Example sentences of "[prep] [be] quite [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
| 2 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 3 | People are quite capable of saying one thing and doing another , and of being quite unaware of this . |
| 4 | A second was the emergence of a triangular relationship with the woman as ‘ pig in the middle ’ ; a particular point of concern was that the ‘ majority of husbands gave the impression of being quite distant from the situation ’ . |
| 5 | Most bereaved people will talk of being quite sure they have seen the person who has died walking along the street and have called out to them before realizing that it could not be so . |
| 6 | He loved that role , Barry Took told me , because it was a way of being quite open about homosexuality and taking the mickey out of it was safe . |
| 7 | Life seemed suspended and she had a disquieting sense of being quite alone . |
| 8 | Most British people and publications I am acquainted with are quite proud of their command of the English language and engage in quite a lot of patting themselves on the back . |
| 9 | The graphs we are concerned with are quite unrelated to the sort which physicists and engineers draw on graph paper . |
| 10 | The straight people I was friendly with were quite realistic about my gayness , even intrigued by it and grew to know what I did and who I met . |
| 11 | ‘ The flat we are moving into is quite cold ; a rise of 17.5 per cent will be quite a bit . ’ |
| 12 | The canal route led through pleasant scenery and was more congenial in every way apart from being quite hard work through the many locks . |
| 13 | The general approach which they make is extremely varied , from being quite clandestine to being rather pushy. 1 think the more senior one becomes , the more serious any headhunting approach becomes . |
| 14 | The charm of this village lies not only in the pleasing situation , but in being quite unspoilt by modern buildings , and in still retaining a genuine ‘ olde worlde ’ atmosphere . |
| 15 | And compared with so self-evident a need , the matter of where the money was to come from was quite irrelevant . |
| 16 | A lower compartment with a curved zipper offers easy and quick access to things like waterproofs or extra sweaters , and the main bag itself has a zip-out divider , which I found to be quite useful . |
| 17 | seems to be quite useful nowadays . |
| 18 | That 'll have to be quite useful for your holiday in France and every thing ai n't it ? |
| 19 | And I mean I think women tend to be inv having to cope with things like school and er and health and you know they 're a at the grass roots if you like of you know at the receiving end of you know say cuts in in services like that and bus services and just quality of rural life and I mean the quality of life in Blaenau is depopulation and unemployment and you know and and in a sense there is lot of scope for women to break down the barriers of you know cos it is true that the the Councillors they 're supposed to represent the people or whatever tend to be quite well to do they 've done it thank you very much and then oh you know they 've got the time on their hands and they tend to be men and s school ex school teachers ex You know and they 're not having to cope with really situations that go will put them in touch with what it 's like not to have a bus service or not to have proper health care and this sort of thing you know . |
| 20 | It seems to be quite serious . ’ |
| 21 | The woman 's going to be quite posh . |
| 22 | Again the date 1930 appears to be deprived from no known authority and to be quite arbitrary . |
| 23 | He 's meant to be quite sad that he dies |
| 24 | I 've never found that a congenial notion ; it seemed to me that there were ways to be quite contemporary and yet go at the art in a fashion that would allow you to tell complicated stories simply for the aesthetic pleasure of complexity of complication and unravelment , suspense , and the rest . |
| 25 | It seems to be quite recent . |
| 26 | Thus George Harrison 's song " My Sweet Lord " was alleged to have infringed an earlier song " He 's so Fine " , but it is thought that the evidence required to support this proposition would have to be quite strong . |
| 27 | The trap has to be quite acid before it can close . |
| 28 | The day saloon was upholstered in royal blue watered silk , the roof lined with white silk , the floor covered with Turkey carpet , laid on felt and cork so as to be quite noiseless . |
| 29 | Even systems which use lower resolution tend to be quite complex and costly . |
| 30 | This , too , confused Mary , who — privately — sensed the Colonel to be quite other than this enthusiasm for theology indicated . |