Example sentences of "it is [adv] quite [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , it is however quite clear that the courts have not always adopted this approach . |
| 2 | It is thus quite clear that whatever he said about Shakespeare 's plays , Tolkien read some of them with keen attention : most of all , Macbeth . |
| 3 | It is probably quite likely that the foreigners were honest and hard working , keeping themselves much to themselves but it was clearly a tinder-box situation with the tiniest spark capable of leading to a conflagration . |
| 4 | Still , it is also quite possible that hesitancy or disagreement may persist without one side of the dispute or one aspect of one 's personality being more rational than another , or in possession of any deeper insight into truth . |
| 5 | It is also quite possible that the differences in bend angles seen reflect differences in shape of the proteins analysed due to regions outside the POU domain since bending is induced solely by the POU S domain ( 44 ) . |
| 6 | Societal reaction theory directs research towards the ideas and beliefs that give child abuse meaning in given contexts , but it is also quite clear that child abuse is not reducible to those beliefs . |
| 7 | It is also quite clear that neither clients nor designers can predict precisely how system environment will be affected by the new system.under these circumstances the best strategy appears to be one which provides opportunities for all those involved to learn from experience as the system development and operation progresses . |
| 8 | It is also quite clear that if , prior to the ten year charge , the asset had been located in the United Kingdom the fact that it is taken outside the United Kingdom so that trust becomes an excluded property trust does not cause a tax charge in itself . |
| 9 | It is also quite likely that there is truth in the other half of their assertion , which sounds as though it were consequential , but really is a quite unconnected proposition , namely , that there now may well be inadequate social services for other purposes . |
| 10 | It is also quite likely that there will be a mixture of positive and negative changes which need to be carefully interpreted . |
| 11 | It is also quite likely that the social services consumed some of the capital that could have been invested in industry , but again there was no scarcity of capital during this period . |
| 12 | It is also quite likely that allegations of malingering will be made and we would be grateful for your comments . |
| 13 | It is also quite conceivable that they could be caused in part by stressful , low status jobs . |
| 14 | It is really quite extraordinary that this does n't happen . |
| 15 | It is really quite incredible that , after ten months , Councillor Buchanan should still be unaware of such basic facts . |
| 16 | Yet it is really quite obvious that the truth must lie exactly midway between these two methodological extremes : any modern psychological event must be the product , both of contemporary psychology in individuals , and of past evolution in the species and the cultural group to which they belong . |
| 17 | It is therefore quite possible that two cells in a daughter will be more distant relatives of one another than either is to cells in the parent plant . |
| 18 | It is therefore quite ironic that when she wants to influence Eunice she can not . |
| 19 | It is then quite understandable that the blurb to John Clabby 's The Natural History of the Horse ( 1976 ) can claim the book incorporates ‘ the results of the latest researches in the growing science of ethology ’ . |
| 20 | For it is now quite certain that Darwin , who gives no credit to Wallace in his Origin of Species , would have been quite unable to write it without his essential contribution . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the courts have recognized the value of informal rules in a variety of contexts , and it is now quite clear that such rules may be subject to judicial review on a number of grounds ( as we will see in due course ) . |
| 22 | It is now quite clear that the complexities of white racism ( which is the focus here ) can not be grasped without an exploration of the anxieties and ambivalences generated particularly by white male , but also female , sexual anxieties and desires . |
| 23 | AT THAT difficult and defiant age of 19 , it is perhaps quite extraordinary that The Prayer Boat have chosen to study so closely the catalogues of The Waterboys and Van Morrison — old men , of their fathers ' generation . |