Example sentences of "quite [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forces , being a smallish town and by no means a city , the passing of street pleasantries is not quite the folk art it is in villages but people still enjoy passing the time of day with their neighbours . |
| 2 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |
| 3 | I 'm quite the armchair feminist ! |
| 4 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
| 5 | 'Right , I 'll help you — you 're having an affair with a man' — I said no ; ‘ you 're having an affair with the lollipop lady ’ — nearly there ; ‘ you 're going to prison for something or other ’ — no ; ‘ you 're having an affair with the lollipop lady ’ — well not quite the lollipop lady but a lady all the same . |
| 6 | The knowing use of the conventions of the detective story to write something that is not quite a detective story not only follows a rather well-established practice in post-war Italian writing , of which the novels of Gadda and Sciascia are the best-known examples ( cf. |
| 7 | Oh quite a while love . |
| 8 | Because it 's quite a bit window . |
| 9 | Okay so let's see , okay things that I bought , right how much and now we need quite a bit sort of across there if we can , if we can get it . |
| 10 | That 's quite a bicycle ride . |
| 11 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 12 | there 'd be a not quite a specialist application to Carniki , Carniki will be linked to UFAF |
| 13 | Quite a fairy tale . |
| 14 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |
| 15 | is very clever to have got his weight down , and an 11-mile orienteering course at Silverdale must have been quite a testing expedition . |
| 16 | Well it 's been quite a year overall , has n't it ? |
| 17 | So i is i it is quite a leftist movement in , in , in that it is , it is calling for radicalization , calling for recognizing the need for mass mobilization ? |
| 18 | If he was normally quite a kind person who 'd taken up robbing banks because he was short of cash they could put jam on his bread and vodka in his water , and if he was a horror they could empty the potato peelings over him whenever they felt like it . ’ |
| 19 | Blenning Bombers , er were these Bostons and Harvards they er quite a twin engine quite a wide wingspan and quite heavy for what they were , but as they were stripped down in , in the top hanger , and like I say a lot of stuff was salvaged from them , which was still good as they went out reconditioned at the other end . |
| 20 | Now , after quite a shore period , the locomotive has been steamed for the first time and is almost in working order . |
| 21 | ‘ That was quite a telephone bill , ’ I said as we moved off . |
| 22 | This particular company , with the unusual name of Garth Enterprises , had been quite a glamour stock over the past eighteen months or so , and had a mixture of interests in restaurants , pubs , snooker halls , and property . |
| 23 | Less guitars but more — which is quite a Zen thing really ! ’ ) |
| 24 | It was not quite a desert Maginot line , but a solid enough substitute , with the artillery component sometimes consisting of battle tanks sitting hull-down in specially excavated ‘ scrapes ’ . |
| 25 | It is not quite a handicap system either but the point is that some sufferers can , for instance , swim better than others and may therefore go up a classification . |
| 26 | Quite a circus turn … . |
| 27 | In its own way the co-operative was quite a success story if only for the fact that it had kept going more or less continuously for almost five years . |
| 28 | Part of it as far as I could see was in India that i India India 's actually got it 's quite a success story for development in a lot of ways . |
| 29 | Quite a reception committee , eh ? |
| 30 | Jenkins did quite a delivery trade , the goods being taken out by Mr. Bevis on a very old ‘ errand boy 's ’ bike with a wicker basket at the front . |