Example sentences of "[adv] quite [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was obviously quite excited at the prospect of an end to his life of celibacy , but remained a perfect gentleman even though he went very blue in the face in his excitement . |
| 2 | At that stage , they were obviously quite concerned about the situation . ’ |
| 3 | The sun had set and it was already quite dark in the Gardens . |
| 4 | They come from a Moscow Club , and are still quite overwhelmed by the experience . |
| 5 | It is still quite dark in the tent . |
| 6 | Nick just seemed subdued , rather pale , still quite shocked by the crash . |
| 7 | Curriculum history ( still quite thin on the ground ) may stress prominent innovators or pioneering national laws or documents , but many classroom practitioners are usually hardly aware that their practice is being slowly , almost subliminally modified by a variety of external pressures . |
| 8 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 9 | It is also quite normal for the rugs of small villages to be marketed under the name of the nearest large rug-producing town , providing of course that there are strong similarities between their rugs ; items produced in villages around the Persian city of Hamadan , for example , may be collectively referred to as Hamadans . |
| 10 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |
| 11 | It is also quite soft on the bottom , and the newsprint does come off far too easily . |
| 12 | The Inland Revenue ca n't take it off you , ’ says Lord Teviot , who is also quite open about the fact that all a Lord has to do to qualify for his expenses is to walk into the chamber , have his name logged by a doorkeeper and walk out . |
| 13 | Those Jesuits were probably quite big in the Indians ' history . |
| 14 | The L1 + granulocytes were often quite numerous at the base of the villi and in the crypt area ( Fig 1A ) , while CD68 + macrophages were relatively predominant near the tips of the villi ( Fig 2A ) . |
| 15 | Falls to thirty two degrees centigrade or ninety degrees fahrenheit the following can occur and that 's a big drop , that 's a drop of five degrees in this country we 're very used to rapid temperature changes in our environment in the spring you can have frost in the morning and it can get really quite hot by the afternoon , sometimes up to about seventy ca n't it ? |
| 16 | And one of the most ironic features of the present debate as a matter of fact is that Steve Gould , who 's been the most vocal exponent of the punctuationist view , and indeed of the view that there 's something really quite special about the specification of them , his own field work is concerned with a mollusc snail called serin erm from the West Indies , which , when it was first described by anatomists , was classified into several genera and several hundreds of different species . |
| 17 | Capable of an impressive 110 mph the little car — it 's 10 inches SHORTER than a Mini — is now quite rare as the company which made the kits shut down after only 15 were sold . |
| 18 | This is reflected by the fact that , in the absence of express provision , it is now quite legitimate for the employee to compete with his old employer and to canvass his customers . |
| 19 | It was now quite dark in the garden . |
| 20 | What is not always made clear , however , is that the February agreement was economically quite favourable to the USSR . |
| 21 | As for Unix , as we said way back in 1984 when we forecast that it would come to dominate the mainstream market , it is fundamentally quite inappropriate as the basis of a robust commercial operating system because it is designed for free sharing of resources and code between users , where one of the most important requirements of a mission-critical operating system is that the crass behaviour of some idiot wo n't bring the system down . |
| 22 | One particular change in this pattern which has been detected in Scotland is structurally quite different from the New York City change : |
| 23 | I have the opportunity to buy a used Aero Winch Ltd , capstan winch , outwardly quite similar to the Fairey unit . |
| 24 | Bob Roberts himself is a monster never quite accessible to the cameras or us , vilifiable only by off-the-cuff remarks ( ‘ Do n't take crack , kids … it 's a ghetto drug ’ ) , and opposed only by Bugs Raplin ( Esposito ) , a wired outsider-hack linking him to every scandal of the '80s in a string of fact-filled rants . |
| 25 | He wears the kind of exaggerated Giorgio Armani suits which never quite blended into the Govan landscape . |
| 26 | Yeah er if you , what was on tonight was er on the , there was a T V programme on tonight called What the Papers Say and the editor Alistaire Campbell was on tonight , he is actually quite left-wing and this paper will , is actually quite vehement about the government , much more than the Sun would ever be , it 's quite interesting , yet that is owned by Murdoch , but I have to say that I think that is only because Murdoch is n't liked in that way since to have |
| 27 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 28 | I think I mean I got the impression on several occasions that he 's actually quite nervous in the post . |
| 29 | Many unemployed people are actually quite invisible in the sense of one of the things that happens when you 're unemployed is that you 're not actually being taken out of your home environment so much , and unemployed people spend a lot more of their time at home than erm do employed people . |
| 30 | Right , well I mean I think it , it 's actually quite simplified by the fact that I do n't think there actually is a firm date for the budget review before the next P and R anyway . |