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 | 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 . |
| 15 | but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ) |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 23 | Alan Hansen , of Ipswich Port Authority , said : ‘ We have had quite a severe downturn in our business at the West Bank terminal . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If you do n't you have quite a good chance of getting malaria if you 've been bitten . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You , you 've got ta have quite a wide knowledge . |