Sentence examples for instead of being quite from inspiring English sources

For example, a footprint on the beach has sand particles compressed together below a volume containing air only, instead of being quite evenly (randomly) spread over the volume occupied by the compressed and empty parts.

"I learnt a lot from the quarter-finals, I was quite nervous in that - but instead of being quite scary, the crowd really supported me, so I went out and just loved every minute," she commented.

They are laughing instead of really being quite shy, so it has really brought them out.

One program that provided stipends to offset lost income to the family due to a child attending school instead of working was quite successful.

First, he said, the project had to overcome political corruption and Robert Moses, the powerful parks commissioner who held sway over the city's Planning Commission, and who had allied himself with Greyhound, which did not want to see the construction of the terminal; instead it was quite happy to keep its terminal near Herald Square.

Instead, she was quite critical of the decision.

Why don't you give us seven episodes instead?" Which was quite a vote of confidence.

Instead, there was quite intense peaks of acid C = O linkages in the region of 1,717 cm−1; it indicated the presence of carboxyl groups.

The possible polymorphism documented here suggests that fixation of DMIs may instead be quite slow, implying roughly neutral fixation of alleles.

Instead, it is quite gripping.

Instead, it's quite a delicate thing.