Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , despite all the pejorative remarks and many statements along the lines of ‘ I personally do not think very highly of headhunters ’ , most accept fully that the headhunting business in Britain is here to stay . |
| 2 | The Princess , I realized , did not think very highly of the King . |
| 3 | Before we make any radical changes such as doing away with jury trials , should we not think very carefully indeed ? |
| 4 | It only works , in fact , partly because people do not eat very much and partly because most of the work , the energy needed to fire the bullock , is not coming from wheat , it is coming from food that is not directly available to man . |
| 5 | ( Including information about job characteristics improved the extent to which pay variance within the sexes was explained , but it did not explain very much more of the gap between the sexes since men and women in apparently similar sorts of jobs were being paid at different rates . ) |
| 6 | The human mind does not adapt very quickly to these changes in style , but if the thing is carefully prepared then eventually it will be understood . |
| 7 | The rates of rape , armed robbery , etc would probably not fall very much . |
| 8 | Oddly enough , although they are younger than the rugose corals , the aragonite composing them does not preserve very well , and it is easier to find beautifully preserved examples of the older Rugosa . |
| 9 | Under use conditions even durable screen printed markings do not survive very long . |
| 10 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When Diana became patron of the Welsh National Opera , one of the original five patronages she took on when she became Princess of Wales , she confessed that she did not know very much about opera — and that her principal love was ballet . |
| 13 | His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well . |
| 14 | It has something to do with the extent of a pupil 's knowledge ; for example , anyone giving 50 feet as the height of a door can not know very much about the size of a foot . |
| 15 | She went into the corridor , hurrying as though she did not know very well that she was simply being transferred to another waiting chair , that the urgency of their voices bore no relation to the speed of their , or anyway her , movements . |
| 16 | She did not know very much about the Dark Ireland ; she thought no one knew very much . |
| 17 | There is little point in trying to transmit a professional 's " feel " for something to a parent who is anxious about his or her child 's education but does not know very much about the intricacies of teaching and learning . |
| 18 | Mr Hull made it clear that he did not know very much about the paintings and that he was not an expert in them . |
| 19 | They would probably not bring very much bear meat at all , because Lugh was not especially partial to bear meat , but it would have looked odd to say this . |
| 20 | She did not expect very much . |
| 21 | If the story has gone through to printing the PRO 's stock will be even lower and he should not expect very good coverage in the future . |
| 22 | This would not matter very much ( for it would always be possible for individual candidates to prove the expectation wrong ) , if it were not for the fact that whole papers in the final examination , or certain questions on papers , are to be ‘ differentiated ’ . |
| 23 | If the only reading you ever do is the occasional novel or glossy magazine , then the speed at which you read Probably does not matter very much to you . |
| 24 | ( Kelly 's more sophisticated approach gives figures between about 5 per cent and 10 per cent E. ) In a way it does not matter very much if our figure is not very accurate because it is seldom or never reached when testing real materials in bulk . |
| 25 | Whether Pope John quite saw the inevitable implications of his great démarche when , in 1959 , he announced the calling of a general Council , does not matter very much . |
| 26 | As far as this subject is concerned and the age of child you are teaching , it does not matter very much if you can draw or paint or not . |
| 27 | Ultimately , it does not matter very much what arguments are used to reject evidence : the point is that all possible post hoc arguments must be marshalled to defend one 's position against other scholars : the more arguments that can be used , the better . |
| 28 | It does not matter very much what people believe ; what they will do will be determined by the requirements of the economic base . |
| 29 | It does not matter very much which interests run the state , they will always act in the interests of the preservation of the capitalist mode of production . |
| 30 | It may not matter very much what claims the Association makes for itself but one would hope that co-operation and not confrontation is to be its approach , and the making of false claims can only antagonise the Law . |