Example sentences of "have quite a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm number one strength Alan erm although he does n't see to eye T eye eye to eye with er a lot of the city institutions and a lot of the shareholders erm he he does know his business erm and he has quite a strong character , very forceful and . |
| 2 | To me , the smell is not unlike fresh human ‘ BO ’ , but a bit sweeter ; it also has quite a peppery hint to it and a touch of wood smoke . |
| 3 | I 'm not really sure how I became friends with the boy , but he also has quite a good personality , + I can have a good laugh with him . |
| 4 | Should the discussion stray just once from generic to specific advice , however casually ( ‘ the Borsetshire Union has quite a good deal on offer at the moment ’ ) , investment business has been carried out . |
| 5 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 6 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 7 | Main Picture : The grand piano lends a dramatic air to the dining room which has quite a modern look with its black chairs and stark glass table . |
| 8 | It is necessary to rely on the accounts published since the embargo on absolute secrecy was lifted in 1977 , and there seems little advantage in repeating here what has been told so well already ; and , after all , this book has quite a different purpose . |
| 9 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 10 | Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation . |
| 11 | The defendant who accidentally offends a passer-by or the neighbour has quite a heavy burden to discharge , having to show that he was not negligent in acting as he did . |
| 12 | Karate has quite a high drop-out rate because of the hard work involved and the constant repetition of techniques . |
| 13 | I 'm told that Brian Summers put up some money to get the company started and now has quite a significant slice of the Supersight action . ’ |
| 14 | For its size , Penge has quite an imposing Town Hall , erected in Anerley Road , between the station and the aforementioned school , in 1879 . |
| 15 | This scale has quite an unusual sound and takes a little getting used to . |
| 16 | Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there . |
| 17 | but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 20 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
| 21 | Mr le Gros , who sang a serenade filled with double entendres to his fickle mistress in the Ballet des plaisirs , must have had quite a high voice since he was normally assigned parts notated in either alto clef ( C3 , the usual clef for the high tenor voice known as the haute-contre ) |
| 22 | It 's quite interesting that where you think you 've you 've rung say , Freda or Amber in the evening and you 've had quite a lengthy conversation in , mentally you think that |
| 23 | We had both had quite a happy day ; but as the sun began to creep round to the west and to decline , I had a feeling of unease . |
| 24 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 25 | Alan Hansen , of Ipswich Port Authority , said : ‘ We have had quite a severe downturn in our business at the West Bank terminal . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've had quite an early start and I 'm feeling pretty tired , ’ she admitted . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If you do n't you have quite a good chance of getting malaria if you 've been bitten . |