Example sentences of "[adv] quite [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proteins , lipids ( fats ) and carbohydrates are all broken down quite easily and absorbed . |
| 2 | From what I remember , we went down quite well and it was the beginning of quite an interesting career for the young Mr Jones . ’ |
| 3 | Although the haze had restricted visibility forward Spencer recalls that he could see down quite well and everything seemed to be going smoothly for a controlled emergency landing . |
| 4 | The fluctuations in Scottish support for political nationalism would suggest that the sense of Scottish identity , separateness from the English and resentment against England , has bounced up and down quite unsystematically since the last war . |
| 5 | It is only quite lately and now that we are able regularly to get strengths which are a large fraction of the theoretical value , that it has become really important and worthwhile to make materials with very strong chemical bonds . |
| 6 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 7 | Yes I 'm I 'm not quite sure the regulations are about subsids We , I mean we , it 's only quite recently that we have had a subsidiary , erm , last two or three years , we 've , for many years we did n't have one . |
| 8 | A few governments have done so quite openly and unpretentiously , by establishing laws of censorship as in Ethiopia , Niger and Cameroon : military regimes have generally had no qualms about controlling the press . |
| 9 | Ah I did win s it was before , before Tasha and John got married it was er one of these catalogues that came through you see anyway I sent the thing back and I got the catalogue and they wanted some things out and you get twenty five pounds off whatever you ordered , the first order , so quite alright but I did win something out of that draw twenty five P |
| 10 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 11 | Er one of the members of staff of the Leiston Grammar School , a chap named Johnny erm , was in charge of his trainees and erm there again erm Arthur and our section became responsible for erm all this in-service training for er , er women mainly because the men of course had joined up and erm the used to come in quite often and er he got , used to get so upset because he could n't erm , he got at cross purposes with some of these ladies |
| 12 | Oh I see , yes , yes , I , huh , yes I would do , I , I , I would say in quite definitely that these words are inspired by such a such artist and , make it quite clear that I 'm a writer and not a , I , I , I do n't study art or I just do n't understand science and painting and , and its my responses to that , yes . |
| 13 | Most of them can be put together quite cheaply but without ruining the style or atmosphere of the room ; on the contrary it 's often these that add most of the character to a room and reflect your personality better than the bought pieces which can look like everyone else 's . |
| 14 | The air was thick with cigarette and cigar smoke ; a number of the twelve men seated there puffed away quite happily while they talked . |
| 15 | All from little deals that pass away quite quietly unless we can bring it to the attention of the public . |
| 16 | ‘ You know we 're always glad to see you , ’ she said , not quite insincerely for he was a source of amusement in many ways and quite willing to take Sunday duties when Mark was on holiday . |
| 17 | But it will happen … not quite yet but at the point where he will no longer hinder me with the pretence that he would have me stay . |
| 18 | This is , as it were , an extract from a big wall painting ; and while fig. 108 gives us a whole composition , this brings us much nearer to the colour effect , though not quite there since the vase-painter is limited to clay-based colours which will withstand firing . |
| 19 | Keith Richardson says it the game showed a lot of encouragement for the cherry and whites … if anything Gloucester had the edge … and with a little more luck it could have gone their way … confidence is not quite there and Gloucester have to turn their pressure into points … |
| 20 | That was something to cheer Christmas 1945 , but not quite enough and in the new year I was back again , once more taking the No. 2 bus from Summertown to Carfax . |
| 21 | Tate , so devoted to Eliot 's precedent , appears to have dismissed as amiably perfunctory the respect that Eliot , not quite consistently but repeatedly , accorded to Pound 's prose-writings and Pound 's literary opinions ; and — so it might be argued , though this is not the place for it — Tate 's own verse , and the verse of those he influenced , were the worse for having taken note of Eliot 's precedent without attending equally to Pound 's . |
| 22 | And he told me , well quite soon quite soon after she came along . |
| 23 | He could usually get through quite easily until after lunch . |
| 24 | ‘ We started off quite well but then showed a lack of imagination , which is unusual . |
| 25 | The boys started off quite well and used their height to their advantage ( with the obvious exception of Sean Parker ) and finished the first half eight goals to their credit and in the lead . |
| 26 | She did n't know whether the loose wheel would come off quite soon or stay on for some miles , but she realised that sooner or later the wheel would break loose and that if Daddy or the A.A. man did n't reach her before that happened Miss Clinton would be likely to crash . |
| 27 | These pillars here in the gallery are kind of working also quite minimally as trees in the gallery , so it sets up a nice atmosphere . |
| 28 | Even with the edge dulled , the finish on the harder parts was still quite clean but the softer wood tore up quite badly and in places just fell away . |
| 29 | 12.55:THIS race has cut up quite badly and it will be a major surprise if LORD RELIC does not collect . |
| 30 | The floods were clearing up quite quickly but they were still the centre of attention on the news . |