Example sentences of "[adj] [is] quite a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is quite a story you 've uncovered , my boy ! |
| 2 | Is it possible , this is quite a bit of work we 're just about to enter into , which we may have to repeat . |
| 3 | This is quite a feat , for not even when a lunch is offered do my parliamentary colleagues turn up in droves for a morning seminar . |
| 4 | This is quite a scandal . |
| 5 | This is quite a battery of questions . |
| 6 | This is quite a lot to achieve with a single process . |
| 7 | This is quite a novelty for me . |
| 8 | This is quite an insult . |
| 9 | This is quite an achievement in view of the size and the regional diversity of a country such as the United States . |
| 10 | This is quite an advance on his initial assumption that poor Julian Darcy , the Rasputin of Bridport , economic theorist and prisoner of his nation 's conscience , victim of its guilt , indolence and fear , is the motivating force behind Darcy 's Utopia . |
| 11 | This is quite an argument against thinking that you can dispose of Saddam Hussein by bombing his country back into the stone age , is n't it ? |
| 12 | ‘ Twenty-five thousand is quite a lot of money , ’ he pointed out . |
| 13 | That is quite a transformation . |
| 14 | and that is quite a thing , ha |
| 15 | That is quite a lot ; but why be more ambitious and say that it makes the place of mind in Nature more intelligible to us ? |
| 16 | All I reckon we can do is be grateful for the good service , as you say Tim , and get on with what 's left — and that is quite a lot . |
| 17 | Which does n't sound a lot from , er such a rural county , erm , but I mean , you know , obviously erm that is quite a lot , in terms because you are the people that are having to pay for it . |
| 18 | That is quite a claim ! |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman produced a more entertaining account than life itself — and given that life has been fairly entertaining over the past year , that is quite an achievement . |
| 20 | That is quite an assignment for any historian in under 500 pages , and it is not Sir Ian 's fault if the reader often feels short-changed by being obliged to travel through so large a landscape guided always by the same question : what was the role of ‘ popular violence ’ in all this ? |
| 21 | Now that is quite an implication when you think about it ! |
| 22 | That is quite an endorsement . |
| 23 | That 's erm , that 's quite a while ago actually . |
| 24 | That 's quite a coincidence . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's quite a story . |
| 26 | With average salaries currently at the £12–14,000 mark that 's quite a shortfall to make up if you want to be a working composer . |
| 27 | That 's quite a bicycle ride . |
| 28 | And that 's quite a bit of saving cos |
| 29 | pence well that 's quite a bit . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's quite a chunk of my life spent in darkness , ’ he says . |