Example sentences of "are quite [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B T was the one really big hole , erm , and others like Health Care , as you say are quite close to the procedure that it 's not an enormous hole . |
| 2 | The cutaways are quite pronounced below the horns , turning into the fretboard fairly high up ( the 20th fret for the top , the 22nd for the lower ) and giving the bass a very contemporary and streamlined look . |
| 3 | This is not to say that food reinforcers are quite immune from the operation of a mechanism like that supposed in Solomon and Corbit 's opponent-process theory . |
| 4 | Badgers are quite rare in the Doncaster area , where digging and baiting is said to be rife . |
| 5 | Metal ores are quite rare in the forests , so the Forest Goblins trade with other Goblin tribes , swapping captives and fungus for ores from the mountains . |
| 6 | However , if you are quite unwell at the point of conception and during the pregnancy and/or you are injecting drugs , the pregnancy could lead to HIV-related illness . |
| 7 | Do you think there is a lot of that , people are quite proud of the work they 're putting in ? |
| 8 | It operates through military attaches at overseas diplomatic missions and also runs its own network of spies such as , for example , the Portland spy ring , which are quite separate from the KGB . |
| 9 | These fees are quite distinct from the money you will need for living , travelling , buying books , etc. , which will probably account for a further £3500 to £5000 ( these figures are based on 1989/90 standards ) . |
| 10 | Many pathogenic bacteria are quite specific in the species of fish they affect , leaving other species in the pond unaffected . |
| 11 | A performance such as this persuades us that such assessments are quite wide of the mark , and almost as unjust as the neglect of Summer 's Last Will . |
| 12 | Yes , I 'm sure most people by now are quite familiar with the use of computers in this way . |
| 13 | I 'm sure most people by now are quite familiar with the use of computers in this way . |
| 14 | For Mexico , the shared border with the United States and the dramatic devaluations of the peso explain the rapid growth in the 1980s , but other features , for example , the changing positions of indigenous managers and technicians , are quite typical of the spread of economic transnational practices in employment and other areas . |
| 15 | The graphs we are concerned with are quite unrelated to the sort which physicists and engineers draw on graph paper . |
| 16 | It is typical of vertebrates that the muscles which move the fingers are quite remote from the fingers themselves . |
| 17 | We are quite satisified with the quality of our staff . |
| 18 | The tendency for horizontal influence to extend into regions that are quite unaffected in the absence of stratification is loosely analogous with the same tendency in other types of stratified flow as discussed in Section 15.1 . |
| 19 | Physicists envisage this in two apparently different ways : either as streams of particles known as photons ( which are quite different from the particles of which atoms are composed ) ; or as waves . |
| 20 | These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code . |
| 21 | This shows conclusively that the egg cytoplasm could completely alter the gene activity in the transplanted nucleus , because the genes active in gut and skin cell nuclei are quite different from the genes active in early development . |
| 22 | The permanent swimmers belong to four main groups : the squids ( which are cephalopods — molluscs — related to the octopuses ) ; the bony fish , most of which belong to the group known as the teleosts ; the sharks — which are quite different from the teleosts , though they are also commonly referred to as fish ; and the cetaceans , which are the whales , dolphins and porpoises and are , of course , mammals . |
| 23 | It goes without saying — though the mythical , baby-eating reductionist is reputed to deny this — that the kinds of explanations which are suitable at high levels in the hierarchy are quite different from the kinds of explanations which are suitable at lower levels . |
| 24 | Matters are quite different in the case of the first wording ‘ I ask that you be content with that thing ’ . |
| 25 | Sudden storms are quite common on the Sea of Galilee . |
| 26 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 27 | One of the reasons for the ban , says a press officer at the DoE , even though the police are quite amiable about the rally , is that ‘ on the same day Class War applied [ to have it ] , Tim Scargill was quoted in the Guardian as say-ing : ‘ Let's get on the streets and start making a few waves . ' ’ |
| 28 | They are quite interested in The Bump , though I suspect it is really to do with power broking — who is going to get the new bedroom , and who is going to choose the name when it 's born . |
| 29 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 30 | Many believe strongly in the need fo Japan to be different and to retain what they see as its own traditional modus operandi ; they are quite satisfied with the roles which society expects them to play . |