Example sentences of "[noun] of be quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , cos I could imagine Paul sort of being quite a homely chap |
| 2 | Goes through phases of being quite quite boisterous |
| 3 | The Scissortail is a tough fish , making few demands for any special treatment , and has the added attraction of being quite easily bred . |
| 4 | Life seemed suspended and she had a disquieting sense of being quite alone . |
| 5 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 6 | You two should get along like a house on fire as he 's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days . |
| 7 | He loved that role , Barry Took told me , because it was a way of being quite open about homosexuality and taking the mickey out of it was safe . |
| 8 | A second was the emergence of a triangular relationship with the woman as ‘ pig in the middle ’ ; a particular point of concern was that the ‘ majority of husbands gave the impression of being quite distant from the situation ’ . |