Example sentences of "[am/are] quite [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't need to worry , ’ he told her with a rueful smile , ‘ we 're quite adequately chaperoned . |
| 2 | No I mean , they 're not , they 're , they 're quite well behaved really , but that 's , that 's only the way you you teach them |
| 3 | It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities . |
| 4 | so they 're quite competitively priced |
| 5 | Yeah , but when the when we 're talking we 're quite often talking about people and |
| 6 | Yes , I had forgotten ; you must get someone else , and if you 're worrying about my career I 'll remind you I 'm quite well known in the fashion world and a few weeks ’ absence wo n't hurt me in the least . ’ |
| 7 | Aside from the fact that I 'm not normally given to physical violence , I 'm quite well known locally , and I did n't particularly want to be seen carrying a half-naked woman ashore — which is what you threatened me with . |
| 8 | well I 'm actually I 'd like something cottagey if at all possible but erm I 'm quite open minded at the moment erm I 'm so new to the area I 'm actually in Brookmans Park at the moment |
| 9 | ‘ If only I had a pretty voice — I 'm quite without tune , am I not ? ’ |
| 10 | The liabilities of financial institutions are quite willingly accepted as financial assets by their holders , i.e. bank depositors and insurance policy holders . |
| 11 | Not the modern , short , colourful varieties , though some of these are quite well scented , but the common tall white form . |
| 12 | There will usually be those who are quite well disposed towards the church but who are drifting . |
| 13 | None is completely lost , and many are quite well preserved ; and we can get a good idea of the overall composition of each pediment . |
| 14 | The responsibilities that we exercise through the general committee are quite well established and under the BAF arrangements they will be enshrined in the constitution as being ours by right . |
| 15 | When the cereal crop is harvested in August , the seeds are quite well established and capable of standing a light grazing in September and October . |
| 16 | Other agencies are quite heavily involved , some in the capacity of mediator or arbitrator , others representing the interests of members in a more specialised field . |
| 17 | The words are quite carefully chosen . |
| 18 | But the rotational periods are correspondingly long and for all states are quite simply related to the rotational constants of the molecules . |
| 19 | Nevertheless : If a teacher has , himself , to go down into the library with the whole class , or if you can only afford a third of a teacher to be in the library at certain times , then you are quite simply restricting the amount of work that can go on . |
| 20 | For , at one extreme , we have a description of that unique quality for which the arts , and the arts in education in particular here , are quite properly prized : namely their existence , according to Ross , as ‘ special ways of knowing ’ , in which our ideas and feelings are expressed through an engagement with ‘ sensuous forms ’ using that form of direct symbolization identified by Langer , which , by definition , relies upon non-discursive forms of communication that by their very nature defy translation into words . |
| 21 | Most of the Colleges are quite extensively engaged in activities other than teacher education , their viability would be disturbed but it would not be destroyed . |
| 22 | Paul , an architect , and Kate , his artist girlfriend , are quite improbably drawn into the world of the underclass , and almost killed . |
| 23 | Alright , so where farmers are locked into a specific rotation , and rotations are quite generally used , alright , they may not be able to erm , change their output erm , until they can change the rotation . |
| 24 | From the present findings , described later , it is clear that some theses are quite widely consulted , and the majority lead to the formal publication of research results in journals and books which , presumably , reach a wider readership . |
| 25 | This is an example of the abstract view of phonology where the way a word is represented phonemically may be significantly different from the actual sequence of sounds heard , so that the phonetic and the phonemic levels are quite widely separated . |
| 26 | Now in the bottom part of this coral , the bands are quite widely spaced and are very regular . |
| 27 | These are quite widely used in special and academic libraries , but are more likely to be consigned to wastepaper baskets in public libraries . |
| 28 | A recent report in the British Medical Journal by Dr Sue Adams from Southampton shows that stimulants , anti-depressants , tranquillizers and sedatives are quite widely used to treat children . |
| 29 | In any case some parts of the Committee structure are quite widely known about outside Government ; in these cases what is at issue therefore is a refusal to admit publicly what a lot of people know about privately . |
| 30 | Table 3.5 shows that sterling and non-sterling liabilities are quite closely matched by corresponding assets . |