Example sentences of "[prep] quite a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although no one will doubt their possibilities for elegance and robustness , sitting on a solid wood seat can test the limits of comfort after quite a short time and woven seats are little better . |
| 2 | This was news to me , although I knew Graham Fearnley , who was Jack Mason 's agent and looked after quite a big stable of European golfers . |
| 3 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 4 | This is a symptom of quite a deep property of language use . |
| 5 | indicator of of quite a rich scene and , that the |
| 6 | Now what we 've got , if you take this little point here , that means that somebody has a sort of quite a young age and quite a low income . |
| 7 | I mean do you manage to keep s sort of quite a good diet ? |
| 8 | You sort of quite a nice spot for houses really just up the top there . |
| 9 | It describes , too , the extraordinary effect of the collapse of quite a small sewer . |
| 10 | There are only six surviving species , the other two originating from South America and Australia , of quite a large family and they form the link between the fish and the early reptiles . |
| 11 | The racing was of quite a high standard . |
| 12 | FRANK SIDEBOTTOM , the man whose papier-mache head must be responsible for the loss of quite a fair amount of small coniferous growths , now has his own show . |
| 13 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 14 | And another highlight , though of quite a different kind , was in store next . |
| 15 | An insight of quite a different kind emerges from a comparison of table 6.8c with table 6.8a and b . |
| 16 | Amid the flood of new text books and monographs there occasionally appear books of quite a different character which , if of suitable quality , are a valuable supplement to the more traditional undergraduate literature . |
| 17 | Another unexpected and disturbing event , though of quite a different order , occurred one evening in 1973 when I was preparing the late night showing of 24 Hours . |
| 18 | Leaning over the glass counter of his booth , the young man in charge was deep in conversation with an elderly gentleman draped with cameras , and she was gazing into the face of quite a different person . |
| 19 | Ted 's killing is of quite a different nature . |
| 20 | Looks like quite a long meeting . |
| 21 | okay so it , yeah it looks like quite a reasonable number of people possibly |
| 22 | J : Sounds like quite a good song but the production 's weird . |
| 23 | And she goes and he goes erm sounded , sounded like a good sounded like quite a nice girl really . |
| 24 | Suddenly I was very aware of the vulnerability of my nose and front teeth , should they happen to come into contact with the granite of Porteniel 's pavements at any velocity above quite a small fraction of a metre per second . |
| 25 | He took this work seriously and developed into quite a muscular specimen . |
| 26 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 27 | This emphasis on " coherence " , rather than " cohesion " , would take the workshop into quite a different area ; an area where it would be informed by relevant stylistic work on , for example , plot structure ( Stubbs 1982 ) discourse structure ( Hoey 1989 ) and semantic-relational structure ( Crombie 1989 ) . |
| 28 | Surely we should n't allow that c to continue and surely that 's er that 's er can be made into quite a semi-formal type of that 's not on is it ? |
| 29 | ‘ Come into the kitchen , ’ she said , and led the way across a small hall and into quite a large kitchen , dominated , Millie noticed , by an oblong table under which were a number of stools . |
| 30 | And as we heard this morning Jesus told us a parable about a mustard seed , although it 's small it grows into quite a large shrub . |