12 | If so , public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies . |
| 13 | I remember then with great affection and with quite a lot of pain . ’ |
| 14 | It 's , it 's by actually looking at , well I , in Bill and Kevin 's appraisal I actually tackled it through their appraisal because we discussed , in quite a lot of depth , erm what their workload and ways in which they could change their workload |
| 15 | The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called . |
| 16 | Is there anything else that I can do for her cos she says she is in quite a lot of discomfort at the moment . |
| 17 | Oh , yes , because rings come in to quite a bit of wear do n't they ? |
| 18 | On a purely practical note , all this added up to quite a bit in value and Ivy Cottage did not appear to have any extra locks or catches at the windows . |
| 19 | Little economies when they are added up , come to quite a lot of money each month . |
| 20 | This type of sampling has given rise to quite a lot of criticism when used for political poll surveys . |
| 21 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 22 | Whereas in most databases you have to go to quite a lot of effort to create the linked structure , in Delta Five it is expected that your databases will have this structure , and you have to work quite hard not to conform ! |
| 23 | She appeared to have gone to quite a lot of trouble over the meal , Although , at that time , rationing was still in force , she produced pâté , a savoury mince , a surprisingly light lemon soufflé and a passable bottle of claret . |
| 24 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |
| 25 | And it does so in syntax which calls for quite a feat of structuring and interpreting . |
| 26 | they sold it for quite a bit of money and |
| 27 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 28 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 29 | The Davidsons ' publicist Clifford Elson said last night : ‘ Jim 's going away for quite a while over Christmas which will give the situation a chance to defuse . |
| 30 | Do you like to know where , for quite a while in advance what you 're going to sing then ? |