Example sentences of "[vb base] quite a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The balance sheet and P&L account provide quite a lot of information on the financial health of the company but it is in the nature of a snapshot of conditions at a particular moment in time .
2 The balance sheet and P&L account provide quite a lot of information on the financial health of the company but it is in the nature of a snapshot of conditions at a particular moment in time .
3 You may occasionally find you drop quite a bit of weight fairly suddenly .
4 They got you know quite a bit of stick for not being able to produce drawings that they said they had .
5 " Yes and I know quite a bit about history , geography and Latin .
6 Oh yes , I like and I know quite a bit about gardening and the names of the
7 Alison Cathie says , ‘ They will appeal to everyone : for people who know quite a lot about gardening they will be a rich source of ideas ; for people just starting out they give information like how to plant in a container . ’
8 We probably know quite a lot of people who are taking exams of one sort or another at the moment .
9 yeah , I get quite a bit of stuff for er
10 Now either way , obviously it 's a head injury and must be dealt with , but we 're going to do an overall thing here by saying right , now the next one on the list is concussion now concussion is shaking of the brain inside the skull now there 's noth no room for anything but the brain inside that skull , so if that 's shaken the brain hits against the sides of the bra of the er bone , and bruises so what actually happens here is the brain gets shaken and the nerve cells get damaged now you 've all seen this con and it 's so easily done concussion , you can go through a whole list of things which can cause concussion , road traffic accident , sport , construction working erm anything that erm , heading ball , football that 's another one that erm you get quite a bit of concussion and of course boxing
11 No I think white for here is best cos the sun is quite I mean you get quite a lot of sun do n't you on on on this side of the house .
12 But also you can get , you know you , you sometimes you can fall lucky and get quite a lot of prices from cold calling as much as reviewing this one little , renewing every , every six weeks and trying to think of something to say that you have n't said before , like I had n't told you or Pete , you know , things like that .
13 then erm that 's actually quite a worthwhile , you know some people get quite a lot of satisfaction from doing that .
14 One could , with a little research , produce quite a number of examples of dates of important deposits based on residual coins , but I will limit this to my own experience with the Swanpool kiln material when I was a novice in these matters .
15 I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened .
16 And another word , you use quite a lot of words do n't you ?
17 I think you have to evolve , develop quite a lot of detective sense , to meet people , to imagine where could further letters be that would help me , and you have to charm your way virtually into those houses , and persuade the people erm to let you look at Grandfather 's letters in the trunk in the attic .
18 and make quite a bit of money
19 We , we sell quite a lot of Amnesty products , a lot , a lot of clothing in every
20 you lose quite a bit of accuracy .
21 Though I have world-wide business interests which entail quite a lot of travelling . ’
22 We are publicized anyway by Eurostep and they do quite a lot of publicity — how effective their publicity is I do n't know , but we our publicity is as a back up to existing publicity .
23 I give lectures in the autumn , I do quite a lot of management seminars and inspirational speaking at sales conferences .
24 you put your glasses on to try and see , and you ca n't pluck the eyebrows because the glasses are in the way so we do quite a lot of eyebrow trimming , erm at salon .
25 They are good friends , do quite a lot of things together with their two young children , and are sometimes mistaken for sisters .
26 They do quite a lot of stuff in there .
27 Now this particular size , because do quite a lot of sizes as well , er , we do five different diary formats .
28 But if the objective of the advertising for such a brand is , in fact , to talk to newcomers to the market ( and there are always newcomers to any market ) , or to the unconverted , or to disloyal users of other brands , there is , obviously , a very clear , specific case for ads which carry quite a lot of information , presented in a suitably attractive way .
29 He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it .
30 erm people were starting to move out , and I think that , I think quite a lot of people , well although they 'd had a lot of information from the Local Authority , were still very unsure about how that would affect other benefits , in particular supplementary benefits , and single payments , and that , that , grants for , for the furniture , that kind of thing .
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