Example sentences of "'s quite [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's quite confident about the maths now with intermediate , he says that er , he does n't see |
| 2 | It 's quite dry at the moment really . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's quite small at the moment — he only takes size 5 ½ boots — but we 're expecting him to grow . |
| 4 | It 's quite possible for the adventurers to waste a lot of time on trivia before — and maybe even instead of — finding the object of their quest . |
| 5 | That 's quite specific to the tax bracket but the source of work in Leeds has been very much from er corporate finance and from the insolvency practice , whilst that is er obviously a way forward for us in the initial stages . |
| 6 | that talk about the company of which I 'm chairman is that there is a personnel and compensation committee which in the absence of a chief executive sets the chief executive 's remuneration and with the presence of the chief executive , although he 's not , I 'm not a member of that committee we work on the other senior executives of the company , it 's quite similar to the process used here in your company . |
| 7 | It 's quite long in the reading |
| 8 | He 's quite keen on the family dog , too . |
| 9 | I must emphasise that these conclusions are quite tentative , because of the lack of data , hopefully as we carry on , and maybe get more schools involved , we 'll get a bigger set of data , then we can actually do some statistical analysis , and , to be more certain of the results , but it shows general patterns that we 'd expect , so it makes , it shows that it 's quite easy for the schoolchildren , and it fits in very well with their geography courses , and the new G C S E curriculum . |
| 10 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 11 | yeah he 's quite happy with the whisky , yeah . |
| 12 | Ousley 's quite happy with the way it has all panned out ‘ because MIPS did n't have the wherewithal to do all it said it could . |
| 13 | Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme . |
| 14 | Erm although we we have n't really really discussed this , I suspect that given the the scale of development proposed in in Selby District , it 's it 's quite likely on the basis of what I 've heard from Mr , that Leeds are going to raise objections to development on on the western side of Selby District generally because that that area is just as close to Leeds . |
| 15 | Yeah I think it 's , it 's quite constant throughout the sort of , what , eighteen different points about how things should take place . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , it 's quite clear from the letters which hit my desk that we are throwing away many of these opportunities — |
| 17 | Erm , it 's quite clear from the district auditor 's letter that he thinks that we 're not being systematic enough , about what we do about environmental improvements , and it seems fairly clear to me to , that if we just push the to the service committees , erm , nothing will ever happen , except possibly on planning , and that erm , it will just sort of quietly disappear because it 's not the top priority of any of the other service committees . |
| 18 | Yeah , well Friar Lawrence because he 's quite important to the plot . |
| 19 | ‘ The interesting thing is , ’ I said , ‘ that it 's quite different for the people who work in the shop . |
| 20 | ‘ People are seizing us because we 're able to write good songs in a stylistic vein that 's quite different to the way songs have been written recently in contemporary music . |
| 21 | Wayne said tell Martine when she cuts your hair she 's not to cut the sides a lot , she 'll cut it , it 's quite different from the length between the sides and the back . |
| 22 | What 's quite remarkable about the necks of these guitars is that they 're as straight as could be ; one might have expected , after a quarter of a century festering away in an old warehouse , that the day-to-day fluctuations in temperature and moisture would have wreaked havoc . |
| 23 | I think it 's quite unnatural for the trade unions to have discussions with the government . |