Example sentences of "very [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very rarely a dead animal or plant fossilizes , and it is then sometimes possible to see progressive stages in an animal arms race a little more directly . |
| 2 | At the very most a purchaser may be prepared to accept responsibility only for liabilities arising in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 3 | Sure enough before very long a show record was broken . |
| 4 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 5 | The whole feel of the song She 's Got It Bad is very obviously a nod in James Brown 's direction , and Shaun 's bassline is a vital part of this . |
| 6 | A pregnant woman is very obviously a different shape from her non-pregnant sister , and the beauty of a young girl has quite another quality from that of a mature woman . |
| 7 | But acting and all that it means is very much a doing thing , so the emphasis is always on practical work . |
| 8 | Acting is very much a physical business . |
| 9 | Rosaline is very much a match for Berowne ; this is her last challenge to him , at a moment in the play when death has blown all comedy away . |
| 10 | In the semi-finals Miss Lockhart , very much a hard hitting baseline player , went on to defeat No. 3 seed Lindsay Nimmo in a very close battle , while Nina Topper defeated Maggie Laughton 7–5 6–2 . |
| 11 | ‘ On the question of regality , it 's very much a characteristic , her feeling how important she is . |
| 12 | This is very much a generational problem . |
| 13 | It was very much a brash young man 's piece — I was 24 when I wrote it . |
| 14 | Golf on the Continent in the 1920s was very much a pastime for the rich , whereas in Britain professionals were employed by clubs as low-paid servants : across the Channel they were regarded as the social equals of the members they served , by virtue of their skill at the game . |
| 15 | It was very much a revenge match for White — Spijkers had beaten him for a bronze in the Seoul Olympics , though then White was injured . |
| 16 | It is very much a case of caveat emptor . |
| 17 | Under a female Prime Minister in 1989 , Britain was still very much a man 's world . |
| 18 | The landscape of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is very much a country of the mind , drawing on many of the ideas found in the pages of the anthropologists whom he catalogued as folklore experts in 1924 . |
| 19 | Harry 's return to the sources at wishwood seems very much a return to the Frazenan wood , when |
| 20 | They were showing a film , The Life of Christ , and though this was clearly an illusion as well it had taken place in real life , and uncle was very much a believer . |
| 21 | Following General Douglas MacArthur 's initial victories the change in the nature of the Korean operation was very much a British initiative . |
| 22 | Food was still rationed and it was very much a question of making the best use of available resources and we had absolutely unlimited demand — a very false situation as it turned out when you think about what happened to British industry afterwards . |
| 23 | Oslo is very much a capital city . |
| 24 | Wexford , very much a countryman at heart , marvelled that the townsman calls grass green when in reality it is as many-coloured as Joseph 's coat . |
| 25 | The business of turning bark into stoppers is very much a cottage industry , apart from a few modern factories . |
| 26 | They are very much a two-career couple and , although the work overlaps from time to time , they have two very distinct careers , which take them in different directions . |
| 27 | As he explained in Urbino , ‘ These sketches are very much a part of myself and I am sure those who paint themselves will understand how hard it is to part with something into which , when inspired , you have poured your heart and soul . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Compounding the problem is that , compared with German manufacturing , we 're still very much a sweatshop sort of industry . |
| 29 | Gloucestershire will go into 1990 , hoping for improved results on the field , with a new resolve — and very much a new look . |
| 30 | SELL-THROUGH , as the retail sector of the video market is obscurely known , is at the moment very much a bull market , and there has lately been a growing shift to releasing more recent movies in this way . |