Example sentences of "[prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ No , ’ she said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 32 | She turned abruptly into the fitting-room and after a very short time reappeared , looking as perfect as if she had spent hours dressing instead of minutes . |
| 33 | And the cruise she was on at that time — well , that was to convalesce after a very serious operation , although , ’ he added wryly , ‘ she would probably kill me for mentioning it . |
| 34 | Pros : Proves indispensable after a very short time — Power Toolbox is especially nice . |
| 35 | Afterwards , there was still time for a spot of shopping and sight-seeing before embarking for home after a very enjoyable day . |
| 36 | Venous effluents collected during infusion of bile , however , did significantly ( p<0.01 ) inhibit ileal motility after a very short latency ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 37 | So , after a very busy two more terms at the Royal College in which I gave my first recital , and also had a chance of playing the Beethoven Concerto No. 4 in G major at one of the Patron 's Fund Concerts with Adrian Boult as conductor , I left the College and came up to Oxford in October 1924 . |
| 38 | Sadly widowed in 1983 after a very happy marriage , Jo has returned to her native Cotswolds and enjoys time spent with her nieces and nephews and their children . |
| 39 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 40 | It 's very satisfying after a very long investigation . |
| 41 | This was caused by a combination of a very strong gust and the fact that no one was keeping the nose down while the glider was being towed into wind . |
| 42 | there is a deep feeling that academic training gets between a policeman and his knowing and getting the respect of the crude masses of a very crude , very egalitarian and anti-intellectual European race … the police have indeed a general belief that they know more psychology than academics . |
| 43 | With limited space , it is unavoidable that I can provide only a summary of the work of a very active Association , but I thought your readers would be interested to know that schools are not being neglected . |
| 44 | And Shriver 's match against the two-time Wimbledon Junior Champion , Andrea Strnadova was also of a very high standard . |
| 45 | The spectrum was that of a very distant galaxy with redshift of 2.3 ( spectral lines shifted in wavelengths towards the red by 230% ) . |
| 46 | Weekend conference and seminar and study group , doctoral dissertations , and communally compiled working papers toward another Annotated Index — we may agree , as I do , that in present historical conditions these are the best or the only ways of responding to the achievement of a very great , though of course imperfect , poet . |
| 47 | The editor of The Criterion , from 1923 and more insistently from 1926 , revealed himself as a writer with indeed a message , of a very bleak and uncompromising sort , affronting at almost every point the suppositions of secular liberalism . |
| 48 | If you compare the transport of PCBs with that of a 5,000-gallon tanker of petrol , or liquid petroleum gas — or any of the hazardous chemicals which are routinely trundling about our roads — PCBs are of a very low order of toxicity or risk . |
| 49 | He admits : ‘ I am a Catholic of a very marginal , demythologised kind … |
| 50 | The company secretary of a very well known firm in Yeovil , Somerset ( he prefers to remain anonymous ) was yesterday spotted emptying the contents of the office 's hole punchers . |
| 51 | Renko takes his pleasure with her on the floor of a very small cabin — his only good break in a grim round of murders and chilblains . |
| 52 | This will be so particularly in the case of goods which are of a very low price , so that there is little income barrier to their purchase . |
| 53 | As I lay in the ditch I was suddenly conscious of a very strong indescribably sickly smell . |
| 54 | Six residents are currently living there and enjoying the comforts of a very homely atmosphere . |
| 55 | The author says in the Foreward that this is the story of a very ordinary RAF General Duties Officer and Pilot . |
| 56 | It 's about thirty people , really that of a very small central overhead , certainly when spread around a company with £1.8bn of sales . |
| 57 | Though there is little doubt that all these aspects of the State are valuable and important , it has also become clear that they can form the basis of a very one-sided picture . |
| 58 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 59 | In the case of the work of the Mexican Alberto Gironella , the reason would seem to be precisely because of his insistent concentration on art of a very different category — that of Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , particularly court portraiture . |
| 60 | But as a sufferer of a very severe form of diabetes , 34-year-old Philippa has had to struggle not to let her illness take over her life . |