Example sentences of "[adv] be quite [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , assessment by a health visitor of a mother 's knowledge about maintaining a safe environment for her young child in the home would obviously be quite different from an occupational health nurse 's assessment of an employee 's risk of accident at work . |
| 2 | The diet following infarction will obviously be quite light . |
| 3 | These clubs have been part of the backbone of British rugby for decades , but Mr Salmon would obviously be quite happy to see them fade into extinction . |
| 4 | In addition their mottled leaves significantly extend the season of interest , so be quite sure to allow enough space for them to reach their full potential glory . |
| 5 | Er ooh I figure I 'd only be quite young perhaps might be about five . |
| 6 | The novel opens with the sentence : ‘ I shall soon be quite redundant at last despite of all , as redundant as you after queue and as totally predictable , information-content zero ’ ( 5 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ National police forces will soon be quite unable to cope as a freshly unified and borderless European consumer paradise becomes a Disneyland for criminals , ’ said Zachert . |
| 8 | Running costs will thus be quite high and ni-cads should be considered . |
| 9 | I wonder if deep down that peppery gentleman 's irritation might perhaps have been due to fear that once the gaff about whisky not being suitable for the kitchen was blown the master 's bottle would no longer be quite sacrosanct . |
| 10 | It would not be quite accurate to equate satyāgraha with either civil disobedience or non-cooperation although both are related to satyāgraha . |
| 11 | If , at the end of this year , the total funds — I reckon those to be £44 million , but that figure may not be quite accurate — are underspent , will my hon. Friend advertise for people who , from 1989 to 1991 , did not receive their full allocation and allow anyone , including my constituents , to apply to help them use up any unused balance ? |
| 12 | The girls in these 38 families may not be quite typical of the 1910 sample , since the 1906 survey was skewed towards the " less prosperous working class ; the occupations of their fathers were Overwhelmingly manual ( no tradesmen for instance ) . |
| 13 | This means that although credit cards are probably still the cheapest way to pay bills abroad , they may not be quite such good value as they used to be . |
| 14 | Yet it would not be quite right to call Under Briggflatts ‘ controversial ’ , for that deadened word implies a self-serving wish to shock which is far from Davie 's considered anger . |
| 15 | People will tell you how something may not be quite right . |
| 16 | But that may not be quite right . |
| 17 | But we know it can not be quite right because it does n't incorporate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics . |
| 18 | A standard paragraph may not always reflect the tone required to deal with a particular enquiry ; it may not be quite appropriate to particular circumstances and it may not feel right to the recipient . |
| 19 | In other words , we have another instance where common surface patterns are followed even when they may not be quite appropriate to the intensional structure ( see Section 8.7 ; and Ferris , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | Still , he could not be quite sure that he always did that with his bread . |
| 21 | ‘ A very nice man , ’ said George , and Lee could not be quite sure whether he remembered or not . |
| 22 | In his Chicago lectures , for example , he described how certain passages of Notes toward the Definition of Culture had been exposed as a " mass of contradictions " and , at the end , he also made a rueful disclaimer — " I am quite aware that I have been trying to persuade , although I may not be quite sure of what " . |
| 23 | And though Tutilo did not yet know what lay in store for him , nevertheless he could not be quite sure this apparently joyous return would be the end of it . |
| 24 | You could not be quite sure where the Tree part ended and the Human part began , although nobody was sure if Tree Spirits possessed any Human blood . |
| 25 | When she dared to look back , however , she saw nothing more alarming than Jem Bales , the woodman , and behind him , in the shadow of the trees , a woman who might have been Audrey , the kitchen-maid , though she could not be quite sure . |
| 26 | Then the evening will not be quite wasted for Ace … |
| 27 | On reflection , however , this may not be quite true , since anyone who sets out to plant a wildlife garden instinctively takes a much keener interest in , and is influenced by , natural plant associations and communities . |
| 28 | This is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level , though we must bear in mind that these expectations are calculated on the basis of a purely random distribution of sites , which may not be quite true in practice . |
| 29 | It would not be quite true to claim that his wide experience of light music , and the strain of singing long parts , with numerous encores , throughout the week left no mark on either his style or his vocal chords ; but he can be justly likened to two other similarly popular tenors , John McCormack and Tito Schipa , in his ability to return successfully to serious music until the end of his career . |
| 30 | If you learn to keep your emotions in check until you are all back in the dressing-room , then at least you will leave the punters thinking that they have seen a professional band who might not be quite ready for a week at the Hammersmith Odeon . |