Example sentences of "[vb infin] quite [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , placing the blocks in the centre of a large room or out on the porch , instead of in their usual corner , can stimulate quite a different type of play . |
| 2 | Nomes can fall quite a long way without being hurt , and in any case a bacon , lettuce and tomato sandwich broke his fall . |
| 3 | With home recording equipment so comparatively cheap these days ( you can buy quite a workmanlike setup for the cost of a decent guitar ) these video manuals could be just the answer to a layman 's prayer . |
| 4 | I think one of the things that is necessary is that you do need quite a strong centre within government at the moment , and , as we deal with all these complicated issues , whether they are … political or intelligence issues [ such ] as … the Falklands Isles or whether it 's something highly controversial such as nuclear power or defence or even road systems , you need a much stronger centre than we have got at the moment . |
| 5 | It 'll need quite a sizable house to take the Maxwell bed . |
| 6 | It is not possible to describe a suitable treatment for every type of window and there is no such thing as a standard window , since two identical windows located in a different position on a wall may need quite a different treatment . |
| 7 | Sadly many of them did not show quite the high standard of dress they expect of their pupils . |
| 8 | This period will of course depend upon the nature of the works being carried out and while the landlord will expect quite a long overrun period , it should be possible for the landlord and the tenant to agree a suitable long stop date . |
| 9 | As this is a disk-only game , you 'd expect quite an accomplished product with many detailed screens . |
| 10 | A six-month-old Rottweiler dog may appear quite a large dog in size , but mentally he is still very much a baby . |
| 11 | But it does sound quite a big area to me if you have n't got the land in the first place . |
| 12 | He made it sound quite an ordinary request and I did n't like to ask why . |
| 13 | But of course that can become quite a complex thing depending on how much we want to sort of use it to produce certificates and things like that . |
| 14 | Julie Barsby argues that self-evaluation by seven year-olds can become quite a sophisticated exercise . |
| 15 | People on higher incomes may use quite a wide range of credit sources , but are less likely than average to buy on mail order , much less likely to use HP , and very much more likely to use bank credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts . |
| 16 | Such arguments as these suggest that price subsidies and in-kind transfers do not possess quite the overwhelming advantage for the stimulation of consumption of goods that appeared to be evident above . |
| 17 | You can create quite a memorable set out of little more than good lighting . |
| 18 | Another factor which can have quite a major bearing on your approach is whether your video is to be edited in camera , that is recorded in the final shot order , or post-production edited into a different shot order on a copy tape . |
| 19 | Er and that is , that is one of the problems within the flats , that having got , once got into the complex you might have quite a long way to go before you actually find where you 're going . |
| 20 | Spellbound also allows multiple levels of difficulty from the relatively easy to the very difficult , and with its word editing features should have quite a long shelf life . |
| 21 | If you do n't you have quite a good chance of getting malaria if you 've been bitten . |
| 22 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 23 | If your eighth selection is a score draw you would have quite a useful dividend to come , depending , of course , upon the number of drawn games in any given week . |
| 24 | You , you 've got ta have quite a wide knowledge . |
| 25 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 26 | ( We need to bear in mind that the voices of horses differ greatly between individuals ; so a mare or foal may actually possess a deep voice , and a stallion may sometimes have quite a high voice . ) |
| 27 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 28 | A literal translation would be ‘ undertaker ’ , which does n't have quite the right ring ! |
| 29 | Erm we have er land in the sort of places which compete with Stoakesly although we do n't have quite the rural environment , except as was mentioned , at Guisborough . |
| 30 | 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 . |