Example sentences of "very [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good Man , very jolly decent nice Man . |
| 2 | Used to have to be very rather experienced in them days to do this here net mending . |
| 3 | But his daughter proves to have been very properly ill-at-ease among its dazzling lights , long corridors , great staircases and phalanxes of ladies ' maids ; that his second wife should revel in them is an indication of her moral inferiority . |
| 4 | This course is very widely available and it is pitched at the right level for the medical teacher . |
| 5 | There is limited choice for the national advertiser in cinema — 60 seconds is more or less standard , though 30-second spots are used ; in magazines full pages , DPSs , halves and quarters ; in newspapers full pages , and , depending on whether the paper is broadsheet or tabloid , 35 cm × 6 , 25 cm × 4 , 15 cm × 2 are very widely used sizes : on TV , 30-second spots dominate , with 20-second and 10-second spots becoming more popular ; in posters , 4-sheets are still most common . |
| 6 | This speeds request handling but greatly increases the work area size needed , particularly if a very widely used descriptor is the first to be cited in the retrieval request . |
| 7 | In this classification Morgan , and Engels after him , were following a very widely accepted schema of their time which , as we have seen , had already been used , albeit somewhat differently , by Marx . |
| 8 | Algorithms of this sort are very widely applicable . |
| 9 | There is a message from Cardinal Hume , and there are five definitions of the word ‘ feminisim ’ by five contributors of very widely different opinions . |
| 10 | Other synthetic polymers are chemically rather more complicated but , elastically , apparently not very widely different . |
| 11 | I do n't know whether he got it from here , or from another source , but it 's very strikingly similar . |
| 12 | Not very strikingly gifted , but musical . |
| 13 | With the bridge pickup in expander mode the RD is more than capable of producing some very aurally uncomfortable noises . |
| 14 | What limits would be placed , and Kennedy was very acutely conscious of the big mistake that Truman had made in Korea in , in fact , seeking to extend the intervention and bringing China into the war under no circumstances must China be allowed to take that step in the case of Indo-China . |
| 15 | Their trick is to have a very loosely connected skin , so free from the underlying tissue that a sudden gripping pressure can break it away , leaving the killer with only a mouthful of the instantly shed skin . |
| 16 | At any given moment our mind is wandering into the future or into the past ; we are very rarely present in the here and now . |
| 17 | It is a very stringent rule ; it is very rarely necessary to consider transitions involving more than one electron in interpreting the electronic spectra of inorganic species . |
| 18 | Gloucestershire Ambulance Service has begun its own investigation , but points out that its drivers are trained to the highest standards and are very rarely involved in accidents . |
| 19 | According to a DCDA telephone survey four places in Stockton are said to be very rarely vacant and 21 on North Tyneside , due to be ready from April , are already subject to a long waiting list . |
| 20 | A literal rendering of an idiom is very rarely capable of serving as even an approximate translation ; it is most likely to be either uninterpretable , or quite unrelated in meaning to the original expression . |
| 21 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 22 | This is very rarely successful . |
| 23 | This is very rarely successful . |
| 24 | By contrast , open-chest compression after prolonged closed-chest compression is very rarely successful and this method should be attempted only in highly selected patients in hospital . |
| 25 | It is very rarely sufficient just to put the product on the table and expect the photographer to get on with photographing it . |
| 26 | The theme of sex fiend is very rarely evident in these cases . |
| 27 | Yes , it 's a long flight , thirteen hours , and the delay of course , well it 's a problem getting the parts … watch out for that spider , yes they do bite , but they 're very rarely fatal , no , termites are relatively harmless , you saw the mound in the garden did you ? |
| 28 | If you present the letters very rapidly , just so they could only just be detected , erm you 'd find that sometimes X and Y would be confused , whereas X and P were very rarely confused . |
| 29 | ‘ We very rarely upgraded machines before , perhaps added more memory , or reallocated old machines as a word processor , ’ he claims . |
| 30 | Erm it 's a difficult balance , change is very rarely popular and quite often it 's only ever talked about but sometimes it happens and even then it 's not popular but a balanced and open mind is required to approach change but perhaps more important , and this is n't always mentioned , suggestions about change tend to come from rather specific areas and there are rather specific interest groups which may start the process of change |