Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody is quite sure how anyone accurately judges where a moving object is in space and adjusts body movements to cope with it appropriately . |
| 2 | Nowadays in Kenya nobody is quite so happy or so optimistic about the NPA , for though it survives in urban schools its extension proved to be full of problems . |
| 3 | For a start , nobody is quite sure what is English , or whatever language it is we are trying to learn . |
| 4 | In the meantime , 1991 is also the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising and nobody is quite sure what to do about that either . |
| 5 | Now nobody is quite sure they can be saved , not while such a huge organisation answers to this board of education . |
| 6 | However , care should be exercised in the use of dictionaries of surnames , because none is quite infallible and some entries , in even the best of them , can be positively misleading , as the detailed example which forms the last section of this chapter demonstrates . |
| 7 | Among these creators of new states none is quite like Ho Chi Minh who , despite having the spotlight of publicity turned upon him by the world 's press , remains in many ways a mystery man . |
| 8 | Here we hope to develop the reader 's critical faculties by showing him , especially in relation to Q[x] , that not everything is quite as straightforward as he might have thought ( see in particular Section 1.6 ) . |
| 9 | Our customers are very nervous because of the publicity that not everything is quite right here |
| 10 | So far in the book , everything is quite likely to happen as it did . |
| 11 | Everything 's quite in order . ’ |
| 12 | Everything 's quite normal . |
| 13 | I clear my throat to show myself that everything 's quite normal . |
| 14 | No one is quite sure whether there will be more or less of them in a warmer global climate . |
| 15 | ‘ Still no one is quite clear about how long they will last . |
| 16 | No one is quite sure whether Baxter 's stories are fact or fiction but like that other legendary wordsmith , the former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly , Slim Jim never let reality get in the way of a good yarn . |
| 17 | Interpreting data in terms of slow-moving massive monopoles is not easy , because no one is quite sure what the ionising effects of such particles might be . |
| 18 | No one is quite sure what should be counted as fear . |
| 19 | No one is quite sure just how significant they are because , generally , they prefer to maintain a low profile and reveal as little information as they can . |
| 20 | No one is quite certain who invented Fair Isle knitting patterns , or the steps of the maypole dance where ribbons are woven round each other . |
| 21 | A double-breasted jacket needs no waistcoat , but one is quite acceptable with single-breasted . |
| 22 | That sounds rather like being shown an impressively beautiful palace and being told that no one is quite sure whether its foundations rest on bedrock or shifting sand . |
| 23 | Yet The red pencil is the chewed one is quite normal on both readings , which would not be expected if on one of the readings pencil referred only to the core . |
| 24 | But that one is quite erm Oh I thought I had some in here . |
| 25 | A further problem is that no one is quite sure exactly what defines health care and social care , since an individual 's progress in responding to treatment is often measured by an improvement in the performance of social care tasks and everyday activities . |
| 26 | They ignored a Druid 's temple — Johnson said , ‘ one is quite enough ’ — and then came to ‘ a little hut , with an old looking woman at the door of it . |
| 27 | Er yeah , I think that one 's quite a nice family album er portrait . |
| 28 | Yeah , and going over jumps and god knows what else which one 's quite a way really is n't it ? it 's quite comfortable eleven , eleven and a half , eleven stone over jumps in n it ? |
| 29 | That one 's quite pretty , it 's this bloody cable here ! |
| 30 | That white one 's quite nice . |