Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] is quite " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm brighter on the side which is furthest away from us , and the fact that he 's er , he or she , is eating a , you know a piece of fruit or something is quite appealing . |
| 2 | Players with impeccable amateur records have struggled to make a living as professionals and no-one is quite sure why . |
| 3 | This provides a mechanism that buffers skews in adult sex ratio and which is quite distinct from Fisher 's principle and allied mechanisms for the primary sex ratio . |
| 4 | By unity of type is meant that fundamental agreement in structure which we see in organic beings of the same class , and which is quite independent of their habits of life . |
| 5 | In the meantime , 1991 is also the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising and nobody is quite sure what to do about that either . |
| 6 | Novelist Graham Roos , 26 , who has known Antonia for eight years , said : ‘ She comes from a cosmopolitan background and she is quite sophisticated . |
| 7 | I have been over her story several times and she is quite positive that she saw Monsieur Erdle walking towards the belvedere at about half past nine , although she is unable to state the precise hour . |
| 8 | There is a bus stop just outside the hotel and there is quite a frequent service into the centre of Brno . |
| 9 | Our library girl has been through our cuttings and there is quite a lot about you . |
| 10 | And there is quite a lot of growth in employment in gardening centres at the moment . |
| 11 | Not that it 's much anyway , but it 's , it 's , there is a difference , and there is this pride of getting there , being one of the first six to get there , and there is quite a lot of competition , I can assure you . |
| 12 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 13 | And he is quite adamant about one thing — the paper was his idea , whatever anybody else involved with News on Sunday may claim . |
| 14 | If he can ‘ pick and choose ’ , I suggest , he is not a citizen , he does not have full political status and he is quite distinguishable on these grounds alone from the adults around him who do not have this option . |
| 15 | And he is quite right . |
| 16 | Yet every now and again a student emerges who shows exceptional talent and it is quite natural that a drama school will make sure that his/her ability is given a good stretch in public with a major role , perhaps playing Hamlet or Hedda Gabler . |
| 17 | Hawksmoor , who had already had a great deal of experience as an architect , was brought in as clerk of works and it is quite likely that the design was by both men . |
| 18 | Most sailing schools do run to these standards and it is quite rate to find one that does n't . |
| 19 | A Minority Government will hardly be able to deal with the situation , and it is quite possible that Your Majesty might be asked to approve of a National Government . |
| 20 | Football has become the focus for a new kind of identity for working-class male youth and it is quite possible that other forms of sport — cricket for instance — will be similarly used . |
| 21 | This is not the stuff of which marriages are made , and it is quite clear that if United do not improve what Celtic consider to be a derisory offer for the Scotland captain , who has made 50 international appearances , there will be no union . |
| 22 | In the main I would say these tend to be addressed to parents , doctors or well-meaning teachers , carers , etc. , and it is quite difficult to find a book which talks to you , the anorexic/bulimic/compulsive eater . |
| 23 | Weeds and shrubs grow rapidly in the damp soils of the site , and it is quite a problem to keep the growth in check each summer . |
| 24 | They seem to flourish where there is a lot of moisture , and it is quite common to find a coincidental vaginal infection with a marked discharge . |
| 25 | Even less is known about the usefulness of books which are located and borrowed , and it is quite likely that many of the titles thought to have answered a subject enquiry are not in fact found by the reader to be very useful at all . |
| 26 | Coyote and fox scat concentrations are used for this purpose , and it is quite common to find mustelid scats from weasels or martens deposited along walls or roads which mark the edge of individual ranges ( Lockie , 1966 ; MacDonald , 1979 ) . |
| 27 | This is startling stuff until its context is taken into account : the source of this passage is Paul 's work on the lex Iulia et Papia , and it is quite evident from that that Paul intended no general statement , and could with justice complain about his remarks being taken out of context . |
| 28 | The antiquarian , Stukeley , noted it in 1740 , and it is quite possible that knowledge of this never died out locally . |
| 29 | The moratorium lasts until 1990 and it is quite likely to continue after that date , although minke whales may be hunted again . |
| 30 | Teacher : You can do the puzzle very quickly and it is quite a hard one . |