Example sentences of "quite [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , that myth is not quite the one which appears to have penetrated everyday life , perhaps because the place of the victory is located within the borders of the Southern state . |
| 2 | They are not inaccessible but quite the reverse , and they have their original working use still . ’ |
| 3 | Quite the reverse you might say . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Not in quite the same way as me , probably . |
| 5 | Looking after other people 's children can be very rewarding indeed , but it is also hard work and a big responsibility and is not quite the same as bringing up your own children . |
| 6 | Quite the most enchanting is the leitmotif of pink ribbons being continually tied and untied until Lise and Colas are finally wed in La Fille Mal Gardée . |
| 7 | But no other bird exerts quite the appeal of the annual visitor from the river Ob . |
| 8 | Other Hong Kong businessmen may never have had quite the high-level political contacts of Mr Wu , but they too have cause for concern . |
| 9 | To a disenchanted eye , Nash seems not quite the genius he is generally thought to have been : he was a notorious jerry-builder who pillaged and cheapened classical motifs as does the builder of the modern executive home . |
| 10 | CHRIS PATTEN 'S decision is not quite the fudge that Lord Northfield , the developers ' chairman , called it yesterday . |
| 11 | In fact we will be shown extracts from Gloucester v Bath once the programme gets going : but that is not quite the same thing . |
| 12 | Not quite the godfather . |
| 13 | The activities of politicians , pop stars and policemen notwithstanding , life for most people is much the same , obviously , whatever decade it is — more or less endurable if you are young , that is , and quite the opposite if you are not . |
| 14 | ( The Labour Party , to be fair , has never observed quite the same double standards when it comes to private and public speech ) . |
| 15 | Come to think of it , neither hunger nor randiness hits quite the spot . |
| 16 | Quite the reverse . |
| 17 | Quite the reverse . |
| 18 | He will leave a huge gap in the theatrical life of Broadway ; for his friends in England , New York and the London summer can never seem quite the same again . |
| 19 | They may actually have to take risks : all the fault of Mrs Thatcher , but not because she was too interested in the entrepreneurs ; quite the contrary , because she over-egged the pudding for the house-owning classes . |
| 20 | Not an unimportant role in a place as hot as this , but not quite the one he has in mind . |
| 21 | One very important thing that I had noticed since we landed in Normandy five days ago was that no one had any problem with insomnia. quite the reverse . |
| 22 | Quite the opposite . |
| 23 | They were not quite the least well educated : in our panel , Mirror readers had slightly less professional qualifications than even Sun/Star readers , though every other paper 's readers ( and non-readers ) had much more . |
| 24 | Quite the contrary . |
| 25 | Yet , the work 's direction is quite the opposite of that conventionally assigned to the fertility rite . |
| 26 | The three major cinematic events in my life have functioned as harbingers to major changes in my own life , after which things were never quite the same . |
| 27 | Quite the contrary , maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary' ( Newton , quoted in Altman , Homosexual Oppression , 204 ; see also Genet in Leyland , Gay Sunshine Interviews ) . |
| 28 | A literal translation would be ‘ undertaker ’ , which does n't have quite the right ring ! |
| 29 | They 're very happy with manufacturing , but the selling of the product and the trading is not quite the right thing to do . |
| 30 | ‘ Elusive ’ is n't quite the word , however . |