Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [is] quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | The connection between miracles and faith is quite simple . |
| 2 | But the relation of fertility to women 's employment and income is quite different . |
| 3 | At times Tim 's speed and intelligence is quite breathtaking and I sure that with a couple of years experience he will become a very fine craftsman . |
| 4 | ‘ Wet and cold 's quite enough to know in a lifetime full of fish ! ’ |
| 5 | There are a lot of ways that er both the Councillors can get into the habit and recycling is quite habit forming of recycling and from that er home use of recycling they will learn that there is a lot of products they can use in their councils ; recycled plastic makes very good er roadside signs that do n't rust and do n't need painting . |
| 6 | Get the bomb squad out any way , but erm , the British army has got a lot of important that 's they way we would fight the Russians , take over a small hamlet , mortify it and that 's how the only way we would ever up the Russian 's grass nest , they take it very seriously , so what they did if they tell us how to do it , walks us through , show us what to do , let us do it and then they 'd make us do it again , but without any mistakes and that , it was really good and they showed us how to er mortify up a house , go , going through all the sewers and stuff is quite fun |
| 7 | He argued that issues of fact were more difficult than in Britain because there was much false testimony and also because ‘ precision of observation with regard to time and distance is quite unknown to a large proportion of witnesses . ’ |
| 8 | That a mere colonel in the White House would have taken it upon himself to engage in such duplicitous and totally illegal operations without the president 's knowledge and authority is quite impossible to believe . |
| 9 | The cliffs themselves are banted back in order to make them safe from rock falls and so forth , but they , they do still suffer from weathering attack by rain , by frost , and the combination of salt from spray and frost is quite damaging , so that anybody who walks along the undercliff knows that in winter , for example , you tend to get a sludge of erm white erm finely divided wet chalk which sledges off erm cliff , particularly those people in recent years who 've walked behind the marina , where it no longer gets washed off by the high tide erm where Brighton Corporation have to keep trying to remove it . |
| 10 | Thousands of Tin Pan Alley tunes share this scheme and Adorno is quite justified in arguing that to listeners of the time it would be totally predictable . |
| 11 | Empiricism which , as a system , rejects all a priori knowledge and which rests solely on experience and induction is quite different from empirical knowledge gained from experience . |
| 12 | This is a kind of ironic musical send-up of the life and times of the inhabitants of San Fernando Valley , on the other side of the Santa Monica mountains from Hollywood , and kitsch is quite deliberately its middle name . |
| 13 | Unlike gas and electricity which have other uses and purposes , solid fuel is predominantly used to provide heating , and VAT is quite simply a tax on warmth . |