Example sentences of "[verb] very many " in BNC.
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| 1 | A female employee of one of the companies included in the report said , ‘ I do n't know very many women who 've got high up … |
| 2 | Perhaps it does because its search space contains very many goal states . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not little , ’ Ellie protested lightly , as she had protested very many times before . |
| 4 | The text of warranties has become much longer because solicitors have included very many specific warranties as well as general warranties . |
| 5 | Its body is clearly segmented but it has very many fewer divisions than the millipede . |
| 6 | It goes without saying that while all this is going on the engineering investigator will be on the look-out for any indication of a pre-crash failure or fracture of any part of the structure or aircraft components since , although the wreckage will inevitably include very many broken units and pieces of structure , any serious defect that was present before the aircraft struck the ground is likely to be significant , if not fundamental , to the cause of the accident . |
| 7 | The photos do not include very many which have not been seen before , some of them many times ; and captions are virtually innocent of any identification or discussion of the uniforms and personal equipment illustrated , which is puzzling . |
| 8 | Erm it sometimes gets a bit , runs out of memory , if if you put very many more than that in . |
| 9 | Both systems were faced with a combinatorial explosion of partial solutions since the input data matched very many rules or partial descriptions . |
| 10 | But I would n't be chairman of the bank if I 'd made very many mistakes . |
| 11 | We would ask the reader to bear in mind from the outset , however , that we write from the viewpoint of the English urban sub-culture , in which we are not only fieldworkers and observers but life members ; nevertheless , we believe that the English and American complexes of parental experience show very many points of coincidence , both historically and contemporaneously , both in the things that parents do and in the reasons for which they do them : and that , therefore , a discussion in these terms will have a validity for parent-child behaviour on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 12 | Of course , if wealth is defined in this very broad way , then we would expect very many people to possess some ; in fact the most recent figures still show very striking inequalities in wealth distribution . |
| 13 | I have never come across anything like them again , although I have n't seen very many gardens . |
| 14 | So I ca n't see very many of them coming to local people . |
| 15 | Chair , erm , every year we try and hold er , an event or something of interest to the local business community , to local industries , and we have contacts with local freight-forwarders , banks and companies that have exported , embassies , and we 're proposing that we erm , hold the event this year on the subject of exporting and how to do it , because we 've had very many small companies that might be clueless and want to know erm , exact nuts and bolts of it , so if we could run an event on that basis , and then use that event as the core of a group to take across in this case , Ireland , but perhaps in the future , Holland , who knows where else , to actually sell , using the services of erm , the Embassy in Dublin , our Embassy and the Chamber , with whom we have very good links , then it would be to the benefit of our businesses . |
| 16 | Yes thank you Mr President erm we worry about our , our stations though I do n't think we 've got very many in fact but within reach , within twenty five miles across the Channel there are probably ten or twenty French power stations that could cause just as much trouble as any of ours surely ? |
| 17 | I have n't got very many . |
| 18 | Cos I have n't got very many Ah , I 'm so tired ! |
| 19 | I ai n't got very many |
| 20 | We have n't got very many presents yet have we ? |
| 21 | He is n't selling very many , I do n't know why . |
| 22 | get very many this time . |
| 23 | She found those who had fled from Re 's anger in the desert and killed very many of them , thus gaining the name of Sekhmet , the lioness goddess of war , with whom she is here identified . |
| 24 | Evolution requires very many difficult and coordinated genetic modifications , which clearly are coterminous with , or causally related to , geophysical changes . |
| 25 | However , in practice , it normally requires very many iterations before convergence is achieved ; moreover , the process of recovering eigenvectors outlined above is apt to be ill-conditioned , and some other procedure is usually to be preferred . |
| 26 | ( Compare X , Y and Z in fig i ) — In some the progression is very rapid while in others it takes very many years and may only be triggered by an acute personal crisis such as retirement or when the children leave home ( the " empty nest syndrome " ) . |
| 27 | But once you break that down and start to have lots of small independent production companies , then you find very many larger numbers of women and everyone can choose who they want to work with . |
| 28 | Although we do n't agree with each other on every dot and comma , we do have very many common beliefs . |
| 29 | We noted in Chapter 4 that it is hard to predict which sentences will have very many overlapping interpretations , that it depends on many factors including the phonemes in the utterance , the content of the lexicon , and so on . |
| 30 | The quality of our clients perhaps could be improved , we do n't have very many large plc clients here in Manchester , the competition , er P W's and K P N G have a better or bigger let me say that , bigger er P L C client base than than we do . |