Example sentences of "quite [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They treated me quite naturally from the very first — and I myself felt quite at home . |
| 2 | Quite separately from the Social Work Department in Orkney , they investigated the information that led to the uplifting of the children . |
| 3 | Some of the former private enterprise managers ( notably E. H. E. Woodward on the Central Authority and Harry Randall at the London Board ) had seen from the beginning that proper decentralisation required that the Boards relate capital expenditure to revenue-earning potential in order to retain direct control of their financial viability ; and outside commentators were sometimes surprised that the Boards ' decisions on capital expenditure to meet statutory obligations were made quite separately from the revenue estimates which determined their profitability . |
| 4 | There was also a development in many schools of resource centres , sometimes quite separately from the school library , under a Head of Resources . |
| 5 | Some of the national Sunday papers include magazine sections , which are edited quite separately from the newspapers themselves . |
| 6 | The land rises quite steeply from the sea , and the roads , with the exception of the Island Highway , do not follow the contours , so there is very little flat ground . |
| 7 | He was able to live quite comfortably from the fruits of his labours but he had always wanted just a little more land . |
| 8 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 9 | It was on that occasion — in the strangely bare study of Darlington Hall — that Mr Farraday shook my hand for the first time , but by then we were hardly strangers to each other ; quite aside from the matter of the staff , my new employer in several other instances had had occasion to call upon such qualities as it may be my good fortune to possess and found them to be , I would venture , dependable . |
| 10 | However , this option , quite aside from the misgivings his lordship was bound to have as regards gossip travelling , entailed my having to rely on unknown quantities just when a mistake could prove most costly . |
| 11 | Quite aside from the inherent dangers of establishing an energy system to any significant degree reliant on highly unstable nuclear technology , the implications of the spread of nuclear power for the extension of military nuclear capability must be taken much more seriously than it has been hitherto ( SIPRI , 1979 , 1980 , 1980A ) . |
| 12 | With the average pressure hovering around 1030 mb plus for weeks on end last summer , it can be seen quite clearly from the table below that the water level in the Solent area was generally around minus 0.4m lower than predicted values . |
| 13 | She wanted to make an impression , to show Hilda quite clearly from the start how much she herself had changed , what their relationship must be now . |
| 14 | But as you can see quite clearly from the table , other things were not equal : there was a massive release of liquidity to the private sector from the repayment of public debt ( item 2 ) and an even more massive increase in bank lending ( item 3 ) , although this was to some extent offset by a large increase in the currency flow deficit ( an outflow of funds under item 4 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ But quite honestly from the way she shone in the semi-finals , Sally was always the one who was going to win the gold medal . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But quite honestly from the way she shone in the semi-finals , Sally was always the one who was going to win gold . ’ |
| 17 | Even the most honest of men find it surprisingly easy , through the film of time , to recall their own actions quite differently from the way in which objective evidence makes it clear they in fact occurred . |
| 18 | Sometimes the teacher uses a program quite differently from the way in which the designer has envisaged its being used . |
| 19 | As they walked along the streets , the eunuchs clapped their hands and made bawdy jokes , behaving quite differently from the way they did inside their Turkman Gate haveli . |
| 20 | Quite differently from the shepherd chasing nymphs convention of Marlowe 's poem , in ‘ The Garden ’ the colours of ‘ red ’ and ‘ white ’ are toppled from their usual pedestal by the green of plants and nature ’ . |
| 21 | The dispute which led the Conseil d'Etat Luxembourgeois to seek a legal opinion from the ECJ arose quite simply from the withdrawal of Mr Ramrath 's authorisation on the grounds that he no longer satisfied Luxembourg law ( ie the requirement that he have a professional establishment in Luxembourg and that he fulfil conditions of professional independence ) . |
| 22 | Andreas Tzakis , who led the transplant team , said : ‘ She is recovering quite well from the surgery . |
| 23 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 24 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 25 | Quite apart from the facts , however , his Lordship found the greatest difficulty in seeing that the claim was made out in law . |
| 26 | Quite apart from the destabilising effects of such a precedent on ( say ) Yugoslavia , and the echoes of the Anschluss and Sudetenland issues of 50 years ago , the creation of a large , united Germany would make consensus-building far more difficult inside the European Community , and reinforce the hand of the security lobby in the USSR . |
| 27 | Quite apart from the political fallout , there is the nagging worry that the economy may already be on the brink of recession . |
| 28 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 29 | Quite apart from the other benefits of club membership , inland clubs often have the only access to local water , while coastal clubs might have the best launching facilities in an area . |
| 30 | Thus the endeavour to replace as much as possible of institutional with community care is a Sisyphean labour , which encounters the maximum obstacles , financial and organisational , quite apart from the fact that the responsibility for developing community care is fragmented and isolated through residing , in large part , with local health authorities and thus falling within a different system of finance and budgeting . |