Example sentences of "be quite [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only were customary tenants in the West Country , for instance , powerless to resist rising fines , it is quite feasible that everywhere the land was , to a great extent , actually cultivated by leaseholders or tenants from year to year paying an economic rent . |
| 2 | The law relating to covenants is quite complex but basically a covenant is a legally-binding document by which you transfer some of your income to a charity for a stated period . |
| 3 | This is quite correct and yet the preferences of green consumers are already impairing sales of poor-world wares like palm oil , coffee and sugar . |
| 4 | ( The growing scarcity of Persian village rugs is increasing their price , however , and it is quite possible that even the shoddiest of these will soon fall into the " medium category " ) . |
| 5 | With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation . |