Example sentences of "[subord] very [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That very same spirit of ‘ social responsibility ’ was to flicker , albeit very briefly , even in the Daily Mail . |
| 2 | That planning process can be encapsulated , albeit very simplistically , by a three part statement : |
| 3 | Popular political memory was accumulating , albeit very slowly . |
| 4 | Two of the measures enacted by the 1986 Social Security Act had a significant impact on women by reversing the main attempts of the 1975 scheme to begin , albeit very slowly , to adjust state pensions to the economic experiences of women . |
| 5 | And we know , of course , that the Atlantic is still tearing along the dotted line down its centre , albeit very slowly in human terms . |
| 6 | He found that RNA molecules can replicate themselves spontaneously under these conditions , albeit very slowly . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , some of the more progressive suppliers are now moving down that road in some instances , albeit very gradually . |
| 8 | Again it seems probable that this experienced pilot had fallen victim to Müncheberg , who claimed one Hurricane at 1306 , reporting ‘ the fighting spirit of the British pilot was fantastic ; he tried , although very badly hit , to still attack a Ju88 ( sic ) . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , although very reluctantly . |
| 10 | Although very occasionally incomprehensible , Maria Ashcher 's translation captures the elegance and subtlety of the original . |
| 11 | ‘ Our punters , although very much the suit and tie brigade , do like a good pint . |
| 12 | Although very much the ‘ poor commons ’ paying for the most part a 5 per cent tax on their goods , they were anything but an undifferentiated whole . |
| 13 | Blyth was historically a separate place from Tyneside , although very much a part of the North East Coast . |
| 14 | Although very much a townsman , Eliot was , like G. K. Chesterton , a great advocate of country life , and he shared the attitude of many townsmen that most other people ought to live in the country . |
| 15 | Although very often his actions have little or no practical effect , they certainly succeed in raising public support . |
| 16 | The usefulness of the library to the English teacher must also not be under.emphasized , although very often " work in English " calls for only the simplest of library skills from the pupil . |
| 17 | None of the movements is less than very well done , but I do miss the blazing splendour of this conductor 's finest Bruckner with his old orchestra , none of which , alas , has made it on to CD . |
| 18 | At all events , it is difficult to see how such a gain would do more than very marginally modify the picture which has been outlined . |
| 19 | Now we 've never done anything other than very very s briefly precis |
| 20 | The only other types of credit they use more than very occasionally are trading checks or tallymen , and HP . |
| 21 | But it is obviously undesirable to have ex parte residence orders other than very occasionally . |
| 22 | The percentage of the population which attends live performances of music more than very occasionally is very small . |
| 23 | Consequently , it alone , of all our domesticated animals , has absorbed the whole attention , until very lately , of the professors of that establishment . |
| 24 | His consistent wish until very very late in his course was that all conceivable medical measures be carried out . |
| 25 | Until very late in the day , the possibility of their downfall does not seem to have occurred to Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu , any more than it had to Zhivkov or Honecker . |
| 26 | If the PB is identified as being that the child does not go to bed until very late , the most suitable way of setting a baseline is to note over a week or two the actual time the child does go to bed . |
| 27 | Until very late the previous night I had been writing about Krakatoa and trials by Fire , and was deeply asleep when the cat woke me . |
| 28 | His new habit of sleeping on and on to rid himself of as much time as possible and then of staying up drinking alone until very late only left him with none of his natural good time and hour upon hour of his bad . |
| 29 | Clark ( 1990 ) has recently referred to the ‘ myth ’ of the Anglo-Norman scribe and has collected a large number of comments from early in the century up until very recently from the work of distinguished scholars , in which attested forms are typically said to be ‘ Anglo-Norman ’ and therefore rejected . |
| 30 | They have , after all , several centuries of established methodology behind them as virtually all the documents created up until very recently indeed were all hand assembled . |