Example sentences of "see quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happens is this : it is swimming along on a near-horizontal plane when it spots a morsel of food , which it can see quite comfortably directly below it in shallow-enough water because its eyes are tilted downwards to allow for this facility . |
| 2 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 3 | During the course of my working week I must see quite a number of society magazines . |
| 4 | Edward could see quite clearly behind her shoulder , like the aura visible to spiritualists , the woman she would be in thirty years time . |
| 5 | After a moment Fenella 's eyes grew used to the dimness and she could see quite plainly into the room . |
| 6 | He could see quite clearly as he climbed the hill out of the village . |
| 7 | Making an effort she could see quite clearly , he took both her hands in his . |
| 8 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |
| 9 | ‘ On another occasion a taxi driver wanted $5 to drive me to my hotel … which we could both see quite clearly a few hundred yards away ! ’ |
| 10 | As we shall see quite shortly , cerebral development , ego-evolution and socialization are all closely related phenomena , above all in man , and in modern man no less than in his ancestors . |
| 11 | But as you can see quite clearly from the table , other things were not equal : there was a massive release of liquidity to the private sector from the repayment of public debt ( item 2 ) and an even more massive increase in bank lending ( item 3 ) , although this was to some extent offset by a large increase in the currency flow deficit ( an outflow of funds under item 4 ) . |
| 12 | Like Stefan he was highly suspicious , but he could n't see quite how Gesner could use the charity bookings in his quest for glory . |
| 13 | They were glazed with ribbed glass , you could see quite a lot of them on Chipping Field , still , er and nearly everyone who 's bought their houses have altered the doors , but a lot of people have put these wooden doors in you know |
| 14 | Just I was just gon na ask you really to maybe just a change you know the difference between day and know , maybe you can see quite a difference just er |
| 15 | Oh they were kicking up an awful fuss and I thought to myself now a cat 's tearing one to pieces , that 's the way it , what it sounded like , or two and they were , I could n't see quite out of the window but they were making a fuss on the wall by Diane 's |
| 16 | You see I think if I I 'm trying to en envisage it , if you are erm you , you live in an area and er there have been some er outbreaks of violence of , you know , a nasty nature , some people have been killed , there 's been sort of erm disruption and er and so on , I do n't know how you 'd feel , I think you may feel erm a bit concerned about this , you 'd see things breaking down and you would n't see quite where it 's going to , to lead . |
| 17 | Erm , I think it 's probably inevitable but most of the Republics will become independent , but I think the idea of them becoming independent in their present borders is very worrying indeed cos that , most of the borders are grossly irrational and becoming independent with those borders ethnic conflicts built into it , erm , and I think unless there 's some sort of er negotiations about what border these countries will have before they become inde independent , we could see quite a lot of bloodshed . |
| 18 | There was a peak of deaths , which you can see quite clearly , which occurred during this period . |
| 19 | That 's very effective if you 're dealing with factual information which is changing fairly rapidly , and I think we 'll see quite a growth of that in the next few years , but libraries are n't just stores of factual information ; they store a large number of books and articles and they need access to that too , and probably the most typical external use of a computer in libraries and in a university library , academic library , these days is to access the huge stores of information on scientific publishing . |
| 20 | That 's very effective if you 're dealing with factual information which is changing fairly rapidly , and I think we 'll see quite a growth of that in the next few years , but libraries are n't just stores of factual information , they store a large number of books and articles and they need access to that too , and probably the most typical external use of a computer in libraries in a university library , or academic library , these days is to access the huge stores of information on scientific publishing . |