Example sentences of "been quite [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the face of it , there would seem to have been quite a strong case for handing over the division to the Soviet authorities along with the other formations originating form territories controlled by the Soviet Union .
2 It had been quite a good summer in some ways .
3 I think er in an effort to accommodate Mr Chairman , the members here this evening , it 's been quite a long day , the the Conservative amendment is very close to the amendment that both er myself and Mr have put in and yes we would be willing to accept that , I think we 've got the point across which the only thing missing from the Conservative amendment is the thing about the airport money .
4 But , within the decade , it seems clear that any long-term trend is outweighed by temporary fluctuations in the economy and the availability of credit ; though in the short term there has been quite a sharp increase in credit use at the close of the decade .
5 As a workhouse it was reckoned to have been quite a terrible place .
6 it 's been quite a nice day really
7 ‘ This has been quite a punishing time and some of my family have been badly hurt .
8 Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah .
9 it seems to have been quite a reasonable picture , you know , it 's quite well
10 Though she had been quite a successful model herself Arlene had never reached those giddy heights — the thought that now a pupil and protégé of hers might achieve it made her prickle with excitement .
11 And that 's all I 've got to report which has been quite a busy month .
12 Morse had never seen Mrs Marion Kemp , but from the marriage photograph that hung in the living room he realised that she must once have been quite a vivacious woman : dark , curly hair ; slim , firm figure ; and curiously impudent , puckish eyes .
13 Could not the ‘ real Jesus ’ or , as later generations were to term him , the ‘ historical Jesus ’ , conceivably have been quite a different sort of figure from the Christ who was subsequently preached and described in the terms of the Nicene Creed as God made man ?
14 There has been quite a staggering traffic of internationals into and out of New Zealand and provincial teams in recent years — and now a highway has been invitingly posted .
15 It would have been quite a sexy story if it was true — lots of money involved .
16 Just a few years ago , it was raised from 4p , so there 's been quite a big increase already .
17 And er certainly in teaching there 's been quite a big change over the last ten years in the way that people perceive retirement .
18 This would have been quite a popular route .
19 Sotheby 's told The Art Newspaper that ‘ there has been quite a large response to the Lloyd 's letter , but talks are going on with a view to possible changes in this arrangement ’ .
20 I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day .
21 The presentation had been quite an unnecessary proceeding , as she and Uncle Orrin Tunstall had agreed , seeing that she had met and known both the King and Queen since she was ten years old and had first visited England with her mama and papa .
22 This has been quite an incredible month and not just for me .
23 I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship .
24 I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts .
25 It 's , it 's a hefty tome , but , some encyclopaedias run to about you know , fifteen volumes , so it must have been quite an editorial job actually .
26 He must have been quite an enterprising businessman , my great-grandad , because he ran the butter cart in Baldersdale .
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