Example sentences of "quite [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the method is somewhat wasteful , being quite the converse of Labov 's telephone survey in this respect . |
| 2 | One trusts that its astronomers were n't quite the size of Patrick Moore or getting to work could have been problematic . |
| 3 | Live there did not seem to be quite the word for someone whose residence there appeared so transient . |
| 4 | Well , league and cup matches may not have quite the lure of England and Australia , but , as far as I can tell , clubs are doing their utmost to keep rugby 's momentum going . |
| 5 | And anyway , ’ he nodded in the direction of the dance floor where a young girl in a T-shirt and torn jeans was entwined in the arms of a dreadlocked Rastafarian , ‘ I 'm not quite the type for the regulars here . ’ |
| 6 | She said homeopathy had come full circle now and it was quite the in-thing to be treated by herbal remedies . |
| 7 | Nor were the financial departments in France and Germany in any way independent of the royal household , even though in the nature of things the royal treasury could not be carried round with the king on his travels in quite the way in which the relics were . |
| 8 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that the voltage at pin-14 does not behave in quite the way in which you suggest . |
| 9 | Even a good marriage may not be able to deliver quite the cocktail of intuition , sympathy , honesty , and insight . |
| 10 | Not quite the fog of Dickens , or even his own childhood . |
| 11 | Not quite the supremacy of the self-made man that the party liked to pretend , but a distinct shift none the less . |
| 12 | Teodor spoke of shooting ( ‘ quite the favourite of his , ’ Sophie explained ) . |
| 13 | and I mean but the quite the majority of them er put their hands up for Paddy Ashdown . |
| 14 | I do n't think it will be a problem here — quite the contrary in a way . |
| 15 | She had not quite the disdain of him that she put into what she said ; and perhaps he knew it as well as she did . |
| 16 | ‘ They have a style of programme with a very good news service but I did n't feel it was quite the vehicle for me , ’ Ewart said . |
| 17 | Perhaps gangs of older women up hills is quite the norm in the Fatherland , and if so it could do with being aped here . |
| 18 | It was n't quite the kind of flying that went on in 1940 . |
| 19 | The evidence , whether in the form of a time series or a cross-section of individuals , industries or regions , comes not from taxation directly but from hours of work supplied at different wages net of tax — which , of course , is not quite the question at hand . |
| 20 | The Trade Unions did not have quite the grip on the economy that they have today and its effects were not absolute . |
| 21 | ‘ Come in , ’ called Betty , quite the lady of the house . |
| 22 | Yet , the work 's direction is quite the opposite of that conventionally assigned to the fertility rite . |
| 23 | Negativism ( sometimes called oppositional behaviour ) is an exaggerated form of resistance when a child becomes stubborn and ‘ contrary ’ , often doing quite the opposite of what the mother or father wishes . |
| 24 | ‘ A woman 's breast , for instance , has that heaving movement which is quite the opposite of voluptuous . ’ |
| 25 | in a manuscript of Beccaria 's own hand as well as in the first edition , Beccaria had written ‘ a terrible but perhaps necessary right ’ — that is to say , quite the opposite of ‘ a terrible and perhaps unnecessary right , ’ as found here . |
| 26 | Evacuation , in fact , revealed the essential solidarity of working-class family life — quite the opposite of what many middle-class observers maintained . |
| 27 | The girl remains witty and determined throughout the extant text , and thus quite the opposite of Margery in Dame Sirith . |
| 28 | Although the monk does not tell the wife where the hundred francs have come from , and creates potential trouble for her by telling the husband that he has paid her this sum , the wife in the Shipman 's Tale is quite the opposite of the foolish , deceived creature that Margery is in Dame Sirith . |
| 29 | In the Italian analogues the wife 's punishment is her realization that she has been tricked , and the implication that her " lover " did not consider her worth spending his own money on ; there , this is reflected by the wife 's helplessness when the trick is sprung — quite the opposite of what we have in the Shipman 's Tale . |
| 30 | He is an intellectual man but since he has married , a woman who is quite the opposite of him , the reader often notices that he retreats to his library during the course of the book . |