Example sentences of "was [not/n't] quite [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we accept the essence of the bi-partisan structure , we must recognise that political reality was not quite that simple . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the move of 1290 was not quite as cynical as all this may suggest . |
| 3 | The weather was not quite as nice as on our two previous trips , but it kept dry . |
| 4 | I was not quite as attentive to the game as perhaps I might have been : - ) |
| 5 | JUNE 19 : Today the weather was not quite as good , but there was an interesting morning 's play . |
| 6 | The appearance of privileged communities was not quite as haphazard as it may seem . |
| 7 | George Shelborne was not quite as sure about drinking to the Whig who , he pointed out , was even then in Paris fawning over Napoleon — but politely he mumbled a neutral assent . |
| 8 | He quickly realised that , tactically , the situation at Verdun was not quite as desperate as it had seemed at first sight . |
| 9 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |
| 10 | But while Wainfleet 's apology had been specious and he really did not see what all the fuss was about , he was not quite as carefree as he had let them think . |
| 11 | Benjamin Titford , we must say , was not quite as elevated socially as he appears to be in his water-colour portrait ; or rather , he had only recently become so — which was good enough , after all , for any Victorian member of the nouveaux-riches . |
| 12 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |
| 13 | First , internal Cabinet Office files suggest that Mr Attlee 's engine room was not quite as clean a machine as I had portrayed it . |
| 14 | This was the city she had dreamt about so often , and although it was not quite as clean and fairy-like as she had imagined , it possessed a quality of age and empire . |
| 15 | She was not quite as neat as she used to be . |
| 16 | Jack had obviously had one pint too many of Sussex Devil because his swing was not quite as smooth and slow as usual . |
| 17 | Indeed , he told himself as he walked briskly across the courtyard toward the covered way that led past Pathology and Pharmacy to the rear of the hospital and his own unit , it was not quite as bad as it might have been , taking it all around . |
| 18 | Eddie Murphy 's success as the leading world box-office star of the mid-80's proved once again that the general public was not quite as small-minded as the film studios seemed to believe but it was Spike Lee 's 1986 low budget success ‘ She 's Got ta Have It ’ that really began to turn the tide . |
| 19 | Perhaps Richard was not quite as accomplished as this . |
| 20 | This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first . |
| 21 | MGM was not quite as happy with The Crowd ( 1928 ) , which was held back for a year and temporarily given a happy ending and which proved only to be as Kine Weekly predicted ‘ a sound box office success ’ rather than a runaway winner . |
| 22 | The sociologist Émile Durkheim was not quite so sanguine . |
| 23 | The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that , ’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . |
| 24 | The take was not quite so certain with some of the more ‘ reluctant ’ varieties , but the more vigorous types were quite successful , and the method is a little quicker to do . |
| 25 | He corrected an error in Riemann 's work and showed by an ingenious example that the scope of the new theory was not quite so great as some had claimed . |
| 26 | Barnhorne was not quite so impressive , set as it was on the shifting , sea-threatened , marshland east of Pevensey . |
| 27 | But it was not quite so simple . |
| 28 | Outside London ( did anyone live outside London ? ) the picture was not quite so simple : getting hold of the latest fab gear in 1966 Swindon was akin to finding mange-touts in Caithness in 1985 . |
| 29 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 30 | Father was not quite so sure . |