Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might have liked more about p H effects on Ca buffers , as the former are no longer ‘ expected to be quite small ’ in some systems also involving calcium . |
| 2 | The relations between the labour organisation and the government or the party of independence , and hence the status of these actors … may be expected to be quite different in these two types of situations . |
| 3 | Growing in excess of 400mm , Synodontis schall can be expected to be quite long lived , provided it is well cared for in the aquarium . |
| 4 | I though me time had come to be quite honest . |
| 5 | He has come to be quite a feature in the pub . ’ |
| 6 | Considered to be quite unique , the collection consists of paintings and sculptures by Joseph Beuys , Georg Baselitz , Jörg Immendorff , Imi Knoebel , Markus Lüpertz , Blinky Palermo , A.R . |
| 7 | For example , being prepared to kill others for the sake of one 's country — fatherland or motherland — or the act of ‘ falling in love ’ are both considered to be quite ‘ normal ’ acts in modern Western society . |
| 8 | An officer from a large rural district considered to be quite a ‘ difficult ’ patch observed , for instance , that he was ‘ sure the blokes in [ the city nearby ] , where there are many polluting discharges into relatively fishless rivers , would not worry about things that 'd cause great concern to Stewart and Fred ’ [ two officers in very rural catchments with potable supply rivers ) . |
| 9 | The existing arrangements of asking for police assistance when the presence of weapons is suspected are considered to be quite adequate . |
| 10 | To her female friends her ‘ vanity ’ was considered to be quite justified . |
| 11 | It is perhaps a reflection of the overall picture in academic libraries that their rates of use were deemed to be quite good . |
| 12 | I feel absolutely shattered to be quite honest . |
| 13 | The rivers ' safety record is reckoned to be quite good and the authority wants tyo ensure that this wweeekend people don'ty do over the top in case they wind up going under . |
| 14 | The youngster was taken to Bishop Auckland General Hospital where his condition last night was said to be quite comfortable and improving . |
| 15 | On such a calendar , the Gunflint fossils of algae-like organisms , which seemed so extremely ancient when they were first discovered , are seen to be quite latecomers in the history of life , not appearing until the second week of August . |
| 16 | This will not provide great accuracy but is thought to be quite satisfactory for the present purpose . |
| 17 | No-one is quite sure of the origin of the PHANTOM , who is female and thought to be quite overweight with flabby arms and many double-chins . |
| 18 | The sun around which they orbit is thought to be quite old . |
| 19 | no I know , they have to wait that 's it , got to be quite left in the shop today were n't we ? |
| 20 | I think it 's fair to say , particularly in the case of Wales which is perhaps one of the more surprising erm elements there , Wales as you know has tended to be quite a strong region during the recovery period erm it may be because er certain , I think a lot of although as I say Wales is a weaker region in terms of the expected |
| 21 | The claims of the army , that the Vietcong were too weak to launch a major attack , were shown to be quite unjustified . |
| 22 | Now two things have happened — one is that better , safer pills have been introduced , but secondly a lot of the scares which there were of five or ten years ago , have been shown to be quite unjustified , so we now know that using the more modern of the oral contraceptives erm there 's really very little risk indeed . |
| 23 | Of course , our conscious rationalizations of our own significance and the significance of our art are bound to be quite illusory . |
| 24 | The signalling properties of the polarizing region are now known to be quite unrelated to cell death which is a separate process . |
| 25 | Even the would-be socially superior , the boastful , and the priggish may be found to be quite agreeable people once they have relaxed . |
| 26 | Another material , charcoal-grey cartridge paper , was found to be quite dark in all ranges , and it is cheap , readily obtainable and easily cut and shaped for the purposes described above . |
| 27 | Their durability and versatility has proved to be quite extraordinary . |
| 28 | That 's proved to be quite difficult because the firm as a whole is trying it out but it for example with M C S it can be related to a particular task , to a particular erm assignment , so it 's assignment related . |
| 29 | Batch 3 was intended to be quite small , in terms of numbers of courses . |
| 30 | He 's meant to be quite sad that he dies |