Example sentences of "[be] quite a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's quite a lot there used to be quite a contingent worked in ships and of course it 's all stain work and just sprayed now . |
| 2 | Of course he is right that funerals are often rather gloomy , and it can be quite a bore to visit people in hospital . |
| 3 | Despite breakneck advances in information technology , it can still be quite a fight to get hold of the precise data you need , when you need it . |
| 4 | I could n't see any hospital near : it must be quite a way to walk . |
| 5 | ‘ Twins are quite a strain to bring up . |
| 6 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 7 | She must also have been quite a handful judging by Coward 's ironic telegram to a Broadway manager requesting 58 per cent of the gross for the task of restraining her from being ‘ Grock , Beatrice Lillie , Theda Bara , Mary Pickford and Bert Lahr all at once . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thomas enthused : ‘ It 's quite a feat to beat Liverpool on a normal outing , but the side we put out the other night was straight from the creche . |
| 10 | Erm There 's quite a bit to go into with that but that 's hopefully given you some idea of how electricity works . |
| 11 | It 's quite a bit to do on one day , to go and do four . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's quite a bit happening in the IT services area here . |
| 13 | Usually it 's quite a problem to know what to do with them , though they are often in demand for decorations at your local primary school , but between you and your knitting club friends there will be more than enough for everyone . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's quite a responsibility running a course like this , ’ she says . |
| 15 | There 's quite a lot to talk about is n't there ? |
| 16 | Then , it 's quite a lot to happen , is n't it ? |
| 17 | This bruiser 's called Tyson — that 's quite a lot to live up to . |
| 18 | There 's quite a lot to choose from : electric fan assisted or convector heaters , free-standing stoves , oil heaters , calor gas fires . |
| 19 | there 's quite a lot have moved out now , but erm still are some there I think . |
| 20 | People who you think It 's all melting , there 'll be more wet about but there could well be more deserts and So there 's quite a lot going on there . |
| 21 | So , it 's the range of of knowledge is quite wide , you know , from , from extricating a cat and how to do that er to , to a large modern hotel building , how to protect it from fire , so , so there 's quite a lot to learn yep . |
| 22 | And that 's quite a time consuming step . |
| 23 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |
| 24 | Surely Bentham would want to say that they should have sought their pleasure in other ways which would , in fact , have been equivalent , but it is quite a problem to say what is meant by ‘ equivalent ’ here . |
| 25 | Weeds and shrubs grow rapidly in the damp soils of the site , and it is quite a problem to keep the growth in check each summer . |
| 26 | It is quite a shock to move from this charming , if slightly aimless stuff back into the original cacophonous maelstrom . |
| 27 | The water changes from year to year and it is quite a skill knowing where the tides flow are running . |
| 28 | Carter says budget constraints mean it is quite a battle to put up the all-important 30 per cent , but he hopes to get more than the £16,870 received last year . |
| 29 | Sue Lovel , sales and marketing executive for the region , said : ‘ We anticipate that this visit will produce a lot of extra business for our region , and it is quite a coup to attract these senior managers to an area outside London . ’ |
| 30 | It is quite a lesson to find that without continuo yet with authentically detached string-style , plus ponderous accentuation , this sounds even slower than such a modern-style performer as Bernstein ( DG ) , who at a similar speed makes the melody soar . |