Example sentences of "was quite a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite a serious problem I mean that you , you get hundreds and hundreds of people in a room to get jobs to talk about politics and he 'll start |
| 2 | It was quite a flat box with |
| 3 | It was quite a traumatic sight . |
| 4 | As soon as the people heard that he had left them money , ( especially as it was quite a worthless sum ) they sympathized with Antony . |
| 5 | It is a method that is nearly always used there days but at the time it was quite a new technique , certainly for a band like The Wedding Present . |
| 6 | It was quite a new thing er in itself er you know it 's , you , like I say , you 've implied that er there was at least some degree of unrest on the shop floor . |
| 7 | It was quite a new idea over here , you did n't do your washing at home but brought it out to these machines , and the courteous manager greeted you and put in the soap powder for you , and had the clothes all ready for you when you came back , but was n't alas , as it turned out , much of a hand at doing the accounts . |
| 8 | I , I can remember once I , I think it was Hill , or I think it was Estate , it was quite a new estate in those , in those days when I , when I was there . |
| 9 | Hence in 1985 it was quite a simple choice : the prospect of a summer working outdoors won easily . |
| 10 | Sub officer Jim Clark said : ‘ It was quite a simple job for us . |
| 11 | So it was quite a simple job and of course , as yard inspector at Street , my job was to see that the s platforms were always When one train left you had to put the other train in to get the shunters to shunt another train into the empty platform you see , for the next the next shunt and that and if a train came in from Carstairs you see , you seen that the pilot and phoned the signalman , let the pilot into number five dock . |
| 12 | But er it was quite a simple job and er I liked it , then now and again I used to walk down to the station master 's or the station inspector 's office you know , have a chat with him and and get the gen on what was for the weekend working you see . |
| 13 | He was quite a civil bloke , was n't he ? ’ |
| 14 | It would still be a scandal even if it was quite a separate scandal . ’ |
| 15 | I suppose Michael was quite a superficial person but to me he represented excitement and it was a period I had to go through . |
| 16 | There was quite a wide space between stone and stone , but Jenny felt sure that she could jump from one to the other quite easily . |
| 17 | ‘ It was quite a small group , ’ he said . |
| 18 | It was quite a small type , rarely weighing as much as 320kg , with short , thin legs , a proportionately large body , ridged backbone , big-bellied ( the Red Poll still has a good rumen capacity for digesting quantities of low-grade roughage ) , rather plain and very lean , with a thin ‘ snake ’ head , always polled , and a large baggy udder with prominent milk veins . |
| 19 | He was quite a small man , about five feet in height , poor and shabby-looking . |
| 20 | Despite the number living in what was quite a small cottage , Mrs. Burden had turned the front room into a shop selling tobacco , confectionery and small oddments . |
| 21 | In fact it was quite a small bear . |
| 22 | It was quite a small affair , but they took advantage of the occasion to burn some of their old clothes , throwing them on the fire with gleeful cries of ‘ Rubbish ’ . |
| 23 | Suppose that the origin of life was quite a probable event , but the subsequent evolution of intelligence was exceedingly improbable , demanding a huge stroke of luck . |
| 24 | It was quite a respectable place , occupied mainly by blacks , and transients , and there was the unmistakable sweet smell of marijuana in the elevator . |
| 25 | Cos it was quite a respectable position as well was n't it ? |
| 26 | Gerald was quite a frequent ‘ angel ’ , though he kept his investments very secret , and winced at Charles 's question . |
| 27 | A firefighting course at HMS Phoenix , Fareham was quite a terrifying experience — literally an ordeal by fire . |
| 28 | It seems amazing now , but that was quite a regular thing with the big houses . ’ |
| 29 | It was quite a clever move on his part . |
| 30 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |