Example sentences of "[conj] quite [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the pre-industrial societies , which provide the main field for anthropological enquiry , this kind of distinction is either non-existent or quite peripheral to the main field of the ordinary individual 's day-to-day activities . |
| 2 | were either very satisfied or quite satisfied with the quality of service that they had received . |
| 3 | What puzzles a philosopher and taxes his mind to distraction may look completely irrelevant or quite obvious to a businessman . |
| 4 | You ca n't walk anywhere here without finding something to astound you , whether it be something sad or cruel on the one hand or quite beautiful on the other . |
| 5 | Only very gradually did a small number of educated critics come to see that although quite different from the Russian and European film the Hollywood and Hollywood-inspired film had developed its own qualities and that the great mass audience for that kind of entertainment had been responding quite genuinely to positive influence . |
| 6 | Both Glyn and his boss had made that quite clear with no words needed . |
| 7 | One of these schemes is an agro-industrial project , ambitious by any standards and quite amazing in a poor country ground down by war and economic blockade . |
| 8 | The same goes for Nietzsche 's very limited work on such topics as his " Homer 's Contest " , apparently begun in 1871 and quite unrelated to the material of BT , but arising out of his earlier philological studies . |
| 9 | Most of the studies discussed so far have used laboratory tasks , often ones in which the source of arousal is artificial and quite separate from the material to be remembered . |
| 10 | He was trying to ease my mind , to make me feel it was all right and quite normal for a man to have a gun in an armpit holster in Peru . |
| 11 | Indeed , Eusebius is quite explicit and quite emphatic about the importance of monarchy : ‘ Monarchy excels all other kinds of constitution and government . |
| 12 | Her actions are unquestionably deedy ; they bear no theoretical burden , unlike Kirillov 's suicide ; they run deeper — while she is on the job — than the paper person in her , and they make a rigid , final opposing of the profane midwife and the God-seeking husband academic and quite inadequate to the novel . |
| 13 | This , it is said , is a primitive view of God , and quite indifferent from the New Testament picture , which proclaims that God is love . |
| 14 | 28–1 At a congregation meeting they resolved that , as under present circumstances the Spiritual and moral interests of the congregation and the large outlying population can not be adequately attended to while Bowmore remains a mere station of the church , seeing that when probationers and Deputies of the Church come their stay is but temporary and quite insufficient for the necessities of the place , that an effort be made to raise the contributions of the congregation to an amount which might warrant the Presbytery to recommend to the Assembly that Bowmore be made a regularly sanctioned charge . |
| 15 | This programme would have ‘ social objectives appropriate to the contemporary situation , and quite distinct from the classical European path of nation-building . |
| 16 | When you know you only have half an hour or so you can become quite absorbed and interested , and quite jealous of the limit you have set yourself . |
| 17 | For example , the use of law in litigating the illegality of nuclear war may be sensible in the USA and quite foolish in the UK ; while reinforcing legal ideologies may seem sensible in the Netherlands , it may be dangerous in West Germany . |
| 18 | Despite what Dr Goode and others have said , however , I think the law and ethics governing the situation you 've been hearing about are both understandable and quite sensitive to the needs of patients and doctors . |
| 19 | Third , lead isotope values lie in a small coherent field ( ) similar to the Dupal group and quite different from the trend for mid-ocean-ridge and ocean-island basalts . |
| 20 | And erm it was we looked at one hospital and quite clear over the years , but there was an internal leak somewhere . |
| 21 | The association between fortitude and capacity for violence is absent in the Buid concept of isug , present to a certain extent in the Tagalog concept of tapang , and quite clear in the English concept of bravery . |
| 22 | This delectable prose is no doubt clear — and quite incomprehensible to the ordinary voter . |
| 23 | There he was force-fed poppy-water , an extract of opium guaranteed to leave the drinker crippled and quite insane within the space of a few months . |
| 24 | And strange to say , it had coal fires in the winter , huge coal fires to keep it warm , or attempt to do , and most of the classrooms were only divided by portable partitions so that while we went from class to class as the two or three years went by , it really was in one long building and quite adequate for the time . |
| 25 | It is raining at the moment and it 's gon na be wet and windy but quite mild for the rest of the day . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , so it was not sort of mechanical , but quite tender with a lot of cosy conversation ? |
| 27 | But quite early in the history of the United States some very crucial decisions were made , very crucial decisions . |
| 28 | ‘ Fence No 7 is not an easy one , but quite nimble in the climb … ’ jet Provost T.4 fuselage at RAF Halton , adapted into a specially strengthened horse jump for a recent event there . |
| 29 | Apart from thinking of this sort , a large proportion of people report some odd perceptual experiences — not dreams , strictly speaking , but quite different from the ordinariness of waking consciousness . |
| 30 | this overhead-view game is hardly brilliant but quite playable in a simple way . |