Example sentences of "quite [adj] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's quite specific to the tax bracket but the source of work in Leeds has been very much from er corporate finance and from the insolvency practice , whilst that is er obviously a way forward for us in the initial stages . |
| 2 | The free style mining had brought about a situation quite undesirable to the Lord who claimed the mineral rights . |
| 3 | It never seems quite right to the person being talked about . |
| 4 | Lévi-Strauss ' attack , together with Sartre 's own theoretical difficulties which have already been charted , was effective enough to be quite devastating to the project of the Critique — which was never completed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well I was after coming off and er I was quite used to the rocks you know that type of er station so . |
| 7 | Then I realized that the servants were quite used to the comings and goings of Hyde . |
| 8 | Some sports jackets and denim suits are quite smart and these would be quite acceptable to the group of companies . |
| 9 | ‘ But I shall be making it quite clear to the Government that we should not lose out in Scotland as a consequence of the possibility that only one Objective 1 area could be added from the UK . ’ |
| 10 | I made my displeasure on that score quite clear to the ecclesiarch 's agent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , punishment must be appropriate , immediate , and the reasons for it quite clear to the horse . |
| 13 | The characteristics listed here may be quite different to the ones you believe you have . |
| 14 | I have tried it on some plain laces and , as with the No. 2 switch , the effect is not simple due to the structure of lace — the resulting fabric is quite different to the original . |
| 15 | Colleague contracts , such as most friendships , involve an exchange of similar kinds of things whereas , in the patron-client relationship , the different status is reflected in the fact that the patron offers something quite different to the relationship from the contribution of the client . |
| 16 | I mean , they , they spell a lot of words quite different to the others . |
| 17 | ‘ People are seizing us because we 're able to write good songs in a stylistic vein that 's quite different to the way songs have been written recently in contemporary music . |
| 18 | Hrun going about the business of being a hero , he realised , was quite different to the wine-bibbing , carousing Hrun who occasionally came to Ankh-Morpork . |
| 19 | The excitement of the exhibition concerns the opportunity to place many works around the park 's lake where they will create an impression quite different to the context of brutal architecture of the Hayward Gallery , or of the European Patent Office in Munich and of other cities for which King has made commissions in recent years . |
| 20 | What is not always made clear , however , is that the February agreement was economically quite favourable to the USSR . |
| 21 | He still ignored Therese offstage , but was — surprisingly — quite civil to the rest of the company . |
| 22 | I have the opportunity to buy a used Aero Winch Ltd , capstan winch , outwardly quite similar to the Fairey unit . |
| 23 | What made Imamu an outsider in Brooklyn is quite similar to the reason Boo is an outsider in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ , he did not conform with his new community 's social behaviour . |
| 24 | that talk about the company of which I 'm chairman is that there is a personnel and compensation committee which in the absence of a chief executive sets the chief executive 's remuneration and with the presence of the chief executive , although he 's not , I 'm not a member of that committee we work on the other senior executives of the company , it 's quite similar to the process used here in your company . |
| 25 | Dorothea 's distress at her distance from that other nation is thus in advance of her time , but the absence of scenes in Middlemarch showing her within the houses of the poor is quite appropriate to the period in which it is set . |
| 26 | The very intensity of their land-hunger , however , forced up the cost of both renting and buying land to levels which were quite unrelated to the land 's yield . |
| 27 | The attendant females are known as aunties , though nannies might be a better term , for although these birds are successful breeders , they may be quite unrelated to the majority of their charges . |
| 28 | Yet in most countries there is continuing concern about the number of patients who develop a hospital-acquired infection quite unrelated to the reason for their admission ; about the accidents which happen to patients while they are in hospital ; about the perennial danger of fire in hospitals ; and about the dangers associated with the use of prescribed drugs in hospital . |
| 29 | The graphs we are concerned with are quite unrelated to the sort which physicists and engineers draw on graph paper . |
| 30 | The same goes for Nietzsche 's very limited work on such topics as his " Homer 's Contest " , apparently begun in 1871 and quite unrelated to the material of BT , but arising out of his earlier philological studies . |