Example sentences of "quite as [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Indeed , although the commons appointed as Speaker Sir Thomas Hungerford , who was Gaunt 's Steward of South Parts , they were not quite as docile as has sometimes been supposed . |
| 3 | It 's not quite as effective as walking on water , but it comes close . |
| 4 | Although they undoubtedly exist throughout the world , only Scotland could resort to something quite as sad as turning a pub into a museum of dispirited sport . |
| 5 | The loved one is an ice-cool blonde genius murder suspect ( Stone ) , and the finale is n't quite as cut-and-dried as expected , which gives protestors a problem : in order to give away the ending , they 'll have to understand it first . |
| 6 | There is nothing quite as bad as watching other people eat and drink what you are trying to avoid . |
| 7 | I do not ever recall being quite as sick and shaken as I was then , about an hour and a half ago . |
| 8 | Since none of these activities is costless , however , the situation is not quite as clear as suggested by economists who propose that efficiency should be the only goal . |