Example sentences of "quite [adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | IBM Corp enabled Wall Street to start last Tuesday with a smile on its face , reporting first quarter net profit of $1.04 a share , significantly ahead of analysts ' best estimates — but the figures are not quite as good as they looked , because a change in the basis of recognition of software revenues . |
| 32 | A glance at the assembled guests told him what he already knew — that no one looked quite as good as he did . |
| 33 | ‘ My sister is not quite as docile as you seem to think . |
| 34 | The division of species certainly is n't quite as definite as he supposed . |
| 35 | The mother , dialling the number on the phone , said , ‘ I 'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are . |
| 36 | You 're not quite as clever as you think and your shortcomings will be all too apparent to a switched-on youngster . |
| 37 | ‘ I 'm not quite as gullible as you seem to think , Luke , ’ she snapped . |
| 38 | He quickly realised that , tactically , the situation at Verdun was not quite as desperate as it had seemed at first sight . |
| 39 | ‘ But it might not be quite as simple as you imagine . |
| 40 | This is not quite as simple as it sounds : the camera operators have to shoot in such a way that their two pictures will edit together , and skilled editing is required . |
| 41 | ‘ I still have , but now my legs are n't quite as young as I feel . ’ |
| 42 | I still have , but now my legs are n't quite as young as I feel . |
| 43 | The issue is not quite as petty as it seems . |
| 44 | IF it 's more than a small amount that you 're drinking and also a regular thing then booze may not be quite as harmless as you think . |
| 45 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 46 | Yes , it is quite as sinister as it seems . |
| 47 | They do show , though , that the world even now is not quite as crowded as it seems ; that if agriculture was better organized , then it probably would be possible to feed the present human population , and still leave plenty of room for the rest of nature . |
| 48 | ‘ It 's not quite as black as it seems , Mr Nadirpur . |
| 49 | Lovro won Matačić , whose reputation was never quite as high as he deserved , remained the conductor . |
| 50 | ‘ I 'm not quite as silly as you think I am , Miguel . ’ |
| 51 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 52 | ‘ Becoming Mrs Ace Barton might turn out not to be quite as exciting as you think . |
| 53 | ‘ I have been on the bus since then and there has been nothing quite as bad but I have still heard very loud swearing and seen emergency doors open . ’ |
| 54 | erm we I mean we , we , we 've looked at the , the peasant tenant relationship erm and my , my opinion is that basically you know it was n't quite as bad as everyone 's made out erm but al okay we 're saying that warlords were , were very imperialistic and they were a huge fact to be considered but in Hunan and within the south erm eastern region say |
| 55 | Not quite as bad as I have seen on our modern commuter stations , but we were jam packed and could not be parted from our scant luggage . |
| 56 | ‘ I know I look a complete wreck , ’ answered Felicity Suvarov with a mischievous gleam in her remarkable eyes , ‘ but I do n't feel quite as bad as I look . ’ |
| 57 | erm and realise that no you do n't sound quite as bad as you think you might . |
| 58 | It was , I did n't erm believe that the picture of constraint that was painted in appendix two was quite as bad as it looked . |
| 59 | In engineering , cellulose is never used in the completely dry condition so that the range of strength and stiffness is not quite as bad as it sounds . |
| 60 | However it is n't quite as bad as it looks because the amount that you will have paid in will only feel like £4,520 . |