Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is , is , is , yes , is there another element to this though , that what in , in your new more difficult military situation you need to mobilize the mass of support behind you , which er essentially means mobilizing the poor peasants is it possible that within the May the fourth directive , although the poor could have done much better , they need not necessarily do very much better . |
| 2 | The chances are that , if you were all given a lot of time to write each essay without your notes and you just sat at a desk and had about three hours on each question , you 'd all do very well . |
| 3 | The one per cent drop in interest rates will only give very minor help . |
| 4 | Generally receivers will only give very limited warranties and trustees and personal representatives will insist on their liability being limited to the extent of the trust fund or estate . |
| 5 | ‘ Then you 'd better keep very still , had n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | Despite the claims by many that advanced levels of technological development somehow lead to democracy and scientific thought , the ‘ advanced ’ states of the modern world would not necessarily emerge very favourably from a comparison of degrees of historical ‘ objectivity ’ , however defined . |
| 7 | The most vicious can suddenly look very prim when assuming the role of the victim . |
| 8 | Sometimes she could be quite sharp and critical , and then , when he was about to give up all hope that she would ever accept one of his frequent proposals of marriage , she would suddenly become very affectionate , even allow him to kiss her . |
| 9 | Erm I I I would obviously take very seriously the N R A responsibilities but I think you 've got to bear in mind there 's within the water act , there 's a thing called infrastructure charges |
| 10 | By the end of the week I was still having the occasional fake nightmare , I would suddenly go very quiet and shivery every now and again , but I was eating more or less normally and could answer most questions quite happily . |
| 11 | With the money economy spreading extremely slowly , he could only centralize very limited financial resources . |
| 12 | ‘ Friends are always telling me to put my prices up , but I enjoy painting people , like bishops , who could n't necessarily afford very much more , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Erm , I can only talk very generally about that . |
| 14 | Rather , people fear and stigmatise fairly specific things , people and conditions , even though they may admittedly know very little about them . |
| 15 | But then if Lubavitch is right and the messianic age is upon us , the criticisms will scarcely matter very much . |
| 16 | As spouses and relatives and friends of their age move away , or die , old people look more and more to their few surviving relatives and neighbours for affection , friendship and reassurance and can easily become very dependent on a small number of people for social contact . |
| 17 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 18 | These chemical reactions would normally proceed very slowly were it not for Nature 's invention of complex molecules called enzymes , which we have also met before in this chapter . |
| 19 | Now let me just add very quickly here , I am not going to tell you or anyone that I got the best out of Bomber Command . |
| 20 | Yeah you can just say very nice something . |
| 21 | N. Dallas currently being produced in America and a newcomer N. Yuh Ling are both lovely shades of pink and will eventually become very popular . |
| 22 | She had a gang of friends in which he was included , even if he did still feel very much the outsider . |
| 23 | ( However you can still work very well with a one , two or three button mouse . ) |
| 24 | It 's too hot and it would n't be good for you and you would hardly look very impressive with a great bandage twined round your ankle like the beginnings of a mummifying session . ’ |
| 25 | It is tempting to write ‘ If I had my way , I 'd fire all the staff and start all over again ’ , but top management does n't usually look very kindly on this kind of approach . |
| 26 | Professional models do not always look very convincing in a factory or a highly technical laboratory . |
| 27 | It is at variance with the unwritten law of our party system ; and there is no clearer statute in that unwritten law than the rule that party claims should always weigh very heavily in the disposal of the highest appointments … |
| 28 | Hutson really has n't reached the heights that he promised , but should still sell very well . |
| 29 | All at the end you do is losing your voice and , and if you do n't get your way , then you it up louder and louder and louder and if you do n't get your way you may have to back down then and the aggressive person backing down to sort of a submissive does n't always hold very much credibility . |
| 30 | Cureton unfortunately does not always write very clearly , especially in the theoretical chapters . |