Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ian looks quite a good keeper all-round . |
| 2 | I think centenary park has quite a ring to it . |
| 3 | Maria has quite a long job . |
| 4 | Should the discussion stray just once from generic to specific advice , however casually ( ‘ the Borsetshire Union has quite a good deal on offer at the moment ’ ) , investment business has been carried out . |
| 5 | Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation . |
| 6 | Yeah that football sounds quite a good idea |
| 7 | Now this kind of ordering text on a page if you 're using a typewriter takes quite a lot of skill but if you 're a , with a word processor it 's actually quite easy . |
| 8 | You can certainly do group suggestive therapy and here we touch on another point that erm Joy reminds us of and Freud makes quite a bit on the book the parallel between being in a group and being hypnotized , because the , the , the role of the hypnotist is to take over completely |
| 9 | In planning terms , Liphook plays quite an important part on the district map , said chairman Mr. Croucher . |
| 10 | With a sword in one hand and a pair of scales in the other , it symbolizes British justice and law — and the law has quite a lot to say about self-defence . |
| 11 | , yes , what they do is say a bloke , one bloke owns quite a bit of that cricket ground , Tesco 's he said , Tesco 's what they sa , they know that he want 's , he 's put the plans in to upgrade all , to get a bigger site somewhere else , for |
| 12 | Heliport close-up makes quite an impression on visitors |
| 13 | The common law provides quite an armoury of such principles , and new applications can be found for them by a bold judge . |
| 14 | Isobel has quite a few ah mm picture book . |
| 15 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 16 | Three to five years seems quite a long way forward in the current uncertain climate . |
| 17 | War is in fact something about which Coleridge mentions quite a bit in the long poem Fears in Solitude , and from this we know his opinions on the whole affair are quite unfortunate : |
| 18 | Daddy knows quite a lot of people in the cinema . |
| 19 | This of course requires quite a sophisticated language helper . |
| 20 | It is heavily influenced by Richard Strauss and Wagner , but it is by no means absurdly derivative : in fact Schillings has quite a flair for arresting harmonic ideas . |
| 21 | The Drowners says quite a lot about Suede as a concept in that it showcases the way we work rhythms into a song , the aggressive bite of the guitar lines , the drawled vocals and the kind of things it talks about . ’ |
| 22 | Unfortunately , she makes up fifty per cent of the cast — the only other character is her master , Uberto — and sings rather more than fifty per cent of the music , so the drawback becomes quite a serious one . |
| 23 | The stove remains quite a complex piece of engineering however and careful handling and maintenance is necessary . |
| 24 | For example Australia produces quite a lot , Sweden produces a lot , and it 's imported into this country in bulk ore carriers . |
| 25 | The Mid Shift button offers quite a marked change in tonality , and is something to be left to the taste of the individual and his/her guitar type . |
| 26 | The second half of the definition introduces quite a different concept ; development here means not a physical operation but a change in the use of a piece of land or a structure . |
| 27 | Like the Crabb affair , this fiasco teaches quite a few lessons . |
| 28 | Erm , the , I , I , I wish to explain the theory behind the reschedule marker , or reschedule marker depending on where you come from , but I warn you now , the theory leaves quite a lot to be desired . |
| 29 | Oh , right , we row , we lucky we 've got a row of trees all the way along the back fence like , and in the summer when all the foliage makes quite a nice barrier for the noise and sound and stuff , but what were trying to do is to stop them from , were trying to make them spread out |
| 30 | He said delicately , ‘ Stock involves quite a lot of ladder work , in the warehouse … ’ as if Anna might not be up to such physical strenuousness . |