Example sentences of "[adv] quite a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it 's just that quite right , we have n't got a fund , a major fund raising event now until July , unless anything else of , you know , smaller crops up and our two street collections we know will bring in quite a lot of money . |
| 2 | ‘ I had thought so but recently he hinted at another asset he hoped to dispose of that would bring in quite a lot of money . |
| 3 | Right , well I work in quite a number of Community Centres across the City , and Northway Community Centre which has a bar with quite a large turnover , a lot of members , er has agreed to host this project for the week , which is promoting healthier drinking . |
| 4 | At first the main change was that he began to give away quite a lot of money , mainly to Worcestershire charities . |
| 5 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 6 | Given that it is unobtrusive though , and it is possible to obtain a very concise response to a query , rather than having to read through quite a lot of text before finding the required information , it will at the very least save some time . |
| 7 | They 're they you they 're all worked you know sandpapered and polished that 's rough , what they call rough work and then you gradually go onto the maybe staining and the just quite a lot of oak and there 's quite a lot of mahogany and walnut . |
| 8 | The public consultations on options for the Ipswich northern bypass is being lined up at the moment at office level for mid nineteen ninety three , there 's still quite a bit of work associated with the preparation for that preliminaries that you see , but a more measurable benefit I think Chairman is er that the , that before there is a recommendation that the threat of widening |
| 9 | Tonight the dry weather will continue with still quite a bit of cloud , particularly over western Scotland . |
| 10 | The dust extraction system is quite efficient ; it certainly keeps a lot of the dust out of the air , but there is still quite a bit of dust on the surface of the workpiece after you finish sanding . |
| 11 | There is still quite a lot of opposition , so I do n't think it 's , it 's a certainty , but I would certainly very much hope and believe that this is the will of God for the Church and that , that it will happen . |
| 12 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 13 | And as you can see , even after three print I 've managed to lift off quite a lot of scum from the surface . |
| 14 | Gives off quite a lot of heat . |
| 15 | He had already brought home quite a lot of money . |
| 16 | ‘ In the present climate , I think people will be under quite a lot of pressure to begin building work as soon as possible when an answer has been given , ’ said principle officer for child services , Cliff James . |
| 17 | And it is you know it seems to take up quite a bit of time for members of staff and we do as many as we can but sometimes we have to say sorry we we ca n't do any more this week . |
| 18 | In time , you will begin to build up quite a body of knowledge on the ley system in your area , and may start to host trips for your local Earth Mysteries group . |
| 19 | The pressed steel system unit case is bulky by today 's standards and takes up quite a lot of desk space . |
| 20 | The more , the more , the more you put in the formula , that more memory it takes , but even a very simple formula , uses up quite a lot of memory . |
| 21 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 22 | This part of the event is taken very seriously , and the atmosphere was far from frivolous , building up quite a feeling of tension as the crowd grew . |
| 23 | But erm well you know what I mean th it was it was quite er It was really quite a sort of family atmosphere |
| 24 | And we agreed to do that , and we put out quite a lot of publicity . |
| 25 | ‘ She found he 'd drawn out quite a lot of money on Friday , from two building society accounts they 've got . |
| 26 | Mm even quite a lot of water inside I should think too . |
| 27 | Dennis ran down the concrete slope and leapt in as the craft relaunched itself with a loud splash , taking on quite a lot of water . |