Example sentences of "[pron] be quite a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I guess it is probably a bad thing , but I am quite a flirty person . |
| 2 | ‘ You may not think it , but I am quite a busy man . |
| 3 | I 'm quite a lazy person so I ignored them . |
| 4 | Right , I , I 'm quite a small building , erm , I got scary stuff in me . |
| 5 | ‘ As I say , I 'm quite a private person , but if that 's OK with everyone else I suppose … |
| 6 | I 'm quite a logical person , you know . |
| 7 | ‘ You did hit him in the stomach — and that briefcase of yours is quite a solid design , after all . |
| 8 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 9 | I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm |
| 10 | ‘ I was quite a young man , ’ said Lester , ‘ and Melvin Frank was quite experienced and assumed that I would act as a kind of surrogate director . |
| 11 | In fact I was quite a busy little bee last night . |
| 12 | Jumpers and frocks which are quite a good fit , |
| 13 | Jumpers and frocks which were quite a good fit . |
| 14 | there 's fifty square metres which is quite a reasonable size for an apartment |
| 15 | which is quite a nice surprise ! |
| 16 | ‘ A station like Darlington , which is quite a substantial building with a big overall roof , is a very difficult one to continue to maintain . |
| 17 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 18 | The minutes of the last meeting , the twentieth , the nineteenth of October , which is quite a long time ago , did anyone have any particular comments ? |
| 19 | Er mainly the proposal and then everybody came back on the sixth which is quite a long break in Christmas but we do need that break till we organize ourselves after Christmas |
| 20 | Which is quite a long time . |
| 21 | What we 've done , is we 've set up an answer phone to pick up these calls after 13 seconds , after 13 rings sorry , about 30 seconds , which is quite a long time . |
| 22 | We fill 60% of all vacancies , which is quite a good conversion rate , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The er , to revert to my American constitutional analogy , which is quite a good one actually , if , if the Congress represents the id and the President represents the ego , then the superego is represented by the Supreme Court . |
| 24 | I mean , considering there are only about five hundred people in there were just on forty people present in the room which is quite a good average or percentage of them and er a lot of the questions were quite positive and the Chairman sort of took them , there were one or two people there who obviously erm wanted to have everything either exactly as it was or whatever , but it looked very much from the conversation that I had with the ramblers afterwards that in large part this scheme could be accepted . |
| 25 | which is again , er I dun , one of the guys at work , another guy at work come which is quite a , well it 's near Guildford , Primchet , which is quite a good quite a good |
| 26 | Which is quite a fast developing and growing area at the moment . |
| 27 | What she said she did with her tutors at crisis times was not deliberately engineer tears , which is quite a difficult thing to do , but not hold them back . |
| 28 | More probable is a trade sale to existing mining companies or back to the generating companies , which is quite a common practice in the rest of the world . |
| 29 | Well , what we 've just started to do thanks to some of the people up at Templar Square , in Cowley , is to have a vegetable stall on Thursdays in Cowley Centre , which is quite a big step . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ They improved their yield from forage which went up by 7.1pc which is quite a hefty increase , equivalent to about another 170 litres per cow , per year , from forage . ’ |