Example sentences of "[prep] quite a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " 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 | So what what I 'm that that that 's the sort of basic outline and I see it as an opportunity of putting the name in front of quite a lot of schools |
| 6 | I am one of the hon. Members who has started a business from scratch and who has been an employer of quite a lot of people whose jobs were created out of that initiative and enterprise . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was noticeable that there was a willingness on the part of quite a number of voters to express as many preferences as there were candidates and the comment was sometimes made that while it was not too difficult to decide which candidates should be given first and early preferences and which candidates should be given last and later preferences it was less easy to decide the order of preference in which the middle range of candidates should be placed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It felt like quite a haven of peace in comparison to Bamford . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | You want a piece with quite a bit of fat marbling the inside . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | erm , my name 's from Edinburgh a couple of jobs one which is the sort of presentations I do tends to be one to one the hardest one for me as I say meetings with quite a lot of people there |
| 16 | If so , public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies . |
| 17 | We struggled this year with quite a lot of helpers but few with any previous experience . |
| 18 | I remember then with great affection and with quite a lot of pain . ’ |
| 19 | I went out with quite a lot of men before I met Stuart . |
| 20 | So there 's a reciprocal relationship with quite a number of schools in this area of a rather novel and to us extremely helpful and rewarding kind . |
| 21 | I had worked there , and that was when I was sixty five , so I 'd worked there all my working life , apart from the , the war years and had served under quite a number of people really . |
| 22 | We do n't name him but whoever is in a particular spot should be responsible for a certain area , which in in fundamentally it is done that in quite a number of instances but I mean one thing that springs to mind is that a lady shall clear the ladies toilets . |
| 23 | It is unlikely that we shall come up with a mechanical formula — in quite a number of cases , judgments will be necessary ; but I would be surprised if the guiding principles did not lead to pretty definite answers in the majority of cases . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Coordination at its highest , when we develop it , we say we 've developed skills , and if you 've done that can you see you acquired skills in quite a lot of situations , and again that 's an area where you 'll get a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 27 | Is there anything else that I can do for her cos she says she is in quite a lot of discomfort at the moment . |
| 28 | In the slide in which I showed the overall results it appears that about half the patients , the erm marker tumour had been eradicated and in quite a lot of patients there were tumours present . |
| 29 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 30 | On quite a number of occasions that enthusiasm spills over and then another emotion comes to the surface . |