Example sentences of "be quite [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There ; ll be nobody left behind to grieve , ’ carolled Lehrer , looking on the bright side , Kahn , on the other hand , advocated massive investment in deep shelters so that at least the lucky half — or should it be the unlucky half ? — would be left behind to grieve , and to prove that war need not yet be quite abandoned as mankind 's most addictive sport . |
| 2 | One is that any attempt to draw a line between the meaning of a word and ‘ encyclopaedic ’ facts concerning the extra-linguistic referents of the word would be quite arbitrary ; another is that there is no motivation for isolating ‘ pragmatic meaning ’ as a separate domain of lexical meaning . |
| 3 | Again the date 1930 appears to be deprived from no known authority and to be quite arbitrary . |
| 4 | The others must be quite rare . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah must be quite rare . |
| 6 | I recognised at school that I had the talent to become a politician when , at the end of a particularly bad term , the headmaster wrote on my report , ’ One can not help but be quite captivated by him , provided one gives him no work to do . ’ |
| 7 | May 's comment on oxidized wares seems to us today to be quite astonishing : ‘ common flower pot red , or tile-red wares were as offensive for domestic purpose to the Romans , as to ourselves and should generally speaking , be regarded as ‘ wasters ’ — overbaked and distorted specimens which accumulate in heaps besides kilns as one sometimes made use of in their own locality ’ . |
| 8 | In one case this turned out to be quite untrue . |
| 9 | This commits you to examining each word and can be quite tiring . |
| 10 | I do need , er , I do know that that the conflict between government , local government , the voluntary sector and all others who have an interest , can be quite prodigious , and the ways to resource can be also , quite considerable , and the whole thing does need to be debated and sorted out . |
| 11 | This may be quite absurd in some cases , notably where population is spatially clustered within a physically large ED . |
| 12 | Indeed it would be quite absurd if companies can not correct any mistake if all interested parties agree . |
| 13 | And indeed , since social anthropology is centrally concerned with the diversity of culture , it would be quite absurd if it could somehow be inferred from what social anthropologists teach that cultural diversity is both politically and morally deplorable . |
| 14 | From initial investigations , it appeared that some measure of the number of letters in a word , and the word shape , would be quite restrictive for the list of possible candidates ( for Case 1 ) , as discussed below . |
| 15 | When asked , ‘ What sort of fights ? ’ , one of the lads replied , ‘ Well , not real fights , as some of them might be quite matey … when you put the boot in , you put the boot in , but we are friendly after , like ’ . |
| 16 | Their durability and versatility has proved to be quite extraordinary . |
| 17 | ‘ It astonishes me , to be quite honest , ’ he said , showing that it is not all swagger on the courts over here . |
| 18 | To be quite honest , they have barely scratched the surface anywhere overseas . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ To be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , we hope that by offering you all the assistance we can that you will respond by being sympathetic to our , er , request for — shall we say , unsensational coverage ? |
| 20 | I do n't believe you , ’ said Scargill continuously until Snow sheepishly confessed that , ‘ to be quite honest ’ , he had not . |
| 21 | To be quite honest , the racist element did not even enter our heads . |
| 22 | Bruno never takes an opponent for granted but said : ‘ I saw the tape of Coetzer 's fight with Bowe and to be quite honest I do n't think there 's any problem with him . |
| 23 | To be quite honest I quite like the iron |
| 24 | I 'd have to , I 'd have to erm I 'd have to raise it er and I think to be quite honest the er I mean fortunately as I said earlier on Mr chairman there is a Regional Liaison Group meeting on , on Monday er and I have a captive audience of three budget holders , Doug Gill and Phil , erm and raise this with them . |
| 25 | I think , I to be quite honest , correct me if I 'm wrong , with regard to the publicity group , that the publicity group really was to get something out that was going to act as an icebreaker to the members . |
| 26 | CHRISTOPHER : Well to be quite honest , I did n't like it — so I got a place at the Art College . |
| 27 | No , let us be quite honest . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd have preferred a bottle of Chardonnay to be quite honest , but that did the job . ’ |
| 29 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 30 | I do n't to be quite honest I do n't think there 's anything left of . |