Example sentences of "been quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then the travellers , too , may not have been quite as lucky as Stewart , in his old age , can sometimes suggest . |
| 2 | Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey . |
| 3 | When a blow-over does occur , you will always hear the people concerned state , quite truthfully : ‘ Up to that time the wind had been quite acceptable and then there was this bad gust … |
| 4 | I had been quite looking forward to sampling its unsavoury delights . |
| 5 | Seldom has Philippe Chatrier , a man renowned for his forthright views , especially whenever he has felt the advancement or the image of tennis was at risk , been quite so outspokenly blunt , as in his final Presidential newsletter he issued before ending his 14 year reign in charge ( which & referred to in last month 's column ) at The International Tennis Federation . |
| 6 | But the way it 's moved on has been quite good . |
| 7 | Dr Clare does not address any of these problems directly , but tells us a lot about his childhood , which seems to have been quite nice , unless he is trying to hide something shameful . |
| 8 | It has been quite common in London for nearly 10 years . |
| 9 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 10 | His non-ritualism was still , in the early 1930s , perfectly normal and there were many Anglicans who would have shared it , though perhaps not all would have been quite so dogged about it as he . |
| 11 | With the really grotesque grotesques , the authorities may not have been quite so lenient . |
| 12 | Then , he had been quite amused and content to joke about being nothing more than a flower bearer , but he was not so happy when it became a regular occurrence . |
| 13 | According to Walter Easey , the ALA police policy advisor , ‘ under Sir Kenneth Newman , this would have been quite impossible . |
| 14 | She must also have been quite a handful judging by Coward 's ironic telegram to a Broadway manager requesting 58 per cent of the gross for the task of restraining her from being ‘ Grock , Beatrice Lillie , Theda Bara , Mary Pickford and Bert Lahr all at once . ’ |
| 15 | The pound 's fall from grace has not been quite as marked as the stock market 's recovery but , for all the Government 's protestations about the need for a firm exchange rate , its decline has been very sharp . |
| 16 | It is a fickle , too-short season and for much of this century the Soviet Union 's granaries have never been quite full enough for domestic and political comfort . |
| 17 | He wondered whether she had always been quite so uncaring of her appearance or whether it had been grief and rage at Uncle Bill 's defection that had started this off . |
| 18 | To permit this method of mortgaging land to continue would have been quite contrary to the policy of the Property Acts , which is that the owner of property shall be able to convey to a purchaser a good legal title free from all equities affecting that property . |
| 19 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 20 | He had been quite good at drawing when he was at school . |
| 21 | Jinny would have been quite all right . |
| 22 | Jinny remembered it clearly because it had been quite different from all the solemn newspaper cuttings Keith had shown her , and she had stopped to make fun of one or two of Harriet Shakespeare 's more nauseating remarks . |
| 23 | ‘ Mr Brown must have been quite brave , ’ she said . |
| 24 | They were blue eyes , which one would guess might have been quite piercingly blue when she was younger . |
| 25 | It had been quite a good summer in some ways . |
| 26 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
| 27 | John Gerard grew them both , but their fates have been quite different and may well change again , with the weather . |
| 28 | They had been quite close . |
| 29 | Her own intense excitement had given way to a hollow feeling in her stomach and she had been quite unable to eat for several days . |
| 30 | Modern art has been quite self-conscious in its exploration of psycho-physical data and its use of dramatic purpose . |