Example sentences of "[be] quite a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and I 'm quite sure there 'll be quite a bit of change to many of our procedures . |
| 2 | When it came to boxing , Reg Witter paired me with a bigger boy called Charlie Featherstone , who happened to be quite a friend of mine . |
| 3 | So , depending on where you live , there may be quite a lot of help to call upon , or there may be very little . |
| 4 | There seemed to be quite a lot of turn from the end where Philippe was bowling but at my end there seemed to be no life at all . |
| 5 | Surely its relative , I mean two thousand pounds to you might be quite a lot of money , but to someone else , its , its not a big deal . |
| 6 | But after the First World War , there seemed to be quite a lot of lorries . |
| 7 | ‘ There seems to be quite a lot of room for our clothes , ’ said Penelope . |
| 8 | Er there do n't seem to be quite a lot of that any more . |
| 9 | He said it was not going to be a quiet post either , adding : ‘ Once I settle in there is going to be quite a lot of work to do . |
| 10 | So I see evaluation as a very democratic activity , which allows people perhaps to appreciate each other 's viewpoints a little more than might otherwise be the case erm and does n't pretend that people all feel the same about things , but at the same time it does n't attempt to sort of countermand the realities of the situation that , you know , each person ca n't go their own sweet way , there have to be quite a lot of collective decisions and people have to recognise where the majority opinion is , but at least they do it from a standpoint that erm where they feel their own value still has some worth and is still being recognised . |
| 11 | Certainly the Secretary of State has indicated that , so there 's going to be quite a lot of time for legislation and , and more importantly , time for discussion about the correct legislation . |
| 12 | And er the subject matter of the , the lecture is ‘ Searching the heart of humanity , to find the common bond ’ , which is of course , it 's , it 's just like my film ‘ Eternity ’ , it 's a huge , you know , it creates a huge expectation , but I 'm not afraid to step in front of people now and , and er you know , present myself and say ‘ well let's ask the big question , let's , let's go for it , so er so it should be quite a lot of fun tomorrow . |
| 13 | There must be quite a number of readers who have had Uxbridge Cottage Pie at some time — and I obviously can not tell how the 1991 version compared with earlier versions — but I can say that I enjoyed this particular dish and that the taste and texture were very good . |
| 14 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 15 | there must be quite a number of houses in this category |
| 16 | Okay well er I I figure that there must be quite a number of er extraterrestrials around around North Yorkshire and I thought it would be quite nice actually if er if there are any extraterrestrials listening at the moment they could ring in and we could have a chat . |
| 17 | There must be quite a number of members from the university who are in the chorus . |
| 18 | There are quite a range of PC shareware languages available these days . |
| 19 | Because there are quite a range of home improvements |
| 20 | There are quite a number of different types to choose from , and the lamp wattages range from 500 to 1000 watts , with a further doubling to 2000 watts for twin-lamp units . |
| 21 | The problem is that glycoproteins are notoriously difficult molecules to analyse , and there are quite a number of different types in the synaptic membranes . |
| 22 | And there are quite a number of people in Turkey who do know him , people in his own field . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The congregation tends to be a poor one and there are quite a number of coloured people living in the district . ’ |
| 24 | Despite the fact that there are quite a number of commercial packages available , much of the software is written in-house , often as a part of the research or development project in which it will be used . |
| 25 | It is true that there are quite a number of ways of making a living — flying , swimming , swinging through the trees , and so on . |
| 26 | And we actually then went down and we looked all over the place and there are quite a number of pallets that in fact are not properly stacked . |
| 27 | Now if you do walk around you 'll see that there are quite a number of pallets that you could argue are not well not well packaged on the on the pallet . |
| 28 | Now , there are quite a number of reasons for this and the good news , I think , that I bought good news again this morning is that presentations both about budgets er , and about what we do wi with the small churches is , er , could be some of our salvation . |
| 29 | I think also er , and this er , it may be that the er er URC does not want to be pushed round er , we got up er , to how many ministers this applies but I do know there are quite a number of ministers which who need their own cars a and a a at the church that pays the er , insurance , the road license and even something for the maintenance . |
| 30 | And at Sussex , there are quite a number of people doing these sorts of experiments , what , about six or eight different people doing experiments in low temperature physics ? |