Example sentences of "not quite [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Zealand rugby and the All Blacks were not quite protected by the armour-plating they wore in the two years after the 1987 World Cup triumph , but the Irish would pay testimony to the fact that the All Blacks had become a very hard bunch of men by the end of their tour . |
| 2 | What a lot of people are doing is they 're not putting up rails but they 're putting up a erm a border halfway up are n't they , or just not quite halfway up the wall . |
| 3 | Er I I 'm not quite sure of the relevance of this . |
| 4 | After that , she was not quite sure of the sequence of events . |
| 5 | If you are not quite sure of the sort of kitchen that will best suit you , ask yourself the following ; questions : |
| 6 | Vicky sang 0 Bird of Love , and although not quite sure of the words , I did Fanny Leslie 's Jack-in-the-Box Song . |
| 7 | But I I th I think what we 're talking about is the fact th that Ma you know he 's writing in nineteen twenty seven , that , that he 's not quite sure about the means to an end , he 's sort of writing he , you know , it 's , in a way it 's like writing an essay |
| 8 | I was not quite sure about the pitch . |
| 9 | I am not quite sure from the map where Presteigne station was , but it looks as if the PCBCR would not have run into it directly , merely to a junction outside the town . |
| 10 | ‘ How is it going ? ’ he asked eventually , hostility not quite masked by the neutrality of the question . |
| 11 | Roget gives , in one paragraph , words and phrases that are closely related to a word or a phrase that came into your mind but is not quite right for the sense you are trying to convey . |
| 12 | My stuff is not quite right for the kiddies . |
| 13 | Like some people get a kick out of crossing the Atlantic in an old bath , so my particular surgeon , for all his great skill , is not quite right in the head . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ There are some stories which say that I am not quite right in the head and some that I am full of evil powers . |
| 15 | Just in , just in passing on this committee I 'm assured will be concerned of the apparent difficulties between er the Highways er and the organization of Suffolk and that in Norfolk , erm and we shall be I think er wishing to look at that er to see what 's going astray and something appears to me to be not quite right in the relationship and er , erm I think it 's important that er adjoining Highway Authorities do in fact get on |
| 16 | You can tilt it in any direction , and measure the genetic distance , and hence the minimum evolution time , between any point on the plane and any other ( annoyingly , that is not quite true on the page , because the computer 's printer distorts proportions , but this effect is too trivial to make a fuss about , although it does mean that you will get slightly the wrong answer if you simply count blips on the scale ) . |
| 17 | It appears , although this is not quite clear from the MoS , that they are YTS trainees , whose pay levels are set by the government . |
| 18 | This distinction should be preserved ( even though the Russian verb is not quite square with the English ) , since it belongs to the novel 's overall life-against-logic argument : in theory the student would kill her , but in fact he wo n't . |
| 19 | Oh you 've got a speak problem today , the brain 's not quite functioning with the mouth , is that right ? |
| 20 | True , this is not quite fair to the industry . |
| 21 | The Islamic world , even in Wimbledon , thought Robert , was not quite ready for the fusion of styles unleashed on it by Mr Malik . |
| 22 | The belief that lavish entertainment was an indispensable part of successful diplomacy was not quite dead by the mid-century : a generation earlier the vicomte de Chateaubriand on his appointment to London had been careful to take with him Montmirel , reputedly the best cook of the age . |
| 23 | He was not quite satisfied with the way his mind was working . |
| 24 | Elizabeth was not quite satisfied with the end of the book . |
| 25 | Sometimes that 's not quite understood by the public . |
| 26 | Yes I 've got that I jus I was n't quite sure about the SSP . |
| 27 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 28 | Erm I was n't quite certain of the wife 's P H I there was something about twelve months and she was getting a hundred and thirty pounds er I , I lost it because I was looking at the clock at the same , I must confess but erm |
| 29 | They were n't quite right for the room . |
| 30 | The first outing of the season against a well rehearsed Cradley Heath , showed the potential of the new line up , but it was n't quite alright on the night . |