But, for such change to work, the discontent with the present must be greater than one's tolerance of it, and that's quite rare.

I think it's quite rare for coaches to be out of line.

If they are quite rare, they hardly affect the outcome of a large sample study.

It's quite rare to see people ofyour generation doing it.

At the weekend, besides the nightingale, there were two quite rare visitors there - a barred warbler and an ortolan bunting.

Despite the talk of political radicalism, she confesses that 'it's quite remarkable how little effect we had'.

A broad-based poll last week found something quite remarkable.

Referees succeed in doing this to a quite remarkable extent.

It's quite remarkable having seven goals from eight games.

He made the heroes and heroines live because he breathed his own breathless, excited, quite remarkable life into them.

Even now, having had time to digest it, it's still quite shocking.

It was quite shocking but fairly inevitable given the changes we are experiencing.

It was really quite shocking but nobody commented on it.

Both were teased to a quite shocking degree.

The concept that the grouping was intentional and permanent was quite shocking to some people.

I think we're all human beings, we're all quite similar.

We both came through at the same time, we were both in electronic groups and looked quite similar.

But it won't do to substitute one place for another just because they're probably quite similar.

You get cold, and also bored, but in a fashion that makes you realise that being cold and being bored are actually quite similar.

We clicked straight away as we're quite similar in lots of ways and how we think about things.

Most of the inventions featured are quite simple things.

It should be quite simple - grilled chicken with pasta, which gives the right level of carbs and protein.

It's quite simple, really: fitness of purpose and fidelity to materials make a design classic in any field.

In the end it all comes down to something quite simple.

It's quite simple: you just have to keep up the hard work.

But because of his own truculence, this pride was never quite straightforward.

Prepaid currency cards are quite straightforward to use.

It should not be daunting, and once you are online it can be quite straightforward.

By comparison our shows will probably seem quite straightforward.

From four to three to two - that was all quite straightforward.

For more than ten years, their records have walked a tightrope between despair and joy and you're never quite sure which side they end up.

I wasn't quite sure where he was going.

It's a natural fit - after all both are famous - but nobody's quite sure why any more.

There was one he was not quite sure about.

He's always playing politics — you are never quite sure where you stand, never quite sure what he really thinks.

One of his senior detectives described him as quite unlike the traditional image of the detective commander.

Fulmars are easily recog-nised with their variegated grey plumage and this gliding flight on stiff straight wings, quite unlike the angled wings of gulls.

That's about it, although it manages to be quite unlike anything else.

It sounds quite unlike anything he's ever done before.

Quite unlike any other boots, they permitted (and forgave) sharp movements forward - perfect for pounding bumps, landing jumps and forcing sweeping arcs in powder.

A few weeks ago, a smallish incomefocused investment trust did something really quite unusual.

If he could learn how to be a teacher he could try a different and quite unusual tactic.

It was quite unusual to see a car in those days, certainly in the villages.

His approach to motivating the students sounds quite unusual.

It must have been quite unusual at the time.

He felt quite upset about the oppression that's going on there and, in his naive mind, he thought he could go out there and help.

I gave up school, wasn't able to go out with my friends, missed most of my childhood and got quite upset about it.

I feel quite upset that it's been suggested that we misled people because that's one thing we have not done.

I looked at them again and felt quite upset.

She walked into the hotel lobby and thought one of the members of staff were making jokes about her, so she got quite upset.