Example sentences of "is quite [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the argument of this book is that its centrality is quite otherwise than they suggest . |
| 2 | What puts Monteverdi 's Orfeo ( produced at Mantua , 1607 ) in quite a different class from the operas of Peri and Caccini or the Dafne ( 1608 ) ( again on Rinuccini 's text ) of a younger Florentine , Marco da Gagliano ( C. 1575–1642 ) , is quite simply that it is the work of an immeasurably more gifted musician . |
| 3 | And that is quite simply that I of course need to read all of these documents . |
| 4 | The position of the subject here is quite simply that he is free to do anything that is not prohibited by law but that , by reason of the doctrine of the sovereignty of Parliament , anything can be prohibited or required . |
| 5 | In my view and also , if my memory serves me correctly , in Dr Reeves ' view , this is quite simply because it doubles up as a transmitter with very sharp rise and fall times on its pulse width modulated waveform . |
| 6 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |