Example sentences of "[noun sg] was quite [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the nineteen seventies I ran a school primary team , and at that time a woman refereeing football was quite a novelty . |
| 2 | I understand the poor young lady was quite a beauty ? ’ |
| 3 | The Fawcetts had a sheep dip and we would take ours there , but the shearing was quite a problem for me . |
| 4 | That dress you were wearing last night was quite a disguise . ’ |
| 5 | Her baby 's father was quite a bit older than she , twenty-six , and wanted her to have the baby because he thought that having mumps had made him sterile . |
| 6 | With the latest range of Ford vehicles available and Brand 's Hatch drivers on hand to pass on their expertise , the morning was quite an adventure — advanced driving tuition , a skid car with four wheel steering , go karts , and road tests . |
| 7 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 8 | And life was quite a struggle for everyone , it seems . |
| 9 | These were normally taken in the scullery as the lifting of hot water by bucket from the copper was quite a performance . |
| 10 | Pig killing was quite an event in the dale and had-to take place when there was an ‘ R ’ in the month because it was wise to avoid the warmer months since refrigerators were unknown in the dale . |
| 11 | In its own way the co-operative was quite a success story if only for the fact that it had kept going more or less continuously for almost five years . |
| 12 | Stanley Baxter wondered whether choosing Michelangelo 's famous male nude , ‘ The Boy David ’ as his luxury item was quite the choice a man with Kenneth 's reputation should have made . |
| 13 | For Beeton Rumford , winning the catering contract for the Royal Windsor Horse Show was quite a coup . |
| 14 | The convention was quite a thing , it seems . ’ |
| 15 | For though Henry I had left England in a very confused state because he had only a daughter to inherit his title , Henry II 's problem was quite the reverse . |
| 16 | I imagine such harmless make-believe was quite a comfort . |
| 17 | The news about Duncan 's death was quite a shock to me . |
| 18 | Laba was quite a celebrity in the village , and from him we learnt just what it is like to be embraced by a really big snake . |
| 19 | Mrs. Burden who lived at number 70 , another two storey house was quite a character . |
| 20 | Far from being any support to her mother , Liza 's presence in the house was quite the reverse . |
| 21 | Dear old Martha had much of the milk of human kindness about her ; she had pensioners who shared with her such things as she had : one was a lame robin redbreast , who came and sat on a bush opposite the door till he was fed ; another was a pigeon whose cot was quite a mile away : she too looked for a meal on every visit , and after gathering her crop-full , would wing her flight over the fields and houses home to her cot . |
| 22 | My mother was quite an expert and I learnt from her . " |