Example sentences of "quite [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLeish grunted , feeling meanly triumphant that he had turned out to be right in his view that Francesca would not be able to sweep Tristram out of the hands of the New York police in quite the Napoleonic way she had assumed . |
| 2 | Sometimes he set the sessions , and they were quite the toughest bouts of training that I have ever undertaken . |
| 3 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 4 | For those few moments life seemed not to be quite the noisome beast it had become of late — the pale November sun was a warming coin in the palm , fear was forgotten , bloodshed cleansed away , losses solaced . |
| 5 | It 's not quite the first student text in the field , however , for there are already Geology and the Urban Environment and Environmental Geology , although only the latter is as comprehensive as Surficial Geology . |
| 6 | This is , yes , contact that , this is important , because it 's clearly that there is an increase , there 's some evidence of an increase of these things as a sort of little tail end thing , it would have been perfectly good story but quite the other way round . |
| 7 | In exceptional cases , schools may have been included in the project without all the usual procedures having been followed with quite the normal rigour . |
| 8 | Significantly , some of the most illuminating comments in the book would have been excised if Hughes had pursued his task with quite the systematic rigour he commends . |
| 9 | Erm , what would not quite the right shape what would that graph be ? |
| 10 | Richard knew he was related to Tory somehow , but was not sure if cousin was quite the right word . |
| 11 | ( perhaps one should say that as such a psychological statement it would express my awareness that I have the belief rather than my belief that I have the belief , since belief is not quite the right word in this context , but let us leave such qualifications to be understood . ) |
| 12 | Perhaps that 's not quite the right word … ’ |
| 13 | But at that moment the phone perversely decided to break its vow of silence and ring — if ‘ ring ’ was quite the right word for the refined sound by which it alerted her to its sleekly Design-Centred presence . |
| 14 | The next matter is this , that it is known that unfortunately the plaintiff will require an operation in due course to correct a I 'm not sure whether deformity is quite the right word , mm , mm but it is close enough of the foot . |
| 15 | But still Ms Stone has the world at her feet and her reputation remains , if untarnished is n't quite the right word , intact — the uncrowned ‘ Hottest thing in Hollywood ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think you 've got quite the right idea , Lili , ’ said my mother . |
| 17 | The disadvantage with this design is that , when the robot 's joint is loaded , it is never in quite the right position . |
| 18 | He had been in and out of love , but never found quite the right girl at quite the right time to make him a wife . |
| 19 | Her father was a rich and respected solicitor — not quite the right breeding , socially speaking , in County Westcommon , but Lalage 's charm and silly looks guaranteed her welcome in many houses to which her mother had never been invited : she and Nicandra had been " best friends " at their English school . |
| 20 | Geoffrey Wheatcroft wonders if murder strikes quite the right note |
| 21 | Vologsky kept his face grave , but the surging relief inside him made it impossible to inject quite the right note of abject apology into his voice . |
| 22 | They 're very happy with manufacturing , but the selling of the product and the trading is not quite the right thing to do . |
| 23 | " I do n't know that that would be quite the right thing to do . " |
| 24 | This was quite the right thing to do in a coffee-bar in the King 's Road . |
| 25 | Something must have told him that he 'd not said quite the right thing , for he looked at Zeinab uneasily afterwards . |
| 26 | A literal translation would be ‘ undertaker ’ , which does n't have quite the right ring ! |
| 27 | The most publicised case was when a hotel was painted pink as requested , but the California-based Disney dream builders decided it was not quite the right shade of pink . |
| 28 | He had been in and out of love , but never found quite the right girl at quite the right time to make him a wife . |
| 29 | that it 's easy and it 's never quite the right time for everybody and this is er tremendously widespread . |
| 30 | ‘ … with honour , ’ I added ( they were not , I realized , quite the right words but they were the nearest I could find in the urgency of the moment ) . |