Example sentences of "is quite [adj] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite appropriate that moral philosophers should group together children and madmen as beings not fully responsible for their actions , for as madmen are thought to lack freedom of choice , so children do not yet possess the power of reason in a developed form . |
| 2 | Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ? |
| 3 | Football has become the focus for a new kind of identity for working-class male youth and it is quite possible that other forms of sport — cricket for instance — will be similarly used . |
| 4 | But if the necessary very gentle offshore gradient can be produced on any type of shoreline it is quite likely that offshore bars may form . |
| 5 | As Laffin and Young ( 1985 , p. 59 ) conclude , ‘ it is quite clear that chief officers are going to have to live with an increasingly uncertain and tempestuous political environment and any new ground rules will be of limited value ’ . |
| 6 | In the Irish case , it is quite clear that close relationships existed between various politically influential individuals and officials of foreign mining companies ; the president of the Northgate group , for instance , was a personal friend of the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party , and of a number of senior Fianna Fail ministers . |