Example sentences of "[verb] not quite [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about the way I looked did not quite fit the picture they had envisaged . |
| 2 | He had hesitated , then glanced at me with a gravity that did not quite hide the smile behind it . |
| 3 | Mick Keebles , the World Cup captain , heads the off-campus contingent , which also includes John Jenkins , a centre who briefly returned to rugby union with Waterloo on leaving Leeds Polytechnic , but decided it did not quite match the real thing . |
| 4 | As with so much of what he envisaged , the reality did not quite match the vision . |
| 5 | Two partitions of heavy wooden panelling did not quite reach the arched ceiling and the other two sides of the room were formed by the walls of the crypt itself . |
| 6 | Although they did not quite reach the same heights , Ann Welsh ( Liverpool ) and Claire Swift ( Sefton ) maintained a high standard in the under-17 race over the same distance , with the Liverpool girl taking the honours in 4–39.0 against her rival 's 4–40.4 . |
| 7 | He did not quite make the grade and said he was happy to come home after missing all last year . |
| 8 | Beside the King and the Archbishop , the Bishops of Paphos and Limassol , the several abbots , the Knights Hospitaller of the Order and the ecclesiastical officers of the Cathedral , stood a thick , black hairy fellow in a battered conical cap with a veil , below which an assortment of robes vaguely Greek and vaguely Coptic did not quite cover the stained brown habit of a Franciscan friar . |
| 9 | All the furniture in it hung from the ceiling by long mouldy ropes and did not quite touch the ground . |
| 10 | The political defeats of the 1930s ‘ shipwreck ’ the avant-garde , and furthermore , through a kind of extension ( since one assumes Anderson 's tripartite conjuncture fuelled even those Modernist forms which did not quite take the transformatory step into engaged avant-gardism ) come to determine ‘ the more general exhaustion of Modernism ’ . |
| 11 | Kenneth Clarke , who did not quite take the country by storm during the election , as predicted , has nonetheless been rewarded with one of the great offices of state : the Home Office . |
| 12 | She did not quite like the way he kept calling her by her name ; there was a humorous inflection on the three liquid syllables as though he found the name funny . |
| 13 | The egoist might raise a further objection : granted that I do indeed suffer from a sufferer 's viewpoint , I generally feel very much less from other viewpoints than from my own ; then will not the inclinations I choose in obedience to ‘ Be aware ’ tend to be self-centred , even if they do not quite fulfil the requirements of a pure philosophical egoism ? |
| 14 | ( 2.9 ) unc The laws above do not quite catch the full range of equivalences related to ALT with SKIP guards . |
| 15 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 16 | Which does not quite explain the fishermen . |
| 17 | There are moments when the performance appears to lack urgency — the opening of the finale is rather sedate , and the middle section of the Allegretto does not quite capture the ‘ will o ’ the wisp ’ character intended by the composer . |
| 18 | Cleopatra is one of the supreme creations in any opera , and if Barbara Schlick does not quite capture the full measure of the role , her singing is lovely throughout ; she is particularly touching at Cleopatra 's more vulnerable moments . |
| 19 | Development through Drama seemed to provide just this and became a set text worldwide , but as with most formulae , the recommended practice often does not quite match the philosophy . |
| 20 | While Smart 's contemporaries failed to appreciate the sublimity of his Song to David , later critics have signally failed to agree on its construction and Smart 's own note of explanation does not quite match the case . |
| 21 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 22 | For him apparently , although no moralist , the answer ‘ I enjoy it ’ does not quite settle the matter . |
| 23 | Start by increasing power until the model becomes very light on the floats but does not quite leave the ground . |
| 24 | The word ‘ departed ’ , used in the RSV and other versions , does not quite convey the sense of the Hebrew verb , which means ‘ gone into exile ’ . |
| 25 | In truth that phrase does not quite fit the Jacob/Esau narratives . |
| 26 | Patricia Hodge does not quite evoke the mixture of clown and vamp that list suggests . |
| 27 | Shostakovich himself declared that he wanted to write a ‘ happy ’ Symphony , but somehow he does not quite seem the natural choice for such a thing . |
| 28 | The fact that he 's not pin-up material like Bolton and does not quite have the same vocal dexterity as either Bolton or Richie probably has a significant bearing on his lack of success in Europe . |