Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy made quite a good joke . |
| 2 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 3 | ‘ Ian looks quite a good keeper all-round . |
| 4 | I think centenary park has quite a ring to it . |
| 5 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 6 | Should the discussion stray just once from generic to specific advice , however casually ( ‘ the Borsetshire Union has quite a good deal on offer at the moment ’ ) , investment business has been carried out . |
| 7 | ‘ The album made quite a lot in royalties , but it 's not like anyone 's bagging vast amounts of money , ’ says Neneh . |
| 8 | Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation . |
| 9 | Most New Zealand rugs get quite a hammering ’ |
| 10 | No freehold property is mentioned in his will , but his goods , chattels and savings constituted quite a nice little nest-egg for his sons and his daughter — and was not ambition for one 's children one of the marks of a Victorian middle-class man ? |
| 11 | In this case the animals get quite a good deal , but in neither case do they contribute much to wealth . |
| 12 | Yeah that football sounds quite a good idea |
| 13 | Now this kind of ordering text on a page if you 're using a typewriter takes quite a lot of skill but if you 're a , with a word processor it 's actually quite easy . |
| 14 | Dr Neil felt quite a pang . |
| 15 | This is an initiative which is enabling schools to pay quite a lot of attention to vocational matters . |
| 16 | The Pahls in their study had quite a high rate of non-co-operation : twenty of the group of 113 managers whom they wanted to study did not complete the questionnaire ( although the response rate was higher from the wives ' postal questionnaire ) ; of the twenty-nine couples who were asked to give home interviews , six refused and six did not answer the letter . |
| 17 | You can certainly do group suggestive therapy and here we touch on another point that erm Joy reminds us of and Freud makes quite a bit on the book the parallel between being in a group and being hypnotized , because the , the , the role of the hypnotist is to take over completely |
| 18 | I 'm afraid she has a most irreverent attitude — and some of our gentlemen have quite a wide circle of acquaintances , so of course we must be able to offer complete discretion … ’ |
| 19 | Good monoskis have quite a different sidecut to normal skis — the narrowest point is the very back , and not the waist . |
| 20 | To take the barbel in the Hampshire Avon as an example , some Middle Avon fisheries contain a small population of big fish and others like the Severals have quite a number to go for . |
| 21 | Well , yes , that 's absolutely right , and I think we 've always taken it as part of our responsibilities here really that they should extend over towards students in schools as well as students here at the university , and we do of course do quite a lot , in various ways , across the science area , to contribute towards science in schools . |
| 22 | Matilda 's parents owned quite a nice house with three bedrooms upstairs , while on the ground floor there was a dining-room and a living-room and a kitchen . |
| 23 | Many of the wood carving subjects were taken from book illustrations , particularly after the invention of printing , when books illustrated with woodcuts found quite a large circulation . |
| 24 | With a sword in one hand and a pair of scales in the other , it symbolizes British justice and law — and the law has quite a lot to say about self-defence . |
| 25 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 26 | The scene caused quite a stir , and although there were threats about grants being withdrawn etc. , there was no talk of prosecution . |
| 27 | Fill players like O'Grady and Hibbit , then later Bates and Yorath played quite a few games . |
| 28 | NEW-born baby lambs caused quite a stir in Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , on their first public outing in yesterday 's sunshine . |
| 29 | The requirement of obtaining leave performs this function , and some judges discern quite a direct relationship between relaxation of standing rules and strict enforcement of the leave requirement . |
| 30 | It is useful for these trials to cover quite a wide range of classes to test the reaction of different groups of children and also to give the teacher and observers the opportunity to see how effective their use of the unit becomes with experience . |