Example sentences of "very [adv] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and very importantly is er , a list of instructions on how to use it , in order to erm , update it for the current month . |
| 2 | Very rarely is the message sent that exciting young females could be scientists or technologists . |
| 3 | But while dilution of a national curriculum to the lowest common denominator of the poor , isolated rural school is clearly ludicrous , the reality must be faced that poor rural schools exist in large numbers and that a curriculum policy needs to be framed with them in mind — which it very rarely is . |
| 4 | She stands 162 in her socks , broad in the shoulder and the hip , and weighs about 60k at 1g , which she very rarely is . |
| 5 | Very rarely is there more than one species of wasp involved with any particular fig species , an exception being F. ottoniirolia , apparently visited by different wasp species in forest and in open country in West Africa . |
| 6 | ‘ Because , my darling , it very rarely is , ’ he told her huskily , trailing his fingers over her soft , yielding flesh . |
| 7 | Since workers made unemployed in general find themselves worse off receiving unemployment benefits than they were when working , we can say that only very rarely is full compensation ever paid . |
| 8 | Very badly is my verdict . |
| 9 | What it does do very obviously is to construct a narrative , and a very readable one . |
| 10 | No it is n't , because I think if you , what you can do very very easily is assess those that are a likely on jurisdictional grounds to be rejected . |
| 11 | But the fact AMV is now sitting very prettily is as much down to good luck as good management , some say . |
| 12 | It 's not moving very quickly is it . |
| 13 | You were saying that the , the reason why the multinationals sell coffee very cheaply is that they buy in bulk . |
| 14 | It very nearly is us : as personal and as deeply embedded as childhood memories of Christmas or school terms . |
| 15 | What comes through very clearly is that your testers have a very strong anti-Ford , anti-Escort bias . |
| 16 | And I think the point the graph makes very clearly is that the eighty nine based set up here at least in my view , to fit far better to what has been happening than eighty five based set . |
| 17 | Very slightly is n't it ? |
| 18 | With the Ahlbergs ' books , it very often is . |
| 19 | If there is to be a fairly detailed piece of note writing it very often is a fairly near or an exact copy of something that 's already gone before . |
| 20 | As George Hickes wrote in May 1687 , in reference to the Magdalen College affair , " non r[esistance] is always a duty , and noncomp[liance] very often is " . |
| 21 | erm I think the problem about sport and art in this country very often is that the amateur is over-regarded and the professional 's under-regarded , and as Geoffrey rightly said , erm underfinanced on a national level . |
| 22 | What they highlight very sharply is the importance of very careful scrutiny of the ways in which girls and black pupils are portrayed as problems . |
| 23 | ‘ What 's happened in the last 10 years and is accelerating very fast is the fact the women are taking less time off ’ , says Michaels . |
| 24 | The reason unforgiving strategies do n't do very well is that they ca n't break out of runs of mutual recrimination , even when their opponent is ‘ remorseful ’ . |
| 25 | And anyway — ’ Clare sat again , holding the book still before her face but looking over it at Caro ’ — It 's all very well is n't it , being the gracious model of womanhood , with a tribe of servants around you . |
| 26 | Yes , well , yeah , but he 's a , he 's not walking very well is he ? |
| 27 | The only tha disaster I know very well is the Tay one the Tay Tay Bridge . |
| 28 | huh , I could n't believe it , I mean he 's been that thick and she says how old are you and he says thirty five , when she 's gone , when he 's gone she said blimey I thought he was forty five did n't ya ? , she said yeah , I said he ai n't wearing very well is he ? , then this woman come in and she was , she 'd had an operation and one of her stitches had n't dissolved and she said I have a shower instead of a bath , perhaps that 's why and Sue says yes that 's why because you need water to dissolve a stitch , so any way she said to her how old are you , she says thirty seven and Sue says |
| 29 | She 's doing very well is n't she ? |
| 30 | But I know , fair play she 's doing very well is n't she ? |