Example sentences of "[was/were] quite a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was quite near the plane now and there were quite a lot of newspaper photographers around her , but she did not stop walking . |
| 2 | There were quite a lot of loss right enough . |
| 3 | There 's , there was quite a bit of apathy where horse secuirty is concerned . |
| 4 | So we 're going to Scarborough in this big yank 's car and the fellow said if we do n't , if want it I 'll give you a fiver , for petrol like and that it was quite a bit of money then . |
| 5 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 6 | So there was quite a bit of business in Newmarket for anyone who |
| 7 | I came to the conclusion that there was quite a bit of room in the psyche of the British clockmaking establishment for a little humility . |
| 8 | I chose Canberra because there was quite a nest of chick workers there , including one of my own past students . |
| 9 | It was quite a litany of aggression , even though on at least one count she was entirely innocent ! |
| 10 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 11 | After nationalization , there was quite a number of university graduate appointed as yard masters , station masters . |
| 12 | One doctor did not come , and one did , plus two medical students and I asked some of my friends too so it was quite a mix of age and stage but went very well . |
| 13 | We have in the past raised this through the er Association of County Councils in the education side , with and we , there was quite a lot of support , and also have had support in the past from er , Kenneth Carlyle and Douglas Howe erm who were , supported the view , er which was particularly in relation to youth training , as this is more adult training we 're talking about here . |
| 14 | Of course , 10 years ago it was quite a lot of money but all it enabled me to do was move out of a flat in London , put a deposit down on a house and start a family . |
| 15 | Four hundred pounds a year then was quite a lot of money . |
| 16 | That was quite a lot of money then was n't it ? |
| 17 | You did n't want above £5 or £6 to buy a horse and cart at that time o' day because it was quite a lot of money . |
| 18 | And that was quite a lot of money |
| 19 | According to 's account there was quite a lot of abuse by the Party members who had actually managed to blackmail and embroil different peasants or |
| 20 | Mm , there was quite a lot of publicity given to that was n't there ? |
| 21 | There was quite a lot of discussion in the Mid-Wales District Council about this nomination erm it was n't , that reminds me yes it was |
| 22 | Very clear and pretty complete account really of , of what I 've you to cover but it was quite a lot of ground erm she went over and er some of it may be less easy to understand than other bits . |
| 23 | Yet , as David Widgery points out : ‘ It 's important to remember that there was quite a lot of opposition within the underground against whatever flower power was . |
| 24 | A few years back there was quite a lot of trouble . |
| 25 | I know there , there was quite a lot of encouragement to actually leave your dividend in and build up interest on it . |
| 26 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 27 | But in the very early universe , everything was very close together , so there was quite a lot of uncertainty , and there were a number of possible states for the universe . |
| 28 | But the bread soon turned green in this time of year and there was quite a lot of penicillin about hence . . |
| 29 | It was quite an act of faith ; the Friends present were fired up with enthusiasm , but it was freezing cold , the media coverage was pretty disheartening and the public reaction was less than encouraging . |