Example sentences of "quite [art] opposite [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , the work 's direction is quite the opposite of that conventionally assigned to the fertility rite . |
| 2 | Negativism ( sometimes called oppositional behaviour ) is an exaggerated form of resistance when a child becomes stubborn and ‘ contrary ’ , often doing quite the opposite of what the mother or father wishes . |
| 3 | ‘ A woman 's breast , for instance , has that heaving movement which is quite the opposite of voluptuous . ’ |
| 4 | in a manuscript of Beccaria 's own hand as well as in the first edition , Beccaria had written ‘ a terrible but perhaps necessary right ’ — that is to say , quite the opposite of ‘ a terrible and perhaps unnecessary right , ’ as found here . |
| 5 | Evacuation , in fact , revealed the essential solidarity of working-class family life — quite the opposite of what many middle-class observers maintained . |
| 6 | The girl remains witty and determined throughout the extant text , and thus quite the opposite of Margery in Dame Sirith . |
| 7 | Although the monk does not tell the wife where the hundred francs have come from , and creates potential trouble for her by telling the husband that he has paid her this sum , the wife in the Shipman 's Tale is quite the opposite of the foolish , deceived creature that Margery is in Dame Sirith . |
| 8 | In the Italian analogues the wife 's punishment is her realization that she has been tricked , and the implication that her " lover " did not consider her worth spending his own money on ; there , this is reflected by the wife 's helplessness when the trick is sprung — quite the opposite of what we have in the Shipman 's Tale . |
| 9 | He is an intellectual man but since he has married , a woman who is quite the opposite of him , the reader often notices that he retreats to his library during the course of the book . |
| 10 | Quite the opposite to the calm peacefulness that had existed in Heymouth prior to the flood . |
| 11 | I have found quite the opposite to be true . |
| 12 | Quite the opposite to what she was going to go . |
| 13 | In the overall scheme of things , however , loyalist violence has a different effect — and it is quite the opposite to what is intended . |
| 14 | It is quite the opposite with the red-necked phalarope . |
| 15 | This can hardly be compatible with the Prime Minister 's stated aim of a classless society — quite the opposite in fact . |