Example sentences of "quite [art] [noun] " 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 | The crowds have not spat out his name with quite the virulence they showed for Mr Milos Jakes and Mr Miroslav Stepan , the Prague party supremo , in their last days , but there has always been an underlying , almost universal contempt . |
| 3 | It is not irrelevant that Barnaby Rudge is concerned with the Gordon Riots of 1780 , although The Warren is not consumed with quite the virulence that destroys the chateau of Monseigneur in A Tale of Two Cities ( 1859 ) during the French Revolution : |
| 4 | One trusts that its astronomers were n't quite the size of Patrick Moore or getting to work could have been problematic . |
| 5 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The village is not quite the paradise it once was . |
| 8 | ‘ Elusive ’ is n't quite the word , however . |
| 9 | Live there did not seem to be quite the word for someone whose residence there appeared so transient . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think that 's quite the word to describe my feelings — ’ |
| 11 | Charity was not sure why she suddenly felt so … uneasy was not quite the word . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | She said homeopathy had come full circle now and it was quite the in-thing to be treated by herbal remedies . |
| 15 | I bet he turns out not to have been quite the hero he makes out . ’ |
| 16 | He may not have attracted the cameras in quite the way the Princess did , but he certainly brought recognition and respectability to every company or organization whose threshold he crossed . |
| 17 | Few Americans are revered in quite the way that sports stars are . |
| 18 | ‘ But that 's not quite the way it was . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To abandon them at such a moment implies that they did not , after all , mean so much to the animal — they were not a ‘ safe haven ’ in quite the way they had pictured themselves . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that the voltage at pin-14 does not behave in quite the way in which you suggest . |
| 23 | The visit turns out to be memorable , but not in quite the way George intended . |
| 24 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 25 | Not everyone holds IBM Corp 's PS/2 product line in the highest possible regard , but few would put it quite the way Reuter did : ‘ the PS/2 Server is a faulty tolerant server system designed for Novell NetWare environments ’ it declared roundly . |
| 26 | This was closed three years ago — Peter Craine , Rabbit 's vice president for marketing and sales , explains that the firm then did n't have any national language support for its MS-DOS products ; also , Unix — Rabbit 's favoured environment — had n't taken off in quite the way the firm had expected . |
| 27 | Pornographic eroticism , I will argue , is , therefore , to be condemned , but it does not function in quite the way some feminists have argued that it does . |
| 28 | Twenty years earlier , he could not have seen it in quite the way he does , for even in Repton 's modem living room ( Fig. 7b ) the structural features of a room , together with the figures of its occupants , still dominate the furnishings ; these are sparse , and still tend to have their backs against the wall . |
| 29 | erm in quite the way that sending them a letter on headed notepaper is . |
| 30 | Quite the way I 'd planned it . |