Example sentences of "[adv] quite [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what he did was he wrote down quite a number of things . |
| 2 | So quite a lot of these you know do n't you . |
| 3 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
| 4 | Could you buy in quite a bit of fresh fish , say ten portions if you plan to have ten fish meals in a month , so that there is always good healthy protein food available as a base for a meal ? |
| 5 | So when when they bring the cassettes back I find it easier because you can get in quite a rush at times and you ca n't keep up with . |
| 6 | Most British people and publications I am acquainted with are quite proud of their command of the English language and engage in quite a lot of patting themselves on the back . |
| 7 | Yes , it 's just that quite right , we have n't got a fund , a major fund raising event now until July , unless anything else of , you know , smaller crops up and our two street collections we know will bring in quite a lot of money . |
| 8 | ‘ I had thought so but recently he hinted at another asset he hoped to dispose of that would bring in quite a lot of money . |
| 9 | We could throw in quite a lot of er , extra manure . |
| 10 | Right , well I work in quite a number of Community Centres across the City , and Northway Community Centre which has a bar with quite a large turnover , a lot of members , er has agreed to host this project for the week , which is promoting healthier drinking . |
| 11 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that the voltage at pin-14 does not behave in quite the way in which you suggest . |
| 12 | They set it up deliberately so that we force ourselves to do more than any three men could do , and naturally quite a lot of the time we ca n't manage it . ’ |
| 13 | Well , we feel that there 's it 's obviously quite a lot of points that are , are very good in the report , but we really feel that it 's concentrated very much on the administration of pension schemes , rather than security and I think that whilst if everything that , everyone of his recommendations had been law , I think it would have made it more difficult for Maxwell , but I do n't think it would have made in impossible for Maxwell and I think that what th what we see the problem is , is that in many ways the , the Maxwell problem was brought about by two major , major factors I think . |
| 14 | We 've put together quite a variety of articles for your pleasure/disgust/ abuse ( delete as appropriate ) . |
| 15 | At first the main change was that he began to give away quite a lot of money , mainly to Worcestershire charities . |
| 16 | We got over quite a lot of old problems . |
| 17 | Not not quite a law for the rich and law for the poor , |
| 18 | This was not quite a case of the bitten getting up and rewarding the biter because Kent exposed Hollwyood , which is not quite the British movie industry . |
| 19 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 20 | So what 's so special about an alkali that 's not quite a special about a base . |
| 21 | If there is not quite an embarrassment of riches , there is enough to make the small investor blush at the choice . |
| 22 | The Gaelic alphabet is represented by eighteen trees , beginning with A , , elm ( Ulmus ) and ending with U , , hawthorn Crataegus monogyna ) … not quite an A-to-Z of plants , for there is no Z in Gaelic . |
| 23 | It was not quite the act of immediate robbery it may sound ; rather than dispossessing local people of much-cherished common rights , it merely reinforced the long-drawn-out process of their gradual erosion . |
| 24 | The evidence , whether in the form of a time series or a cross-section of individuals , industries or regions , comes not from taxation directly but from hours of work supplied at different wages net of tax — which , of course , is not quite the question at hand . |
| 25 | She had not quite the disdain of him that she put into what she said ; and perhaps he knew it as well as she did . |
| 26 | And anyway , ’ he nodded in the direction of the dance floor where a young girl in a T-shirt and torn jeans was entwined in the arms of a dreadlocked Rastafarian , ‘ I 'm not quite the type for the regulars here . ’ |
| 27 | Not quite the fog of Dickens , or even his own childhood . |
| 28 | Not quite the supremacy of the self-made man that the party liked to pretend , but a distinct shift none the less . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's not quite the sort of husband I 'm looking for , so just as well . ’ |
| 30 | Not quite the sort of punt to take on a picnic . |