Example sentences of "quite [adv] [adj] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But clever though the cruel invaders were , they were not quite so clever as they believed . |
| 2 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 3 | The walls were no longer quite so solid as they had seemed , and each white-suited attendant seemed to conceal an assassin dressed in black . |
| 4 | By night the bars can get quite lively , although not quite so wild as they get during the winter months when the skiers reenact their greatest runs . |
| 5 | But it was hard to scowl , she found , when her heart was suddenly skittering at the way the dark eyes were quite openly smiling as they continued to focus on her now lightly rising bosom . |
| 6 | It was the very same story the time oor Isa sent for the stilettos very much against my advice as it happens but they were supposed to be real made-in-England leather uppers available in three colourways , aubergine , aqua or avocado well , as she said herself she was expecting green but nothing quite as Irish as they turned out in fact to be . |
| 7 | IBM Corp enabled Wall Street to start last Tuesday with a smile on its face , reporting first quarter net profit of $1.04 a share , significantly ahead of analysts ' best estimates — but the figures are not quite as good as they looked , because a change in the basis of recognition of software revenues . |
| 8 | The mother , dialling the number on the phone , said , ‘ I 'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are . |
| 9 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 10 | But customers were no longer quite as wide-eyed as they had been when first faced by all this merchandise . |
| 11 | Thus , it is often pointed out that the statistics of murder include many domestic killings , the implication being that the figures are not therefore quite as grave as they seem . |