Example sentences of "and [be] quite [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admit I have watched Jamie doing this and been quite impressed . |
| 2 | The ministers get about £80 a year and are quite uneducated . |
| 3 | Warrington have the best half-back pairing in the game at the moment in Greg Mackey and Kevin Ellis and are quite capable of twisting the knife . |
| 4 | For example , 39 to 44 below all have a present-tense marked form of have and are quite unremarkable examples of standard English present-perfect sentence types . |
| 5 | But fretbuzz is a very subjective thing ; I 've met a number of players who will sacrifice all for a low playing action and are quite happy to put up with extraneous noises that others would run a mile to avoid . |
| 6 | We sell each other 's garments and are quite happy to do so . |
| 7 | Yes , I feel that it 's very much a case that they have things done to them all the time and our pupils , a lot of them , are quite sort of apathetic in decision-making and are quite happy to accept , or appear to be happy to accept , whatever anybody decides should be done for them , to them . |
| 8 | His most interesting essays during this period are , in fact , on specific poets , and are quite unencumbered by the theoretical baggage which he felt compelled to carry with him on other occasions ; as a result , they show his criticism at its best — witty , cogent , perceptive . |
| 9 | Some garden herbs are variants of a species and are quite acceptable because they retain their herbal qualities . |
| 10 | They tend to have a distinctive , pungent flavour and are quite different from other cheeses . |
| 11 | ‘ But we are not going to rush into anything and are quite willing to discuss this with the residents of Stoke Gardens . ’ |
| 12 | The train that leaves Inverness in the morning does not reach Wick till a late hour in the evening : the hotel folk know this , and are quite prepared to keep open house till after the arrival of the train . |
| 13 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 14 | The spouting water sprays add a touch of authenticity , and are quite edible as they are made from rice paper . |
| 15 | I know quite a lot about his work and his reputation , and am quite proud of him , but I do n't expect ever to exchange one word with him . |
| 16 | One of the men he approached was Spurgeon who gave him this characteristic response : ‘ I sit on my own gate , and whistle my own tunes , and am quite content . ’ |
| 17 | " But I have no wish to bring dishonour on you or your family , and am quite prepared to hand him back to you and forget about the whole matter — on one condition. ; |
| 18 | I think I 'm gon na get up nine o'clock actually and be quite productive some washing . |
| 19 | Daedalus expects that his under-pressured volunteers will lose appetite and be quite happy on two meals a day , especially if he provides airline food . |
| 20 | On short putts crouch a little more and be quite deliberate about the stroke itself . |
| 21 | well my Lord let me clarify and be quite clear |
| 22 | The attempts of the Serbs to form a Christian coalition against the advancing Turks were as ineffective as those of the great Albanian leader , Skanderbeg , who , like Djuradj Branković , found that the would-be allies often exacted a heavy price for their help and were quite capable of deserting the cause when it suited them . |
| 23 | In the summer of 1312 papal emissaries arrived in London to make peace between the king and his barons but their overtures were quickly rejected by the barons who , as one chronicler put it , ‘ had no notion of letters , but were skilled in military affairs and the use of arms ’ and were quite unwilling ‘ to discuss their own deeds or business of the realm with any foreigner or alien ’ . |
| 24 | as I say erm we 've got those but we were looking the other day and were quite amazed at how many different flowers there are out . |
| 25 | We were in Glasgow last weekend , and were quite chuffed when Ewan consented to come out for a walk just with us two , as he clings to Joyce a bit at the moment . |
| 26 | He 'd been buying his clothes at Acme Attractions up the road — a stall which generally did exactly the same as Malcolm only six months later , and were quite open about it . |
| 27 | Firstly , there was the bare fact that two London East Enders , both of whom had left school at fifteen and were quite untutored in writing , had felt so passionately about their situation that , in different prisons and unknown to each other , they had each set themselves the daunting task of writing the equivalent of full-length books . |
| 28 | We know , too , that in the Devonian period , up to 410 million years ago , there were vast reefs off the west coast of Australia that were made by animals of a class that is now extinct , and were quite different from today 's corals . |
| 29 | Stefania played her role to perfection , managing to give the impression of existing only provisionally , to a limited extent , and being quite prepared at the drop of a hat either to become completely real or to vanish without trace , whichever was more convenient . |
| 30 | To have separate parties urging effectively identical policies seems absurd and is quite contrary to British political traditions . |