Example sentences of "it is quite a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite a hefty spade , with bicycle-type handlebars and a sprung lever at the rear , which you step on to activate it . |
| 2 | It is quite a commitment on behalf of the owner . |
| 3 | On one level , it is quite a good joke in the decade of Brecht 's Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan to be relishing the washing-up scene in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the decade of Sartre 's La Nausée and ( as far as English publication was concerned ) Joyce 's Ulysses , to be whooping with delight at the reprint of Adventures of Tom Pippin by Roland Zuiz . |
| 4 | But it is quite a coincidence . |
| 5 | It is quite a shock to move from this charming , if slightly aimless stuff back into the original cacophonous maelstrom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even so it is quite a rarity for the commander of an army formation voluntarily to suggest coming under the command of the RAF . |
| 8 | If the tests are negative at the time of the initial examination , it is quite a good idea to ask the doctor whether he thinks there is likely to be any infection present or what he believes your symptoms are due to . |
| 9 | It is quite a different matter to begin to eat before one 's companions at a table over which Grace is about to be pronounced . |
| 10 | ‘ It is quite a rare model and only three or four others exist in this country and one or two in Australia . |
| 11 | Teacher : You can do the puzzle very quickly and it is quite a hard one . |
| 12 | Usually found around the edge of the forest close to open countryside , you are more likely to hear the loud laughing call of the green woodpecker than see it , as it is quite a shy bird . |
| 13 | It is quite a commitment and I can understand anyone having misgivings . |
| 14 | Actually , they probably believe it is quite a lot . |
| 15 | Though it is a sensitive plant , it is quite a good one to grow , as once established it will develop into a sturdy cluster which will last for many years . |
| 16 | ‘ Although we consolidate using spreadsheets at the moment , we find that it is quite a lot of hard work , ’ says finance director Mark Nabakov . |
| 17 | It is quite a different matter to produce a weekly or daily paper aimed at the widest possible audience , with the aim of informing it about national and local , as well as African and international , news . |
| 18 | I do sometimes get asked how many machines I 've had and although I have n't actually counted them up , you will see that it is quite a few ! ! |
| 19 | A GINGER ( Zingiber officinale ) grows into a very handsome , three-foot-high conservatory or house plant , with yellow-green flowers with a purple , yellow-striped lip , but it is quite a shy flowerer . |
| 20 | Surely Bentham would want to say that they should have sought their pleasure in other ways which would , in fact , have been equivalent , but it is quite a problem to say what is meant by ‘ equivalent ’ here . |
| 21 | Whatever uses it may serve within descriptive linguistics , and there is clearly some advantage in dividing up and abstracting fields of study for specific purposes , it is quite a different matter to then take such abstract categories as ‘ language-systems ’ rather than language uses as the basis for cross-cultural comparison , particularly when what is being compared is such a socially charged concept as ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 22 | It is quite a lesson to find that without continuo yet with authentically detached string-style , plus ponderous accentuation , this sounds even slower than such a modern-style performer as Bernstein ( DG ) , who at a similar speed makes the melody soar . |
| 23 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 24 | That may sound a little daunting , but it is quite a natural possibility , known to the mathematician as a Hilbert space . |
| 25 | It is quite a good idea to take along samples to a radio interview . |
| 26 | Well it 's , it is quite a long way |
| 27 | In that sense it is quite a deterministic theory . |
| 28 | You 're already wearing your moustache and wig and glasses and you have clip-on sunshades over the lenses because it is quite a bright day . |
| 29 | It is quite a normal procedure , and for two mothers who had quite easy births , having these stitches had been the worst thing about it . |
| 30 | It is quite a new thing ; what can we do with such an opposition as this ? ’ |