Example sentences of "[prep] quite an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of quite an international edition of Central News I 'd say . |
| 2 | Both these kinds are inter-related so , that 's really a sort of quite an artificial separation . |
| 3 | Gone were the days when she could just get up in the morning , make coffee , leave a note for Mrs Bennett and go off to Brentwoods with , maybe , the anticipation of quite an exciting day . |
| 4 | In a block of premises each tenant can normally be regarded as consenting to the presence of water on the premises if the supply is of the usual character , but not if it is of quite an unusual kind , or defective or dangerous , unless he actually knows of that . |
| 5 | From what I remember , we went down quite well and it was the beginning of quite an interesting career for the young Mr Jones . ’ |
| 6 | Melissa spat out the word derisively and with quite an excessive amount of venom . |
| 7 | Most bureaucrats see the world in terms of categories and problems in quite an impersonal sense and hence they see conservation as a major responsibility of planners , whether the locals want it or not . |
| 8 | The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system . |
| 9 | As will be seen , any attempt to question such assumptions was likely to raise the question , sometimes in quite an explosive form , as to whether the study could be authorized as " English " at all . |
| 10 | She heard him coming upstairs in quite an ordinary way as if nothing had changed , nothing had happened . |
| 11 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
| 12 | In my opinion Karenin acted in quite an unpredictable way but I think this was because he was so entirely shattered by Anna 's actions . |
| 13 | She is the first to admit that she was bitten by the Puppy Love bug from quite an early age — which stood her in good stead when it came to dealing with the opposite sex in later years . |
| 14 | From quite an early age , his mother told me , John 's interest in theatrical things , and specifically in ballet , manifested itself in setting up cardboard boxes as stages , with pipe cleaners for dancers . |
| 15 | The relationship between father and son was always strained and the child insisted on having himself called by his second name , Lawrence , from quite an early age . |
| 16 | Recent surveys have suggested that parents want their children to learn about these things at school , and from quite an early age . |
| 17 | From quite an early age I was expected to be somewhere around . |
| 18 | At quite an early stage , there were reports of trouble from the location work in New Orleans . |
| 19 | Things are somewhat different when it comes to the sales decision : here it seems that many worked out at quite an early stage that the sales strategy ought to take a reservation form ( with perhaps an intermediate section to take account of risk and risk aversion ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Equally I believe that you should stop using smacking as a way of punishing a child when that child is big enough to hit you back — and that 's at quite an early age . |
| 21 | There was also an acceptance , as the implications were worked out later in the paper , that Terminal courses with ‘ a good deal of teaching at quite an elementary level ’ were ‘ a most important part ’ of the WEA 's work ; that university graduates , who usually had a narrow academic education , could benefit from the breadth of learning offered by the WEA quite as much as manual workers ; that courses in literature and the arts were clearly a valid part of the WEA 's total provision because they attracted new members , taught the processes of serious study and by enriching lives helped ‘ in raising the quality of the public which has the power of judgement upon those set in authority over it ’ . |
| 22 | If one were to count heads , particularly among younger economists , Keynesian ideas were being eclipsed at quite an astonishing speed . |
| 23 | It all fizzes along at quite an invigorating rate without ever threatening to rise above the gaudily superficial . |