Example sentences of "in quite a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see you have an address in quite a nice area . ’ |
| 2 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 3 | The Regent had led his army round to the north of Berwick , to the vicinity of Halidon Hill , about three miles north-west of the town , and between that hill and Mordington had halted , in quite a strong position , with marshy ground in front . |
| 4 | We must , therefore , use such instances empirically to help to establish what the internal linguistic norms of the community actually are , and to do this is to be accountable to the data in quite a strong sense . |
| 5 | So he 's er in quite a strong position with regards to the actual corporate governance and strategy of the company there which is . |
| 6 | So I think that er we are in quite a strong position . |
| 7 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 8 | And even in quite a wide area not perhaps the garden croquet players you would n't know about the people who play in the back garden but you know the people who play in tournaments . |
| 9 | As his later disastrous interventions in politics would make clear , he was a realist in quite a simple-minded sense , one who was concerned for public life , and believed ( like activists of the Left ) that a poet had the right and the duty to act in and upon that life quite directly ; whereas the oddly distant weariness of Eliot 's political pronouncements , even when he was most engagé as editor of True Criterion , revealed a man for whom the psychological reality of private torments took priority over any reality which announced itself as social and public . |
| 10 | The questioning technique can be used at primary level , at first in quite a simple way , but one which can be developed , through worrying at a topic , hypothesising , attacking it from different angles , throwing in a bit of extra information or another piece of evidence , and seeing the effect they had , asking further questions . |
| 11 | At this site it 's quite clear they were living in a prtly wooded area in quite a warm environment . |
| 12 | However , that does have its positive side — it gives my staff the opportunity to go to meetings and take responsibility when I 'm not there , so it can be used in quite a developmental way . |
| 13 | They all crowded close around her , and Anabelle , in quite a loud whisper , began to tell them her secret plan . |
| 14 | Pike started to sing ‘ Home on the Range ’ in quite a loud voice . |
| 15 | But you are in quite a good position now . |
| 16 | ‘ I asked Budd to telephone the police in quite a peremptory way , as I considered he should have done this before . ’ |
| 17 | Dwarfs and miniatures are becoming increasingly popular as you can grow a large , varied collection in quite a small space . |
| 18 | A power that had been delegated previously is therefore removed , usually in quite a small way , by an instruction that in such and such a case the matter is to be referred upwards . |
| 19 | Because it , in a job that ca n't be done in isolation , to complete this procedure or procedures , we may have been plural , needs er , consultation with er , certainly with Simon 's division in quite a substantial way . |
| 20 | The more sophisticated Greeks were thus made to regard man in pre-Trojan times as much the same as his distant offspring , and this tended to demythologize the Greek legends , thereby placing the past in quite a new perspective . |
| 21 | The string retainer has been screwed down a little too low , resulting in quite a severe break angle over the nut , but if I 'm talking about that as a problem , then you can see there 's really not much wrong with the rest of the LX . |
| 22 | Like many staunch , working class families , the Gedges were keen on discipline and Gedge was brought up in quite a rigid environment . |
| 23 | The orchestra is certainly very accomplished and is shown off to good advantage in quite a big bold and well-detailed recording made at St John 's , Smith Square . |
| 24 | and it was in quite a big space , I could off got in behind him and then changed if I 'd reversed in but when I saw this other chap sat in his car and then he indicated he wanted to pull out , so I let him go |
| 25 | Every evening the make-up would be wiped off with a towel resulting in quite a large laundry bill for each Girl . |
| 26 | No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time . |
| 27 | He would have preferred , I knew , to keep them at home , but Ruth , his wife , had overruled him in that , as she did in quite a few other matters . |
| 28 | This strategy is reminiscent of the poster ( visible , interestingly enough , in quite a few staffrooms and offices ) saying ‘ I 'm going to have my nervous breakdown . |
| 29 | Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to . |
| 30 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |