Example sentences of "with quite the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no young chaser with quite the promise of Ten Plus among the unknowns . |
| 2 | The crowds have not spat out his name with quite the virulence they showed for Mr Milos Jakes and Mr Miroslav Stepan , the Prague party supremo , in their last days , but there has always been an underlying , almost universal contempt . |
| 3 | It was a story close to his heart and dated back to 1964 , before the Vietnam War was being viewed with quite the same violent passions it was arousing in the late Sixties . |
| 4 | The London Planetarium no longer strikes one with quite the same sense of awe , because planetariums are no longer new . |
| 5 | Significantly , some of the most illuminating comments in the book would have been excised if Hughes had pursued his task with quite the systematic rigour he commends . |
| 6 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 7 | In exceptional cases , schools may have been included in the project without all the usual procedures having been followed with quite the normal rigour . |
| 8 | It is not irrelevant that Barnaby Rudge is concerned with the Gordon Riots of 1780 , although The Warren is not consumed with quite the virulence that destroys the chateau of Monseigneur in A Tale of Two Cities ( 1859 ) during the French Revolution : |
| 9 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |