Example sentences of "[prep] quite [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is well established that objects are perceived to have the same colour despite quite extensive variations in the colour of the light with which they are illuminated and hence the wavelength of the light they reflect back to the retina . |
| 2 | The bias in the contributions is towards quite strong views of equity if not egalitarianism , but different income inequality ideologies exist . |
| 3 | This is one of the reasons why the addition of quite small amounts of the wrong impurity can ruin an alloy . |
| 4 | Oh I should think it erm melts out the marrow and does all sorts of quite good things for it . |
| 5 | There are a number of quite reasonable exceptions to the " open justice " principle , settled by Parliament after sometimes anxious debate . |
| 6 | How to please everybody remains a central motif in many women 's lives and the source of quite powerful feelings of oppression . |
| 7 | We can extend this kind of approach to make a complete analysis of the vibrations of quite complex molecules by making use of local symmetry to factorize the modes . |
| 8 | An early version of the alternative doctrine polygeny , according to which the global category consists of a set of quite separate races of quite distinct historical origin and wholly different psychological attributes was advanced by Paracelsus in 1520 , but of much greater significance for the history of anthropology is the fact that , during a critical period between 1 850 and 1 870 , polygeny was the dominant orthodoxy in scientific circles throughout Europe and America . |
| 9 | Some of the main issues arising here can be illustrated further from the course taken by the historical study of Jesus through the century , and from the rise towards its close of quite new approaches to the study of the history of religions in general . |
| 10 | Having rejected the blurring of quite distinct phases in socio-economic history Bukharin then said : |
| 11 | In the material analysed in this chapter there are occasions when interpretation calls for attention to the clues given by specific words ( as in examples c.2 , c.3 , and h.3 ) , to unusual syntax ( as in examples c.1 and g.1 ) , to unstated shifts that have to be inferred ( as in category h ) , and to a variety of quite subtle clues to the sources of speech and thought . |
| 12 | A whole series of quite spectacular pieces of supposedly Dark Age jewellery and belt fittings , including the well-known Lombard Treasure , appeared on the art market at the beginning of this century ( fig. 8.4 ) . |
| 13 | For example , in several cases in the present text , the object has been shown to be expressive of quite autonomous elements of the dimensions analysed , as function beyond efficiency , image of manufacture beyond actual construction , pure individuality , coherent style and so forth . |
| 14 | ‘ Traditional climatic geomorphology as represented by most of the papers in this volume has to a large extent glossed over this paucity of knowledge of fundamentals ; it may be said to have proceeded , like Davis 's work , to premature generalization on the basis of quite vague ideas on the underlying process relations . |
| 15 | the preparation of quite large amounts of text ( letters , job descriptions , contracts ) with a considerable amount of repetition of common material ; 2. the creation and maintenance of files containing a mass of details about people and their subsequent analysis to provide information in a wide variety of forms for many different purposes Both these activities can be considerably simplified and streamlined using computers Word processing systems are eminently suited to the first . |
| 16 | Distinguished specialists in international law have reached a number of quite different conclusions about the legality of the use and possession of nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | The revolt itself has taken many forms , and issued in a variety of quite different conceptions of what philosophy itself is about . |
| 18 | From these figures , it is possible to arrive at a number of quite different versions of what changes took place in the years in question . |
| 19 | Even those built on the initiative of a prince or a king were often sited with quite other ends in view . |
| 20 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 21 | My advice was sought on several occasions when the family did not know how to cope with quite serious problems concerning the behaviour of one of them . |
| 22 | These groups have transformed the process of policy-making from rather closed networks of autonomous groups composed of members of the legislature , the executive and groups associated with the iron triangle' imagery ( referring to a stable set of relationships between a small number of powerful groups , federal agencies and Congressional committees ) to a fluid set of issue networks ' , in which ‘ a large number of participants with quite variable degrees of mutual commitment … move in and out of the networks constantly ’ . |
| 23 | Yes , I was there erm and saw them working , and I think you were looking fairly amazed that the answer came out to be almost the correct answer on several occasions , with quite different bits of apparatus . |
| 24 | Different groups , using slightly different recording techniques , can end up with quite different descriptions of the response properties of the cells in the same region because they are , in fact , recording from different cell populations ( O'Keefe and Conway 1978 ; Olds , Disterhoft , Segal , Kornblith , and Hirsh 1972 ; Stryker and Sherk 1975 ) . |
| 25 | The 1918 constitution rebuilt the party machine , creating a centralised , national body out of a loose federation of affiliated organisations , so laying the foundation for an effective election machine , while its political commitment was enshrined in Labour and the new social order , a manifesto that was sufficiently ambiguous to attract people with quite different conceptions of the role of the party in heralding socialism , and yet seemed to many to offer a new beginning . |
| 26 | What we have shown in this section is that the contextual features suggested by Hymes , supplemented with the index of co-ordinates proposed by Lewis ( put forward , remember , with quite different purposes in mind ) do enable us to give a partial account of what the undifferentiated term ‘ context ’ may mean . |
| 27 | Two comparisons are central here , the first being those incongruous occasions , of which the book is full , when characters that he has previously encountered in quite disparate walks of life , happen to meet . |
| 28 | In his very helpful and full submissions Mr. Lester has pointed out that there is no evidence of practical difficulties in the jurisdictions where relaxations of this kind have already been allowed , but I do not consider that , full as these researches have been , they justify the view that no substantial increase resulted in the cost of litigation as a result of these relaxations , and , in any event , the Parliamentary processes in these jurisdictions are different in quite material respects from those in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | Miss Cox said : ‘ There were quite fit and well , and were in quite good spirits on the flight , where a lot of family reunions took place . ’ |
| 30 | In other words , although they suppress the aberrant antibody , they suppress other antibody production too and also the production of blood cells , yet they seem to have a greater effect on the abnormal antibody than they do on normal ones and in quite large numbers of patients that have been treated in this way the side effects are really relatively slight . |