Example sentences of "and quite [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The same goes for Nietzsche 's very limited work on such topics as his " Homer 's Contest " , apparently begun in 1871 and quite unrelated to the material of BT , but arising out of his earlier philological studies . |
2 | Most of the studies discussed so far have used laboratory tasks , often ones in which the source of arousal is artificial and quite separate from the material to be remembered . |
3 | Indeed , Eusebius is quite explicit and quite emphatic about the importance of monarchy : ‘ Monarchy excels all other kinds of constitution and government . |
4 | Her actions are unquestionably deedy ; they bear no theoretical burden , unlike Kirillov 's suicide ; they run deeper — while she is on the job — than the paper person in her , and they make a rigid , final opposing of the profane midwife and the God-seeking husband academic and quite inadequate to the novel . |
5 | 28–1 At a congregation meeting they resolved that , as under present circumstances the Spiritual and moral interests of the congregation and the large outlying population can not be adequately attended to while Bowmore remains a mere station of the church , seeing that when probationers and Deputies of the Church come their stay is but temporary and quite insufficient for the necessities of the place , that an effort be made to raise the contributions of the congregation to an amount which might warrant the Presbytery to recommend to the Assembly that Bowmore be made a regularly sanctioned charge . |
6 | When you know you only have half an hour or so you can become quite absorbed and interested , and quite jealous of the limit you have set yourself . |
7 | For example , the use of law in litigating the illegality of nuclear war may be sensible in the USA and quite foolish in the UK ; while reinforcing legal ideologies may seem sensible in the Netherlands , it may be dangerous in West Germany . |
8 | Despite what Dr Goode and others have said , however , I think the law and ethics governing the situation you 've been hearing about are both understandable and quite sensitive to the needs of patients and doctors . |
9 | Third , lead isotope values lie in a small coherent field ( ) similar to the Dupal group and quite different from the trend for mid-ocean-ridge and ocean-island basalts . |
10 | And erm it was we looked at one hospital and quite clear over the years , but there was an internal leak somewhere . |
11 | There he was force-fed poppy-water , an extract of opium guaranteed to leave the drinker crippled and quite insane within the space of a few months . |
12 | And strange to say , it had coal fires in the winter , huge coal fires to keep it warm , or attempt to do , and most of the classrooms were only divided by portable partitions so that while we went from class to class as the two or three years went by , it really was in one long building and quite adequate for the time . |