Example sentences of "be quite the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm only — I wo n't say glad , no , that would be quite the wrong word , but , shall I say relieved , that it happened last night . ’ |
| 2 | And then after a long pause , he sighed , ‘ But it will never be quite the same . ’ |
| 3 | ASKING directions will never be quite the same . |
| 4 | Bill Pedler was made an Honorary Member but was never to be quite the force he was prewar . |
| 5 | Nothing could be quite the same again . |
| 6 | The total number of schools associated with the various projects is small , and , while even these may not continue to incorporate the new ideas in their user education , they have been sufficiently exposed to new approaches to schools user education to suggest that for them at least and probably for many other schools traditional school library instruction will not be quite the same again . |
| 7 | From 1997 chemistry laboratories will not be quite the same . |
| 8 | I was advised by a friend that it would n't be quite the thing to go in raincoat and wellies ! |
| 9 | Joan was aware that her life would never be quite the same again . |
| 10 | Nothing would be quite the same after what he had just heard . |
| 11 | After it , movies would never be quite the same again . |
| 12 | He might not be quite the regal material the Tongan people were looking for , and as his wheezing old father — born in 1918 , still fit , but neither infallible nor immortal — tottered around the herbaceous borders , I fancied , or perhaps dreaded , that soon we might see the kingdom fall and a republic rise in its place , and the monarchy he represented fall victim to the spirit of the age , as ancient and outworn as Captain Cook 's old tortoise . |
| 13 | Even though their losses forced them to merge before the end of the year , the assumptions on which TV had been organized could never be quite the same again . |
| 14 | His own heart would never be quite the same now that he 'd seen her . |
| 15 | After 1992 , the TV scene in this country is never going to be quite the same again . |
| 16 | For those few moments life seemed not to be quite the noisome beast it had become of late — the pale November sun was a warming coin in the palm , fear was forgotten , bloodshed cleansed away , losses solaced . |
| 17 | He did n't really understand what had happened or why , but he sensed things would never be quite the same again . |
| 18 | Whatever directions artists were to take after the war , it was already clear that painting could never be quite the same again . |
| 19 | ‘ He thinks I 'm his mother ’ she said blissfully , as Patrick gazed up at her from her lap — dolls will never be quite the same again . |
| 20 | " I do n't know that that would be quite the right thing to do . " |
| 21 | Live there did not seem to be quite the word for someone whose residence there appeared so transient . |
| 22 | Theodora could see the minds of her clerical superiors weighing up their own list of priorities which , she guessed , might not be quite the same as the Inspector 's . |
| 23 | Nothing will ever be quite the same again . |
| 24 | Will he remind any business man foolish enough to think that a Labour Government would be better for business of the myriad proposals which would prove the truth to be quite the opposite , which would make life far more difficult and which would especially energise union militancy which is at the bottom of some of the proposals ? |
| 25 | Whatever happens it seems the town will never be quite the same again . " |
| 26 | It does n't have to be quite the same , one does n't always have to have red and gold . |
| 27 | ( Barry Legge ) No , I think it 'll be quite the reverse , at the moment we have a benefits system that stretches right across the spectrum , and there are many people receiving benefits at the moment that do n't really need them . |
| 28 | It is no exaggeration to say your life will never be quite the same again . ’ |
| 29 | IF ON April 9 Neil Kinnock is returned as PM it will not be quite the disaster that other Socialist governments of the past have proved to be . |
| 30 | So it 'll be quite the top Sue . |