Example sentences of "quite [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quite possible for the adventurers to waste a lot of time on trivia before — and maybe even instead of — finding the object of their quest . |
| 2 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 3 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
| 4 | One of the mothers said she felt quite sorry for the police officers involved and was tempted to offer them warm drinks to keep out the cold ! |
| 5 | And he was quite right about the clubs . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend is quite right about the costs . |
| 7 | My stuff is not quite right for the kiddies . |
| 8 | The result , at least in Nikol'skaia volost' , was that the few literates from the old regime were starting to occupy the best bureaucratic jobs and to run parish-pump economics and politics in ways barely supervised from above and in fact quite inimical to the aspirations of the guberniia officials . |
| 9 | Well I was after coming off and er I was quite used to the rocks you know that type of er station so . |
| 10 | Then I realized that the servants were quite used to the comings and goings of Hyde . |
| 11 | It is also quite normal for the rugs of small villages to be marketed under the name of the nearest large rug-producing town , providing of course that there are strong similarities between their rugs ; items produced in villages around the Persian city of Hamadan , for example , may be collectively referred to as Hamadans . |
| 12 | Free play of this amount is quite normal in the axles . |
| 13 | Some Night Goblins become very proficient Squig hunters and come to be quite nonchalant about the dangers involved . |
| 14 | She wrote : ’ … essential , right now are groupings of women quite free of the practices of party politics dominated by the fascism inherent in their structures and phallocratic ideology . |
| 15 | She was actually becoming quite blase about the dangers lurking on their travels . |
| 16 | And erm it was we looked at one hospital and quite clear over the years , but there was an internal leak somewhere . |
| 17 | It remains quite clear across the years , the topography absolutely plain , so precise in details of dress that I can use them to place the dream in historical time . |
| 18 | Questions about specific pictures , which could , for example , be about specific saints , can be readily answered from the standard works which abound , provided such answers treat the works as history books , and make it quite clear to the children that the stories about a ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , which are to be found in those books , are not now really believed . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , it 's quite clear from the letters which hit my desk that we are throwing away many of these opportunities — |
| 20 | ‘ But it is quite clear from the responses to the colleges that it was an excellent innovation . ’ |
| 21 | Now all is quite clear in the consultations , certainly the one we have with the , the heads , whilst that they did n't want to continue the previous policy of expanding their tradition by increasing class sizes . |
| 22 | The characteristics listed here may be quite different to the ones you believe you have . |
| 23 | I mean , they , they spell a lot of words quite different to the others . |
| 24 | The result is that the final confrontation with the evil Sangrado , the melodramatic scene of occult horror from which Margarita is rescued and the revelation of her true identity , take on a particular sharpness of surprise , a tone of active , romantic effort quite different from the tensions of Sard 's wanderings . |
| 25 | These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code . |
| 26 | Physicists envisage this in two apparently different ways : either as streams of particles known as photons ( which are quite different from the particles of which atoms are composed ) ; or as waves . |
| 27 | This shows conclusively that the egg cytoplasm could completely alter the gene activity in the transplanted nucleus , because the genes active in gut and skin cell nuclei are quite different from the genes active in early development . |
| 28 | The vegetation had a dank and wintry look to it still , quite different from the lowlands . |
| 29 | The permanent swimmers belong to four main groups : the squids ( which are cephalopods — molluscs — related to the octopuses ) ; the bony fish , most of which belong to the group known as the teleosts ; the sharks — which are quite different from the teleosts , though they are also commonly referred to as fish ; and the cetaceans , which are the whales , dolphins and porpoises and are , of course , mammals . |
| 30 | Absently she noticed how neat it all was — quite different from the days when Elise lived there . |