Example sentences of "[to-vb] quite a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocent 's chancery — which was to bear quite a heavy weight of governmental responsibility during the pontificate — appears to have been run personally and autocratically by the pope . |
| 2 | ‘ I was extraordinarily lucky in starting off in a post that was small enough and compact enough to enable me to meet quite a sizeable proportion of the population . ’ |
| 3 | It is useful for these trials to cover quite a wide range of classes to test the reaction of different groups of children and also to give the teacher and observers the opportunity to see how effective their use of the unit becomes with experience . |
| 4 | and he said crikey look at this , what am I gon na do here and he sort of had to fill quite a big gap in , but he sort of pushed it and filled it and then the wallpaper goes up so you can just see it , a little bit , what 's a name now , just in the hall there 's a bit |
| 5 | Can I put in a bid I 'm working with er er Dave Williams on the launch of this drugs hotline and there 's a need to do quite a large mailshot of the posters in the |
| 6 | Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather . |
| 7 | The popular daily press in the Edwardian years began to give quite a prominent place to sport . |
| 8 | Whilst we 're able to implement quite a considerable proportion of the er , objectives without any financial commitment , this particular er , issue does erm , provide us with a considerable test , and members need to know that in order to achieve the move from residential care to community care , we would have to have some ring-fence monies to be able , to enable that shift to , to take place , before the erm , the budget could be reduced on the residential side . |
| 9 | To have a legal estate , whether freehold or leasehold , is to enjoy quite a considerable degree of individual freedom , within the private space accorded to you by the law . |
| 10 | She does seem to have quite a free hand for a woman under twenty one |
| 11 | You seem to have quite a large sense of pessimism about how to deal with this problem , Frankie . |
| 12 | It is possible , nevertheless , to take quite a different view of the relationship between the binary policy and perceptions of the universities — a view which would have resonances in the developing higher education systems of many other countries . |
| 13 | Now they were feeling the need to order quite a large amount of food for ‘ skinnys ’ , especially ones whom possessed at some point in time the ‘ narrow cup ’ . |