Example sentences of "[prep] be quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , yes , we , the we had an extremely large rooms , I do n't know went , what , what , what went wrong the architect but we had two enormous rooms which could of been quite easily divided into three , but we could of had two bedrooms instead of one and the conse |
| 2 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
| 3 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 4 | Most bereaved people will talk of being quite sure they have seen the person who has died walking along the street and have called out to them before realizing that it could not be so . |
| 5 | A second was the emergence of a triangular relationship with the woman as ‘ pig in the middle ’ ; a particular point of concern was that the ‘ majority of husbands gave the impression of being quite distant from the situation ’ . |
| 6 | The Scissortail is a tough fish , making few demands for any special treatment , and has the added attraction of being quite easily bred . |
| 7 | People are quite capable of saying one thing and doing another , and of being quite unaware of this . |
| 8 | You two should get along like a house on fire as he 's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days . |
| 9 | Life seemed suspended and she had a disquieting sense of being quite alone . |
| 10 | He loved that role , Barry Took told me , because it was a way of being quite open about homosexuality and taking the mickey out of it was safe . |
| 11 | No , cos I could imagine Paul sort of being quite a homely chap |
| 12 | Goes through phases of being quite quite boisterous |
| 13 | Most British people and publications I am acquainted with are quite proud of their command of the English language and engage in quite a lot of patting themselves on the back . |
| 14 | The graphs we are concerned with are quite unrelated to the sort which physicists and engineers draw on graph paper . |
| 15 | Your insults to myself I can stomach ; those you choose to demean an innocent young girl with are quite another thing . |
| 16 | The straight people I was friendly with were quite realistic about my gayness , even intrigued by it and grew to know what I did and who I met . |
| 17 | ‘ The flat we are moving into is quite cold ; a rise of 17.5 per cent will be quite a bit . ’ |
| 18 | The general approach which they make is extremely varied , from being quite clandestine to being rather pushy. 1 think the more senior one becomes , the more serious any headhunting approach becomes . |
| 19 | The canal route led through pleasant scenery and was more congenial in every way apart from being quite hard work through the many locks . |
| 20 | The charm of this village lies not only in the pleasing situation , but in being quite unspoilt by modern buildings , and in still retaining a genuine ‘ olde worlde ’ atmosphere . |
| 21 | And from is quite a he 's doing some research into him and who comes form you know these people . |
| 22 | And compared with so self-evident a need , the matter of where the money was to come from was quite irrelevant . |
| 23 | We are never ‘ not quite up to it ’ , because there is no ‘ it ’ to be quite up to . |
| 24 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 25 | As they are only small they appear to be quite light , but seem to hold an edge and time can only tell how quickly they wear out . |
| 26 | A lower compartment with a curved zipper offers easy and quick access to things like waterproofs or extra sweaters , and the main bag itself has a zip-out divider , which I found to be quite useful . |
| 27 | Fast , zero wait state sram is expensive and since many DSPs have 24-bit data buses , can prove to be quite costly . |
| 28 | But here Mr Lawson does not seem to be quite so indifferent to the behaviour of consenting adults : he has been endeavouring to control their behaviour by altering the price at which they can borrow . |
| 29 | From the point when the Government 's high interest rate policies start taking effect to the point when companies start calling in the receiver , there tends to be quite a delay — liquidity problems do not suddenly emerge unless something dramatically goes wrong . |
| 30 | ‘ It astonishes me , to be quite honest , ’ he said , showing that it is not all swagger on the courts over here . |