Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] quite the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ATTEMPTING to bring order to a recent meeting of the Socialist group at the European parliament , Jean Pierre Cot managed inadvertently to produce quite the opposite effect , according to a story emanating from the mouth of David Martin , the Lothian MEP who glories in the high falutin' title of vice-president of the assembly . |
| 2 | It was just that nothing would ever seem quite the same again . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a subtle way in which we are never given quite the full authority , never quite the full credit , never quite the full respect , ’ said one woman working for a big firm . |
| 4 | Italy , France and Spain also honoured him with medals and ribbons , but in England , his native homeland , he never achieved quite the same degree of recognition . |
| 5 | He had been in and out of love , but never found quite the right girl at quite the right time to make him a wife . |
| 6 | Radcliffe-Brown , however , elegantly shows us how we can make sense of all this without invoking the tenuous spectre of an earlier ‘ matriarchal ’ stage which he points out would actually have quite the opposite influence . |
| 7 | ( The Labour Party , to be fair , has never observed quite the same double standards when it comes to private and public speech ) . |
| 8 | He will leave a huge gap in the theatrical life of Broadway ; for his friends in England , New York and the London summer can never seem quite the same again . |