Example sentences of "of a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was caused by a combination of a very strong gust and the fact that no one was keeping the nose down while the glider was being towed into wind . |
| 2 | there is a deep feeling that academic training gets between a policeman and his knowing and getting the respect of the crude masses of a very crude , very egalitarian and anti-intellectual European race … the police have indeed a general belief that they know more psychology than academics . |
| 3 | With limited space , it is unavoidable that I can provide only a summary of the work of a very active Association , but I thought your readers would be interested to know that schools are not being neglected . |
| 4 | And Shriver 's match against the two-time Wimbledon Junior Champion , Andrea Strnadova was also of a very high standard . |
| 5 | The spectrum was that of a very distant galaxy with redshift of 2.3 ( spectral lines shifted in wavelengths towards the red by 230% ) . |
| 6 | Weekend conference and seminar and study group , doctoral dissertations , and communally compiled working papers toward another Annotated Index — we may agree , as I do , that in present historical conditions these are the best or the only ways of responding to the achievement of a very great , though of course imperfect , poet . |
| 7 | The editor of The Criterion , from 1923 and more insistently from 1926 , revealed himself as a writer with indeed a message , of a very bleak and uncompromising sort , affronting at almost every point the suppositions of secular liberalism . |
| 8 | If you compare the transport of PCBs with that of a 5,000-gallon tanker of petrol , or liquid petroleum gas — or any of the hazardous chemicals which are routinely trundling about our roads — PCBs are of a very low order of toxicity or risk . |
| 9 | He admits : ‘ I am a Catholic of a very marginal , demythologised kind … |
| 10 | The company secretary of a very well known firm in Yeovil , Somerset ( he prefers to remain anonymous ) was yesterday spotted emptying the contents of the office 's hole punchers . |
| 11 | Renko takes his pleasure with her on the floor of a very small cabin — his only good break in a grim round of murders and chilblains . |
| 12 | This will be so particularly in the case of goods which are of a very low price , so that there is little income barrier to their purchase . |
| 13 | As I lay in the ditch I was suddenly conscious of a very strong indescribably sickly smell . |
| 14 | Six residents are currently living there and enjoying the comforts of a very homely atmosphere . |
| 15 | The author says in the Foreward that this is the story of a very ordinary RAF General Duties Officer and Pilot . |
| 16 | It 's about thirty people , really that of a very small central overhead , certainly when spread around a company with £1.8bn of sales . |
| 17 | Though there is little doubt that all these aspects of the State are valuable and important , it has also become clear that they can form the basis of a very one-sided picture . |
| 18 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 19 | In the case of the work of the Mexican Alberto Gironella , the reason would seem to be precisely because of his insistent concentration on art of a very different category — that of Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , particularly court portraiture . |
| 20 | But as a sufferer of a very severe form of diabetes , 34-year-old Philippa has had to struggle not to let her illness take over her life . |
| 21 | Following only a little chaos , much speedy uncoupling and in-ramping , and a very occasional one-sided angry conversation between ‘ Staff ’ and a couple of luckless young sappers , the aim was achieved , and shortly after the break of a glorious dawn , each rig ran the Union Flag up its mast in honour of a very rare occasion . |
| 22 | The main British medical facility , manned by B Squadron , consisted of a very large plastic tent supplied by the Dutch authorities . |
| 23 | They may be modified , but often this is not feasible , causing new structures of a very different kind to be erected . |
| 24 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 25 | Mid you know , ’ he asked Phil , who had been trying to solicit his help all morning in the writing of a very important letter , ‘ That cancer can start as a little discoloration — even a tiny wart or mole ? |
| 26 | Meanwhile the flood of letters of a very different sort from anxious Hong Kong citizens to this and every other newspaper office continues . |
| 27 | An Abbey spokesman said it was common practice to advise that a parent 's name should be put first for an account of a very small child . |
| 28 | Stephen 's feisty Yorkshire wife Sally ( Jan Francis ) thereafter is harried by the accountant 's heavies , while the accountant ( James Grout ) is being hounded by a second set of heavies on the track of a very expensive painting . |
| 29 | It is the end of a very long era . |
| 30 | Cultivated gentlemen could , with the help of a very good builder , sometimes get by with a minimum of help from the architect , for these books provided inspiration , theory and practical guidance . |