Example sentences of "it is quite [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is quite right that Wales have decided you should have to live and play in the country for a good few years ’ . |
| 2 | It is quite right that members sensitivities should be aired . |
| 3 | It is quite right that we should recognise the contribution that authors make to our cultural and literary life . |
| 4 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 5 | It is quite correct that children 's application for membership should be taken seriously ; once accepted there is no turning back , resignation is not an option . |
| 6 | Thus wiping and licking do not seem to require a change of state as a matter of their essential meaning , but it is quite accepted that one may be involved , so that we can have : ( 34 ) Rover licked his plate clean Wendy wiped the floor dry |
| 7 | We need not bother with the details , save to say that it is quite certain that all the contemporary accounts of Balboa 's triumph — which mention that he first saw the Pacific at 10 am on Tuesday , 25 September — are wrong . |
| 8 | It is quite certain that the poets Shakespeare , Keats , Byron and Wordsworth never saw a Hybrid Tea rose . |
| 9 | It would be quite impracticable to carry waste rock any great distance and it is quite certain that ore being produced at Coniston , was machine and hand dressed to as great a concentration as possible , before filling into strong saddle bags for the 20 mile pack-horse journey , over the mountain tops , to the Brigham smelters . |
| 10 | Thus , it is quite predictable that there should be a means of questioning the verb and the adjective taken together , as indeed there is , although this happens to be a phrasal form — what … do to … ? — rather than a single interrogative word ; cf. ( 13 ) or ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) . |
| 11 | But , if there is a further " selecting " qualifier , such as only , and if the speaker sees the latter as focusing on the property of the adjective , then it is quite reasonable that he or she may also feel it necessary to mark this focal adjectival property as one to be explicitly assigned , rather than being an ordinary part of the identificatory bundle . |
| 12 | It is quite feasible that band members will have contributed to the composition of songs in different amounts , so the income received from the band 's songs is often split to reflect this . |
| 13 | Not only were customary tenants in the West Country , for instance , powerless to resist rising fines , it is quite feasible that everywhere the land was , to a great extent , actually cultivated by leaseholders or tenants from year to year paying an economic rent . |
| 14 | The next annal in E is not until 1028 , and hence it is quite feasible that the 1025 entry has been dislocated by one or even two years . |
| 15 | He was a ghastly little tyke , but it is quite awful that he 's dead . |
| 16 | " This time it is quite impossible that you should be able to help me . " |
| 17 | It is quite possible that a number of other political changes would have got under way more recently were it not for the direct intervention of Pope John Paul II and the Vatican . |
| 18 | Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ? |
| 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 | This is because it is quite possible that the laws in both cases may be much the same . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The resources of the NVC were limited , and they were not able to survey every vegetation type in the Outer Hebrides , so it is quite possible that there are more communities present than have been recorded . |
| 23 | It is quite possible that the parents themselves will have already noted any slow reactions if they are attentive to their child 's development . |
| 24 | It is quite possible that pre-exposure to a stimulus both retards new learning about that stimulus and also establishes a memory trace of its own that interferes with any subsequently formed when recall is tested . |
| 25 | It is quite possible that all three mechanisms might operate . |
| 26 | It is quite possible that the legislation enacted to give effect to the decision ( the Interception of Communications Act 1985 ) will be the subject of another application under the Convention . |
| 27 | I believe it is quite possible that within the next few years we might see European legislation which will not only follow that of the UK in prohibiting lead fishing weights but also outlaw the use of lead in cartridges . |
| 28 | If ( admittedly , in some companies it is a big ‘ if ’ ) your employer is genuinely concerned to make sure you have a fair deal , it is quite possible that the original decision will be reversed , or at least modified , upon appeal . |
| 29 | It is quite possible that some selection factors may point towards your retention while others will , in comparison , favour colleagues . |
| 30 | ‘ It is quite possible that the corridor could fill with smoke without the detectors knowing , ’ Burray said . |