Example sentences of "it 's quite [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm thanks very much for the directions er you gave me , it 's quite awkward coming off the main road there cos you really have |
| 2 | It gets a bi it gives her one less to , er it 's quite traumatic having to give out the news . |
| 3 | It 's quite normal to do that , . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's quite normal to tire quickly on the slopes . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's quite normal to try to discover who has written the — valentine . |
| 6 | A simple structure for the plot interest and also , or possibly it 's quite nice to include a little bit of humour . |
| 7 | it 's quite nice suppose your gardener does it . |
| 8 | It 's quite nice to get checked out and then , to know that everything 's alright or thin , that anything that 's wrong can |
| 9 | It 's quite nice to have people here . |
| 10 | It 's quite nice to know in an emergency , if there 's a phone ringing , say in your boss ' boss ' office , or , you know , in a colleague 's colleague 's office , or something like that , that you want to answer , you do n't want to let ring and ring and ring , and you know the extension number quite well , then use it . |
| 11 | They reckon it 's quite cheap to go there or something |
| 12 | And it 's quite possible to arrange for demonstrations of suitable equipment to be given to you , is it ? |
| 13 | There are a few additions to the original game which add a little spice to the proceedings , and it 's quite possible to waste an hour before you realise it . |
| 14 | ‘ If you do n't know Venice well it 's quite possible to get lost even in broad daylight , and , as you do n't speak Italian … ’ |
| 15 | It 's quite comfy to lay on it . . |
| 16 | Add to that our unfortunate preference for foreign goods rather than our own ( 25 per cent of what we spend as consumers is on imported products ) and it 's quite easy to see why the UK manufacturing base has become so fragile . |
| 17 | It 's quite easy to see where clichés come from . |
| 18 | The ideal is for me to stop out here on me own because , if I go into a unit or something and stop , it 's quite easy to go straight back on the gear . |
| 19 | [ There was discrimination ] not directly , but in subtle ways , like when you 're choosing your options , no matter what you 're doing there 's always a group where you can do cookery or needlework , but if you 're doing physics you have to put that down , and that means that you ca n't do something else that you might want to do , like history or something ; you 've got to make a positive choice to do science whereas it 's quite easy to drift into doing history and things like that . |
| 20 | It 's quite easy to do this without spending a fortune |
| 21 | It 's quite easy to do this without spending a fortune , ’ she says . |
| 22 | That 's , that 's Now when you 've got an A squared minus B squared , you can factorize that I mean you could just do that on your calculator , and do it in one go , but it 's quite easy to do it as three point O one . |
| 23 | a way of remembering index numbers , your name , because if someone goes to you S O it 's quite easy to forget it , but if someone said sierra oscar , an hour later you 'd go what was that ? what was that ? |
| 24 | We get one or two people who perhaps get er psychosis or paranoia from using it very regularly , but most people seem to be able to use it without too many difficulties , er amphetamines are probably the next most common drug , and that 's probably because it 's manufactured quite locally , er it 's quite easy to make , it 's quite cheap , and it 's very popular , particularly among the younger age group . |
| 25 | It 's quite easy to build the arch , however , if you are allowed to subtract stones as well as add them . |
| 26 | and you , it 's quite easy to switch your mind on you know |
| 27 | It 's quite easy to get to £50 a week just for basic essentials like stable and grazing rental , bedding and feed . |
| 28 | Another thing , it 's quite easy to get mixed up . |
| 29 | It 's quite easy to find — just go down the road by the river — no , not towards the station , the other way — it 's only a mile or so . |
| 30 | Visually it 's quite easy to identify the model 's Dad as Fender 's Jaguar guitar ; the body outline is very similar to the Jaguar , with that distinctive ‘ leant forward ’ look caused by the pulled-back lower bout , offset waist , longish top horn and distinctive stubbed lower horn . |