Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and quite [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to round off the season , just before the Festival , the inimitable and quite unrivalled Moving Picture Mime Show . |
| 2 | The thick and quite shaggy coat is usually a reddish brown like the Highland , or sometimes yellow , white or Shorthorn roan . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , behind the constitutional difficulty that its inclusion would have imported , the substantive and quite general point remains : industrial democracy as specified in the terms of reference of the Bullock Committee is not compatible with the rights of ownership . |
| 4 | Commitment offering oneself to the lord in the service of the church and the world is the third and quite prominent element in the service of confirmation as we have it , and as we say in a day when emphasis is being laid on the ministry of the whole people of God there is surely value in a definite act of commitment on a definite day . |
| 5 | It is not that Jesus himself was God and man in the special and quite unique sense that Christian dogma had so long maintained . |
| 6 | Third , the Mental Health Act Commission has a specific and quite narrow remit to protect the rights of detained patients , to ensure that the provisions of the Mental Health Act of 1983 for consent to treatment are followed , and to investigate individual complaints . |
| 7 | And there , as they say , the matter rested , for there was now nothing further we could do ; and Meehan might have had to serve many more years in prison had not a further and quite unexpected twist come to this most tangled of cases . |
| 8 | From being an additional safeguard for those already arrested , the necessity principle becomes , in the hands of the Home Office , the basis of a separate and quite independent set of criteria justifying arrests that would otherwise have been unlawful . |
| 9 | To a large degree , all of these developments can be traced back to a sudden and quite unexpected revolt against the drive and direction of nineteenth century thinking . |
| 10 | The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right . |
| 11 | Once again , our ignorance is very great ; but wherever we go in Europe , we find traces of what seems to have been a widespread and quite accepted practice , before the papal reform and the insistence on celibacy . |
| 12 | The first stage from Sonning followed a leisurely and quite beautiful route along the Chilterns to Luton . |
| 13 | To historians of the left the new popular culture represented a fatal and quite decisive fragmentation of what should have been a working-class consciousness . |
| 14 | The STV 's evangelists , however , proclaim that under their system the selection of candidates is determined by a single and quite different factor , which ( they say ) actually enlarges the voter 's freedom of choice . |
| 15 | ‘ Such is happily not the case in Boston , ’ the assistant said , making a final and quite unnecessary adjustment to Ellie 's new hat . |
| 16 | These optimistic perspectives were quickly abandoned by Khrushchev 's successors , and under Brezhnev it began to be claimed that the USSR had achieved no more than the construction of a ‘ developed socialist society ’ , a new and quite distinct stage of Soviet development whose further evolution into full communism would be a matter for the fairly distant future . |
| 17 | UK company Software Partners ( part of GST , the people behind Timeworks ) has stepped into this bells-and-whistles world with a new and quite large range of simple to use , very low cost programs that are single minded and , for the most part , single use . |
| 18 | The burglary of the offices of the Democratic National Committee was a harebrained and quite unnecessary enterprise and the case against the president that eventually forced his resignation could never have been constructed without the re-installation of recording devices in the Oval Office . |
| 19 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 20 | Mr Clinton also disclosed that he intended to offer what he called ‘ an aggressive and quite specific plan ’ of aid when the two men meet next month . |
| 21 | President Clinton has promised to present Yeltsin with ‘ an aggressive and quite specific plan ’ when the two men meet at the beginning of April ; the Group of Seven leading industrial nations is discussing ways to help ; and yesterday the EC Commission floated the idea of offering Russia the prospect of greater trade access when its political and economic circumstances allow . |