Example sentences of "[adj] [is] quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ That 's quite a leap , from orphanage to high society . |
| 32 | ‘ That 's quite a sight , ’ she murmured . |
| 33 | That 's quite a thought . |
| 34 | Mm ah well that 's quite a thought in n it ? |
| 35 | That 's quite a bargain . |
| 36 | That 's quite a lot — quite a programme of work . |
| 37 | That 's quite a lot of work for |
| 38 | Because that 's quite a lot of traffic going through there . |
| 39 | So that 's that 's quite a lot , if it 's an investigator , which of course it may not be . |
| 40 | That 's quite a lot . |
| 41 | Half an acre , that 's quite a lot . |
| 42 | That 's quite a lot for a |
| 43 | Excellent excellent excellent , cos that 's you know that 's quite a lot of maths in that and you get these sines and coses and omega T omega T and |
| 44 | This bruiser 's called Tyson — that 's quite a lot to live up to . |
| 45 | And that 's quite a time consuming step . |
| 46 | that 's quite a drop you know , because it 's quite a long way down |
| 47 | that 's quite a drop down |
| 48 | ‘ For any firm , that 's quite a catch . |
| 49 | Well , that 's quite a list . |
| 50 | That 's quite a detour . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ That 's quite a speech , and rather pompous , I thought . |
| 52 | Yeah , well that 's quite a point in n it ? |
| 53 | Well that 's quite a point actually . |
| 54 | That 's quite an advantage , you 'll be more than satisfied to discover , as you search out the last parking spot at the charity ball . |
| 55 | And that 's quite an achievement because the Gold Star award is only given to five per cent of resorts in the world . |
| 56 | That 's quite an accolade coming from an instructor who has 500 hours of P-40 time in seven of the eighteen P-40s worldwide which still fly . |
| 57 | That 's quite an idea is n't it ? |
| 58 | I think that 's quite an oversight . |
| 59 | Unfortunately in South Africa today that 's quite an assumption ! |
| 60 | There 's going to be a seventy acre community nature park eventually , so that 's quite an area to cover , but it 's not going to be all trees — it 's going to be some open glades for butterflies and so on , so there should be a nice variation there . |