Example sentences of "'s [not/n't] quite [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounds like a meteoric rise , but Dermot says : ‘ We 've all paid our dues in other bands so it 's not quite as spectacular as it looks . ’ |
| 2 | " It 's not quite as easy as that , Duclos , " replied the recruiter testily . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not quite as easy as that , ’ she said , her voice so full of sympathy that Dana looked up in alarm . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not quite as simple as that . |
| 5 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 6 | It 's not quite as good as the bonking ladybirds that preceded it , but every single ad in the campaign so far has been a gem . |
| 7 | Erm again , it 's not quite as sharp as I would like to see it , it 's a little bit er unsharp . |
| 8 | It 's not quite as effective as walking on water , but it comes close . |
| 9 | That sounds simple , but it 's not quite as straightforward as you might think . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not quite as black as it seems , Mr Nadirpur . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not quite as romantic as you might image ’ , he explains . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not quite as romantic as you might imagine , ’ he explains . |
| 13 | It 's not quite as cold and empty as |
| 14 | It 's not quite as crisp as it ought to be . |
| 15 | And some people think that this matters : that when it 's wrong to mislead people — which it usually , if not always , is — then it 's not quite as bad if you can manage to do it without actually saying anything you believe to be false . |
| 16 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 17 | I have n't , mine 's not quite as bad as that but er he was wrong I think . |
| 18 | Up there she 's got no disrespect , somebody who 's not quite as bright as they might be er and she 's not working overtime as they would do here if they got behind , they 're working half eight to half four is it Ray ? |
| 19 | It 's not quite as thick as it was the other day when it was just er constant , whereas this really went in patches . |
| 20 | Er , you may be glad to know , or unhappy to know , that I 'm actually still on contact with the health service because I 'm a non-executive director of the Royal London Trust , which works of course , in Whitechapel , one of the poorer areas of London , and it 's not quite so glamorous as Guys , but actually it 's doing quite a good job . |
| 21 | I 'm deeply sad that he feels like that and I would hope that when it happens , he might feel it 's not quite so bad and that he might change his mind . |