Example sentences of "was quite [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Secretary 's statement when announcing the new Bill was quite blunt about the purpose of structuring the Bill in this way . |
| 2 | An ambulance spokesman said : ‘ A clean cut is better to save the limb , but it was quite rough at the end so it does n't sound too good . ’ |
| 3 | Flaked tuna with mayonnaise was new to her but she had managed and was quite proud of the results . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've got many contacts there and it was quite easy for the management to arrange gigs . |
| 5 | She was only wearing a threadbare old cloak she had seized from the hallway as she came out , but she was quite warm after the exercise and she did n't want to go in , alone , back to the remnants of her mother 's angry despair . |
| 6 | The girl 's hand was cold now , although it was quite stuffy in the passage . |
| 7 | ‘ He was quite nice at the end . ’ |
| 8 | George Washington , a Virginia gentleman whose home at Mount Vernon was quite close to the salt water of Chesapeake Bay , could ride off to the frontier with no difficulty and acquire land to sell to future settlers . |
| 9 | Thus she was quite close to the bath chair before she realized that its waxen-faced occupant was none other than the old man who , in his eerie fashion , had been so kind in the train . |
| 10 | In the twelfth century marriages were generally arranged by parents , guardians or overlords , so this move was quite normal for the time , marriages being primarily matters of finance or territory , rather than of the heart . |
| 11 | John 's grandmother , Betty Hind , lived there and she was quite famous in the dale as someone you did not trifle with . |
| 12 | What had occurred was quite contrary to the wishes of the padrone who would be outraged if he ever got to hear of it . |
| 13 | Such an expressed provision carries the inference that contact may well become appropriate after the six-month interval and was quite contrary to the conclusion of the local authority that contact between T. and her father was quite inappropriate in any circumstances presently foreseeable . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the system never worked properly , was quite inadequate for the broker 's needs and was eventually scrapped . |
| 15 | The thin gown of emerald green silk was quite inadequate to the task of concealing what lay beneath . |
| 16 | It was quite traumatic at the time to be sick or unwell in such a situation but you did your very best and succeeded in putting it all right . |
| 17 | Auntie Muriel has old-fashioned ideas about what 's ‘ natural- , everything should be natural , which is pretty stupid when you think where she lives , Anyway , she was quite content with the weeds and the gummed-up filters . |
| 18 | He was quite content with the food as long as he could have a plentiful supply of fillet steaks and his daily dose of freshly squeezed orange juice . |
| 19 | I was quite sure at the time that I would n't want any more children . |
| 20 | Well I was after coming off and er I was quite used to the rocks you know that type of er station so . |
| 21 | Because it had taken place so long ago and was one of those things which could happen to anyone , she was quite unconcerned about the accident itself . |
| 22 | WordStar ( the company ) was quite late into the Windows market , and then came into it with an OEM deal . |
| 23 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 24 | I was quite young at the time of course . |
| 25 | Lucy was quite pleased by the Magistrate 's interest and was considering making him one of her favourites . |
| 26 | Actually , my legs were so tired I was quite grateful for the lift . |
| 27 | Since conventional fighting on any scale was quite unacceptable to the Europeans , flexible reponse should be used essentially to deal with localized crises . |
| 28 | It was quite unacceptable at the time to the British Communists . |
| 29 | Player told the crowd that Olazabal was the best young player in the world and that he was quite impressed with the way he had scored so well while playing so poorly . |
| 30 | But it was quite impossible for the TCPA or me to bless the Plan unreservedly . |