Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] quite [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 2 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 3 | This may not fall quite so easily into the category of a communications medium as you see it , but its relevance will be glaringly obvious later . |
| 4 | On the other hand the Ailsa Craig case established that the contra proferentem rule is not applied quite as rigorously in interpreting clauses which merely limit the defendant 's ( usually the seller 's ) liability , as it is to clauses which claim to exclude his liability . |
| 5 | But we have not done quite well enough . ’ |
| 6 | He will certainly play another club season at the Quins and , although he certainly nurtures a strong desire to play against the South Africans in November , he realises that come the new season he may not feel quite as strongly . |
| 7 | On King Street Junior ( Radio 4 , Thursday ) things were not going quite as swimmingly as the Secretary of State might wish . |
| 8 | Wayne Larkins did not begin quite so strikingly but was an undeniably happy man . |
| 9 | A rival cheetah that does n't have such big leg muscles may not run quite so fast , but it has resources to spare for making an extra lot of milk and therefore perhaps rearing another cub . |
| 10 | A tail-wheel with a rubber tyre will resist skidding sideways over tarmac , but it will not grip quite so well when it is bouncing over rough grass . |
| 11 | Nigel 's novel was not doing quite as well as he had hoped . |
| 12 | and you sort of say , do you think it would be useful if we talked about reception because that 's something y you 're not doing quite as frequently but it 's obviously , it must be difficult for you to fit in to that because you 're not doing it all the time . |
| 13 | In total contrast , hard rails release water more cleanly and consequently will tend to plane earlier at the expense of not gripping quite so well in the turns . |
| 14 | Since culture did not hammer quite so hard on Mrs Frizzell 's door , she had more time to plan parties . |
| 15 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 16 | Many may have been persuaded or encouraged not to do so by the uncertainty in the law , so I would not go quite as far as my hon. Friend in suggesting that local authorities alone are to blame . |
| 17 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 18 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 19 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 20 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 21 | Chung gains too from the fact that she is not balanced quite so closely as Perlman . |
| 22 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 23 | I still recall quite early on , telling one hobbyist that I was surprised he could fit any water in with his fish ( and the previous Editor publishing my perhaps less-than-tactful reproach ! ) |
| 24 | Therefore a fourteen-year-old teenage mother who is at school is in quite a different situation from a nineteen-year-old who may be working and married , and her pregnancy is usually viewed quite differently too . |
| 25 | An irrepressible thought surfaces — I am unlikely ever to get quite this close to female genitalia again . |
| 26 | The shelter curved well above his head so that they could both stand quite comfortably inside . |
| 27 | ‘ The balls did n't often come quite so far . |
| 28 | It now runs quite well apart from two problems on which we would like your advice . |
| 29 | During a recession , the public can not be blamed for watching pennies in the hope that pounds wo n't disappear quite so quickly , but most Britons eat to live rather than living to eat , no matter how the economy is doing . |
| 30 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |