Example sentences of "to very [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a principle which is now honoured in the breach , most notably in the power extended to police officers to issue instructions to prevent an apprehended breach of the peace , a power which apparently is subject to very little effective judicial scrutiny or control . |
| 2 | As a consequence of its scope , its vague wording , and its proposed method of enforcement , which was mainly civil , it applied to very little business conduct and was , as discussed earlier , more suitable for the prosecution of labour and small businessmen than large manufacturers . |
| 3 | For instance , there are examples of children with very low levels of vision in terms of measured acuity who use what vision they have remarkably effectively for learning , whilst there are others , less motivated , who use a higher recorded level of acuity apparently to very little effect in day-to-day tasks . |
| 4 | The trade papers were always including references to experiments of this sort but it was obvious that these many initiatives came to very little . |
| 5 | Both sides were using a great deal of laser energy to very little effect . |
| 6 | I am sure I took great pains with you , alas , but to very little purpose . |
| 7 | Excitation within a d-d band may lead to very little resonance Raman enhancement , and indeed for some species with inversion centers it has been found that the Raman bands are weaker than in the normal Raman spectrum when excited by light in the absorption profile of a d-d band . |
| 8 | Indeed , despite the academic controversy that surrounds the problem of interpreting the applicability and nature of section 5 of the Civil Evidence Act , it has given rise to very little directly relevant case law . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd like to very much . ’ |
| 10 | Initially this will not amount to very much , but as you increase your distance you will need to step up your intake more . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd like to very much . |
| 12 | Three reasons , I guess , but none of them amount to very much . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd like to very much , ma'am , ’ she said . |
| 14 | The prospect of seeing and hearing a genuine Bf 109 in the air is quite exciting and something I look forward to very much . |
| 15 | Perhaps it did not in truth add up to very much . |
| 16 | However , since these latter categories were derived from lay ‘ common-sense ’ belief 's rather than the scientific rigour they advocated so much ( see Wolfgang , 1960 ; and Garland , 1985a ) , their specific reformative recommendations tended not to amount to very much either . |
| 17 | ‘ I would like to very much , ’ said Alice , ‘ but nobody has invited me yet . ’ |
| 18 | I should like to very much . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd like to very much . |
| 20 | ‘ In a way I would like to very much . |
| 21 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |
| 22 | It spent er very little and the federal government 's er expenditures really did n't amount to , to very much at all . |
| 23 | I hope to see some of you at either the Aston Clinton Weekend in April , the Working with Elderly Day in May or on the trip to Coburg , which I am looking forward to very much . |
| 24 | Where they have retraining , but it did n't amount to very much . |
| 25 | erm we 're not expecting to see a huge amount of discounting in the summer months , so erm because the capacity that was on the market this year is going to very much match the demand from customers |
| 26 | What the APU science teams have assessed is actually a fairly forward-looking kind of school science , but it is still of little relevance or interest to very many youngsters in Britain . |
| 27 | Professor Dowd , as he liked to be called — and who cut his hair and trimmed his beard to look just like President Lincoln — probably never travelled to the Pacific , nor to very many other places outside America ; but he had an abiding interest in his country 's enormous and burgeoning railway system , and from that fascination grew a scheme which changed the world — and particularly the Pacific — for ever . |
| 28 | But whatever the differences between them , what is common to very many lone mothers is the importance of state social policy in determining their lives . |
| 29 | As her swing got better and better , so she revealed an attitude and inner calm which are not given to very many . |
| 30 | At least it was n't known to , to very many people at that time . |