Example sentences of "[prep] very [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development is about to take off , there is a promise of the electrification of the rail network link with , progress on the trunk road is now a firm promise and it 's likely that we shall have er er the trolley buses running in after very many years . |
| 2 | Full and distended after very few mouthfuls |
| 3 | Lincoln Brower has shown that birds learn to avoid aposematic prey after very few ‘ trials ’ ( usually less than five ) , while Mariam Rothschild at Cambridge University has produced clear evidence that birds remember for many months to associate particular colour patterns in prey , with distasteful experiences . |
| 4 | It may be scholarly to give many references to work done in the 18th century and to plumb the depths of graph theory , but the result is not going to be of very much help to a working chemist . |
| 5 | Ants can create a structured society without being possessed , individually , of very much by way of brain . |
| 6 | The story which is ideal for the Sunday Telegraph may not be of very much interest to The News of the World . |
| 7 | It did n't get me out of very much , except a few guard duties and er I collected one stripe , and then two , and I did the pay and all sorts of things . |
| 8 | However , the temperature today at the base of the Cytherean exosphere rarely exceeds about 300 K , which is too low for the thermal escape of very much hydrogen even over 4600 Ma , and chemical escape might not make a lot of difference . |
| 9 | Again the dubious regard — it seemed I was n't sure of very much . |
| 10 | Lady Selvedge allowed herself to be led on to the platform and was introduced in a short speech by Mark , who found himself unable to think of very much to say about her , confused as he was by the talk of ‘ high principles ’ , cocktail parties , and her former husband 's misdeeds which he remembered having with Sophia and Penelope . |
| 11 | I start from a position of very much respecting the fact that the hon. Member for Gateshead , East was a Member of the European Parliament for 10 years before becoming a Member of this House and I recognise the expertise that she has acquired in this subject . |
| 12 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 13 | But is n't it sort of very much an view , you know this that this is the theory for justification for the , their policy or was it theoretical erm ? |
| 14 | Hydrogen you can think of very much as a fuel in the manner of north sea gas and it 's got a high calorific value , it burns well and , despite rumours , it 's actually a very safe fuel as well . |
| 15 | Objects disappear , and for a man of 29 he seems to have grabbed hold of very little of anything except a glass and a book . |
| 16 | ‘ But , sweety pie , I am — what 's it you keep saying ? — a bear of very little brain . ’ |
| 17 | I can think of very little more boring than lying on the floor and doing sit-ups and leg lifts every morning . |
| 18 | Substances afford matter of very little general knowledge ; and the bare contemplation of their abstract ideas , will carry us but a very little way in the search of truth and certainty . |
| 19 | He was told : ‘ We try to keep the panelling for three years , to get it thoroughly seasoned while other wood is dried artificially if required before it has time to get seasoned … we use chiefly mahogany , oak and walnut , a vast amount of teak — one of the most useful woods in railway construction — sycamore ; yellow deal for partitions , roofs and floors ; elm we find of very little use , but we are now very partial to Padouk wood [ from South Australia ] , though the workmen do n't like it much on account of its toughness ’ . |
| 20 | Second-hand beliefs are not much help in the real world and adolescents who merely assent to what they are taught will find those beliefs of very little use when serious problems of life arise . |
| 21 | Surely accountants should be seeking to give their clients value for money and if the audit of a small company is deemed to be of very little value , then how can we in all conscience — justify the charging of substantial fees for such a service . |
| 22 | In fact the different Greek roots for the Devil in the Septuagint — diabolos/apollyon — are of very little importance , for what emerges is the concept of the Devil as the supreme Evil One , the Dark Power . |
| 23 | She never bothered to write to her husband while he was away , husbands being regarded as of very little importance , except as sources of money . |
| 24 | Even were descriptions of the relationship between LAD operations and specific aspects of language functioning to emerge , it seems likely that they would be highly abstract and therefore of very little value in planning therapy . |
| 25 | Robert Sharpe , for example , quotes from a major review by the toxicologists Zbinden and Flury-Roversi : ‘ For the recognition of the symptomatology of acute poisoning in man , and for the determination of the human lethal dose , the LD50 is of very little value ’ ( 1989 : 104 ) . |
| 26 | The debate has been conducted on the basis of very little evidence . |
| 27 | Her data provides us , in fact , with evidence of very little comparative value . |
| 28 | Philip had opened the proceedings by again suggesting an exchange of conquests , but Richard opposed this , arguing that this would mean that he gave up lands , including the Quercy , which brought him an annual revenue of a thousand marks or more , in return for estates in Berry which , though they were fiefs belonging to Aquitaine , were in fact held by other lords and so were of very little direct financial benefit to him . |
| 29 | In the cavalry skirmishes against Kalmyk , Kirgiz or Mongol horsemen , who almost lived in the saddle and were ‘ a numerous , highly manoeuvrable and well armed foe , a serious and dangerous enemy ’ , Russian firepower proved of very little advantage . |
| 30 | Such an undertaking must have been of very little value . |