Example sentences of "quite [adj] because [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't know , I feel quite guilty because I think maybe I could of done a bit more , but I 'll certainly take it away now and I 'll have a chat with some of the |
| 2 | Record companies consider this support quite economic because they view a band 's tours as a good way of promoting records . |
| 3 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 4 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 5 | Some garden herbs are variants of a species and are quite acceptable because they retain their herbal qualities . |
| 6 | ‘ The Tories are quite wrong because we disagree profoundly with Labour on almost every cardinal principle of economic policy . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I think we are quite unique because we do not want to take their money and run . |
| 8 | This book , these books are quite good because they do give you a little bit of explanation . |
| 9 | I think from generally from courses are quite good because you do learn something and you 're |
| 10 | In practice it is quite complex because you need at least six lasers to trap a clump of atoms ; the lasers also have to be tuned to the natural movement of the atoms . |
| 11 | And I certainly think the results that you 've produced show that the , the problem is quite manageable because I think in the end you 've actually produced a very good programme for work . |
| 12 | Well it sounds like a lot of things but , but actually getting a game of tennis in it can be quite difficult because you know the weather 's turned against us now so |
| 13 | And he 's quite rare because I think I could get away with imposing my ideas on him . |
| 14 | which is quite nice because I 've never taught that |
| 15 | I also listened to Mr I did n't understand what he was saying but I did listen to him er the bit that I did er catch was his denial that erm the revenue budget for Moat and Highfields was half a million well he 's quite correct because I 've got the figures here . |
| 16 | The novel itself foregoes many such touches which are n't quite true because they betray a teasing Svidrigailov-like zest , or , if you prefer , counterzest ; just as , on the secondary plane , Lebyadkin 's reply to the man who tells him to stop getting drunk is wonderfully funny but wrong . |