Example sentences of "it [verb] quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For someone determined to make money from an early age , it represents quite a failure . |
| 2 | It is not necessary to reach agreement with Dr Bryan 's moral scheme in order to see that it involves quite a different moral emphasis from that projected on to the 1930s by post-war nostalgia . |
| 3 | Of course it became quite a game searching for pairs of initials but I do n't remember finding Alfred 's once . ’ |
| 4 | It made quite an impression on me . |
| 5 | It created quite a stir on the camp when they left , as it was decided they would take all their ground crews with them in gliders . |
| 6 | For years I bet that mind you it looks quite a newish one that one and son . |
| 7 | Cos it looks quite a decent reasonable bungalow . |
| 8 | On the higher literary level it rubbished quite a bit of Hardy and much of D.H.Lawrence . |
| 9 | This neglected village has not done much to draw attention to its grand literary connections , though it has quite a prepossessing seventeenth-century church with a delightful octagonal tower and a two-storey cloister . |
| 10 | what it does to our economy , whether people can afford this that and the other , but surely it has quite a considerable social impact on people 's lives being unemployed ? |
| 11 | The distribution of points in it contains quite a lot of information , but the basic clustering algorithm will lose it because this algorithm will lump all the points into a single cluster . |
| 12 | Please help yourself it contains quite a lot of er information leaflets and whatnot . |
| 13 | It caused quite a sensation in the camp and people were flocking down from far and wide to have a good view , so we were informed later . |
| 14 | And I think it it caused quite a lot of hassle and difficulty for people with young children . |
| 15 | Finding it caused quite a stir in the brass band world . |
| 16 | It is not too awful to be confronted with people cleverer than oneself ( in science journalism it happens quite a lot ) but it is intolerable to share the world with people who apparently are party to bodies of knowledge and ways of thinking that make all one 's own ideas seem petty . |
| 17 | You know , it happens quite a few times , does n't it ? |
| 18 | I mean , I think it , I think it says quite a lot about our society . |
| 19 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 20 | He made it sound quite an ordinary request and I did n't like to ask why . |
| 21 | When Eva took some of her black students to play the tambourine at a big meeting in Salisbury it raised quite a few eyebrows and temperatures . |
| 22 | It varies quite a lot . |
| 23 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 24 | It takes quite a bit of practice to orientate and get the right position for the shot , and this is something worthwhile perfecting during the winter or when you are just flying locally . |
| 25 | Indeed , it takes quite a wise person to be sufficiently aware that they have a problem to seek professional help . |
| 26 | But it takes quite a time for the liquid to solidify and the glass to splinter and fragment . |
| 27 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 28 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |
| 29 | And if you could get here by half past seven those of you who have got items , it 'll be much appreciated cos it takes quite a time to set them out . |
| 30 | It takes quite a while to organise each festival . |