Example sentences of "quite [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a good marriage may not be able to deliver quite the cocktail of intuition , sympathy , honesty , and insight . |
| 2 | The evidence , whether in the form of a time series or a cross-section of individuals , industries or regions , comes not from taxation directly but from hours of work supplied at different wages net of tax — which , of course , is not quite the question at hand . |
| 3 | This can hardly be compatible with the Prime Minister 's stated aim of a classless society — quite the opposite in fact . |
| 4 | In fact , were Franco to see him now , he would very likely not recognise Maidstone who , sobered up , shaved , scrubbed and polished , in well-cut black suit and shining black shoes , looked quite the man about town . |
| 5 | Once again the only statistical provision is that Behrend 's formula assumes a perfectly random distribution of sites , and this is never quite the case in practice . |
| 6 | Neither William nor Charles Frederick had quite the severity of countenance which one associates with Benjamin James : William in his twenties had a pleasant and confident face , with a full mouth which he would allow to be overgrown by a drooping and slightly unkempt moustache in later years . |
| 7 | Brown says NT exhibits a superior memory management scheme and is almost but not quite the equal of Unix at its best . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , ‘ oh , Havvie , yes , ’ and if , when he kissed her , with the perfect decorum with which a well brought up young peer should treat a single girl — even one who had promised to be his wife — she did not feel quite the surge of passion which she had expected , she put that down to her inexperience , and his tentative handling of her , which would change with time , she knew . |
| 9 | Not quite the sort of punt to take on a picnic . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's not quite the sort of husband I 'm looking for , so just as well . ’ |
| 11 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 12 | ‘ It gives quite a clarity of management information if you do it yourself , ’ says BP spokesman Ian Fowler . |
| 13 | Before their marriage he had made quite a hobby of photography . |
| 14 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 15 | The Davidsons ' publicist Clifford Elson said last night : ‘ Jim 's going away for quite a while over Christmas which will give the situation a chance to defuse . |
| 16 | Do you like to know where , for quite a while in advance what you 're going to sing then ? |
| 17 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 18 | Well here 's the Director General of Fair Trading , and this is someone who 's had quite a bit of experience on this , Sir Gordon Borey and he says that motorists should ensure that any cover they buy is in the form of an individual insurance policy in their name . |
| 19 | There 's , there was quite a bit of apathy where horse secuirty is concerned . |
| 20 | But elsewhere , despite quite a bit of stodge , there has been evidence of lively and ( that old critical standby ) interesting , if not necessarily very innovative , work from a wide range of quarters . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a varied , highly satisfying climb , ’ says Walsh , ‘ with quite a bit of ice up to 55 degrees ; VS standard rock , albeit with old fixed ropes , and some tiring plodding through knee-deep powder . ’ |
| 22 | There 's quite a bit of choice when it comes to sterilising units , from state-of-the-art steamers to mini travel sets . |
| 23 | If your house is detached and secluded , then you must think about spending quite a bit of money on boundary protection — high walls and fences with added obstructions on top , such as trellis or privet . |
| 24 | Hnatiuk at the bank said he 's always had quite a good balance in his savings account — for a kid — and he 's deposited quite a bit of money recently . |
| 25 | By shopping around and comparing prices it is often possible to save quite a bit of money , but even so , dry mixes always work out more expensive than mixing your own , although they do also cut out the preliminary stages of the mixing process . |
| 26 | I cam away feeling better because I 'd saved myself quite a bit of money , and I 'd done my bit towards helping the environment . |
| 27 | Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book . |
| 28 | Quite a bit of money , then it was a lot of money . |
| 29 | But it was that 's what it that 's where er you know , there was he had been quite successful in this lawsuit you know , he 'd made quite a bit of money . |
| 30 | In the 1980s I raised quite a bit of money for Sainsbury 's charities . |