Example sentences of "quite [adj] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite possible for them to take their deferences and privileges and give rather little in return . |
| 2 | Although these sentences differ in sense , it is quite possible for them to have the same reference , and the same truth value . |
| 3 | It was quite possible for someone to start from relatively humble beginnings and work one 's way up in society through trade guild or livery company affiliation to become a member of the town council . |
| 4 | Well that may be a bit of fun , but it is quite possible for you to write in a complicated manner without realising it . |
| 5 | They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there . |
| 6 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 7 | Despite this period there was always a mass of cloud and it was quite normal for us to go down to see if one could identify some feature . |
| 8 | It was quite normal for us to find large quantities of the latter goods stowed away by crew members against the possibility of long stays in UK waters . |
| 9 | Your eagle eyes will have noticed that there is someone sitting in this room with a tape recorder , and erm , it 's it 's , should be quite interesting for you to know what he is doing . |
| 10 | It might be quite acceptable for somebody to have three packets of sweets a day , whereas I would n't . |
| 11 | And it was right for John Gummer , Minister for Agriculture , to be regularly , some might say infuriatingly , optimistic : ‘ It would be quite wrong for him to go round wringing his hands . ’ |
| 12 | Erm I 've had a gentleman on the phone this morning we have on our listings , I 'm quite interested for him to have a look at the |
| 13 | Her baby chin , her drooping petal of lower lip , her tousled mane of blonde tresses , her girlish gingham dresses with white décolletage , combined to create a look of chaste girlhood with a strong hint that she would be quite prepared for you to sully it . |
| 14 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 15 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 16 | ‘ Quite easy for you to remember , you know . |
| 17 | But Britain 's Vice-Consul Harold Jenkins told me : ‘ Sadly it may be quite impossible for them to make positive identifications . ’ |
| 18 | Obsessional neurosis is shown in the patient 's being occupied with thoughts in which he is in fact not interested , in his being aware of impulses which appear very strange to him and his being led to actions the performance of which give him no enjoyment but which it is quite impossible for him to omit . |
| 19 | Indeed it would have been quite impossible for it to have adopted any other attitude . |
| 20 | If you add that to the er problems that the government has created for this County , as with other County Councils , then the two things make it quite impossible for us to continue with a capital programme as we would like . |
| 21 | It would be quite unseemly for me to meet anyone — to socialise . |
| 22 | We learned later that he was paid an honorarium by the government in far-off Santiago , so that he was also in a sense their man in Punta Arenas , and it was , therefore , quite natural for him to cultivate us and be as helpful as possible . |
| 23 | After all , it was quite natural for him to think she admired him . |
| 24 | It was quite natural for them to challenge Jesus , especially in view of his own challenge to their authority the previous day , when he ordered out of the Temple those who had permission to trade there ( Mark 11:15–18 ) . |
| 25 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 26 | It seemed quite natural for us to end up slumped together on the ground , leaning unsteadily against each other , watching the children play while the more resilient dancers still staggered and turned in the firelight . |
| 27 | This is quite useful for you to refer to , this booklet , but do please tell your clients you 're not a doctor , it 's very much up to the client 's doctor and our medical underwriters , as to whether we pay out or not . |
| 28 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 29 | In the early periods player A's actions reveal a lot of information on its type , so it is quite credible for them to prefer to imitate the z = 0 type by reducing the absolute value of . |
| 30 | It is quite commonplace for me to thrust my hand past my ferrets , grab a rabbit by its hind legs and pull it past the ferret . |