Example sentences of "quite [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you ca n't do that there is no correlation between you ca n't say that all the activists are extroverts cos are actually quite about the way they but they do like to have a go and it does n't say all the reflectors cos they 're sitting back and thinking and they 're actually quiet reflectors . |
| 2 | Now , I think you know quite about the atmosphere , do n't you ? |
| 3 | He admits that in the Eighties the card took on some people who were not quite of the calibre of its existing client portfolio . |
| 4 | Some had been shot down singly , quite near the edge of the plateau , presumably while advancing . |
| 5 | We stopped briefly at Recife ( which is quite near the equator ) and Rio de Janeiro before coming to Sao Paulo airport , but it was night time at Recife , and it was early morning with an overcast sky at Rio , so I saw little . |
| 6 | Part of the slope was in shadow , for the sun was sinking ahead of them , and Hazel , who wanted a warm , sunny spot , went on until they were quite near the lane . |
| 7 | In the fourth century BC the Greek city of Cyzicus ( quite near the Bosporus ) made peculiarly archaic-looking coins of electrum , and these seem to have been intended for financing the corn trade between the Black Sea and Greece , as we can surmise from finds of them and from inscriptions . |
| 8 | He was unmarried and lived in a superlatively untidy one-room flat quite near the lab , to which he travelled by bicycle . |
| 9 | But they pop down to London as though it 's down into town but They 're quite near the motorway so it 's useful . |
| 10 | We got a little higher on this occasion but again ran into severe icing and again we turned back in order to find less cloud and less icing , on tie third attempt we were getting quite near the Alps and we were collecting a great deal of ice . |
| 11 | This warning whetted my appetite for I used to crawl to the edge and look down at the water which was usually quite near the top as this part of the city is barely above river level . |
| 12 | that 's why we stay quite near the top . |
| 13 | She was quite near the plane now and there were quite a lot of newspaper photographers around her , but she did not stop walking . |
| 14 | It 's and it 's quite near the Brumrose steelworks which means of course there 's a lot of unemployment there ! closed . |
| 15 | Later we dined at a restaurant quite near the flat . ’ |
| 16 | Spike also said " We are of course quite near the coast " . |
| 17 | It was quite near the Bakers too , and had a nice garden with a walnut tree and plum trees . |
| 18 | This was a consistent finding in all the research reported in this thesis , it seems to reflect the fact that even simulated driving tasks are highly engaging and quite unlike the tasks psychologists usually ask their subjects to perform . |
| 19 | Anyone can see that artificial keyboard or lexigram languages can be imparted , if at all , in only the most impoverished social situations — quite unlike the nexus of warm and intimate physical bonds that probably prevailed at the dawn of language millennia ago . |
| 20 | Quite unlike the girl of the previous Saturday . |
| 21 | The capital is a sad , grimy , vice-ridden place , quite unlike the innocence and friendliness of the real Philippines , in places such as Dapitan . |
| 22 | She went up to her bedroom and there it was flooded with golden light , the clouds were rapidly drawing away , almost peeling back in the sky and , not yet quite behind the roofs , a dazzling gold was leaking all round the edges of a lilac cloud . |
| 23 | Scottish football is littered with morality tales but none of them capture the tragedy of success quite like the story of Peter Marinello . |
| 24 | A few of the students here quite like the idea of running away with a circus . |
| 25 | Serious again , he went on , ‘ A real presence sometimes , at any rate , even if not quite like the folk image . |
| 26 | Quite like the ceilings . |
| 27 | Quite like quite like the colour of it . |
| 28 | Soft and sophisticated , there 's nothing quite like the look of crisp , cool white . |
| 29 | No music in the world quite like the JACQUES LOUSSIERE PLAY BACH TRIO |
| 30 | SOMEHOW , FILMS BY the Coen Brothers are n't quite like the cinema I see every week . |