Example sentences of "[vb infin] be quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big push would be diplomatic propaganda screwing the pound sterling on the money markets … mugging the Mother of Parliaments would 've been quite a job . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That would 've been quite a drive for you all the way to London . |
| 3 | The intention of the testator that his brother-in-law should not profit is quite clear , but there is no evidence of any more specifically juridical intention . |
| 4 | What she did n't know was quite what life on a mission station would be like or how she would adjust to it , though it does n't appear to have given her any sleepless nights . |
| 5 | I was struck with terror , since my Russian vocabulary , while exemplary on maritime matters , extended little further than ‘ cow ’ , ‘ milk ’ , and ‘ bull ’ which I did n't feel was quite adequate for the occasion . |
| 6 | The chemical transformations that can then occur are quite remarkable , making zeolites some of the most unusual catalysts known . |
| 7 | But then the travellers , too , may not have been quite as lucky as Stewart , in his old age , can sometimes suggest . |
| 8 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 9 | His non-ritualism was still , in the early 1930s , perfectly normal and there were many Anglicans who would have shared it , though perhaps not all would have been quite so dogged about it as he . |
| 10 | With the really grotesque grotesques , the authorities may not have been quite so lenient . |
| 11 | According to Walter Easey , the ALA police policy advisor , ‘ under Sir Kenneth Newman , this would have been quite impossible . |
| 12 | She must also have been quite a handful judging by Coward 's ironic telegram to a Broadway manager requesting 58 per cent of the gross for the task of restraining her from being ‘ Grock , Beatrice Lillie , Theda Bara , Mary Pickford and Bert Lahr all at once . ’ |
| 13 | To permit this method of mortgaging land to continue would have been quite contrary to the policy of the Property Acts , which is that the owner of property shall be able to convey to a purchaser a good legal title free from all equities affecting that property . |
| 14 | Jinny would have been quite all right . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Brown must have been quite brave , ’ she said . |
| 16 | They were blue eyes , which one would guess might have been quite piercingly blue when she was younger . |
| 17 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 18 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |
| 19 | From Stirling 's point of view this would have been quite satisfactory , but he smelt danger in the following proposals . |
| 20 | If it had gone with his image , Nails thought he could have been quite interested . |
| 21 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |
| 22 | Personally I should have been quite glad to get someone else 's boots . |
| 23 | He would have been quite appalled at the class of some of these ‘ friends ’ with city suits unbuttoned and slack ties askew . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure it must have been quite dreadful for you , my dear , ’ said Frau Zimmerman , apparently taking the fräulein 's last remark to refer to her recent ordeal in the Bauernmarkt . |
| 25 | The shop certainly had not received a coat of paint in a long time and , though looking decrepit , in earlier years the well proportioned double-fronted premises must have been quite smart . |
| 26 | For a purely parochial event , it must have been quite an occasion because I believe that it ran from Wednesday , through to the following Saturday . |
| 27 | That must have been quite a bible lesson . |
| 28 | It would no doubt have been quite attractive in fine weather , and the same applied to the countryside around the hotel , an imposing pile by Nightmare Abbey out of a Scotch baronial shooting lodge . |
| 29 | Whilst they are heavy , it would have been quite possible , by co-operative effort , to move them into the right position to mark ‘ the line ’ . |
| 30 | Tonight she would have been quite willing to let him do anything he wanted just as long as things would go back to being the way they had been . |