Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This implies that a trade-off between unemployment and inflation may exist only in the very short term . |
| 2 | When Talbot returned to the bridge he could see the marker buoy just astern , bobbing gently in the very small wake Van Gelder was creating as he edged the Ariadne gently to the north-west . |
| 3 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 4 | The early campaigns seem to continue through to the very different style used today . |
| 5 | To Pamela 's surprise , the corners of Jan 's pretty mouth lifted fractionally in the very early stages of a smile . |
| 6 | We may also assume that thereafter the police officers abstained , as was their duty under Code C , from conducting any further interviews with the applicant in relation to the offence with which he had been charged , save perhaps in the very limited respects permitted by Code C , to which I shall later refer . |
| 7 | Mozart seems to have begun to refine his style of composition , and two of them at least stand well with the very popular symphonies of the next decade — the Symphony in G Minor , K.183/173dB , written in October 1773 just after his return from Vienna , and the Symphony in A major , K.201/186a , written in April the following year ( see PLATE IV and 19 & 20 ) . |
| 8 | As shown even by the very simple models here , narrowly-defined self-interest can be self-defeating once there is more than one ‘ player ’ . |
| 9 | I suggested that the insistent gaze , the awareness of detail , were of the kind we associate with love or hate , while the persistent emphasis on traps or limits that can never be crossed belonged rather with the very different forces of pity or fear . |
| 10 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 11 | I mentioned in my original article that at its upper end the Minuet spills over into the very fast dance the Viennese called a ‘ Deutsche ’ or ‘ Teutch ’ ( Mozart : ‘ Teitsch ’ ) . |
| 12 | It should be receptive to pressures for changes in its structure to take account of what oppressed groups say — for instance , it should move away from the very formalized committee structure towards a participative workshop-type framework . |
| 13 | Your use of paint varies enormously from the very thin to the highly impastoed . |
| 14 | Your use of paint varies enormously from the very thin to the highly impastoed . |
| 15 | As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking . |
| 16 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 17 | In brief , then , EC countries currently enjoy only a limited degree of monetary autonomy and this applies only to the very short run . |
| 18 | The National ( or Conservative ) majority of 425 seats in October 1931 was reduced only to the very substantial one of 247 in November 1935 . |
| 19 | But if predictability broke down in the very strong gravitational fields in the big bang , it could also break down whenever a star collapsed . |
| 20 | This policy has not , however , become universal , and the sale of council houses in particular has been conducted in a way that is creating ghetto areas of very poor public housing , populated largely by the very old , the unemployed and single mothers on welfare . |
| 21 | Her legs were long and elongated further by the very high heels which she wore . |
| 22 | By the time the taxi driver pulled up outside the very normal house in the very normal street in one of the suburbs of Nice she had pretty much convinced herself that she was slowly going insane . |
| 23 | The detail of the proposals on contributions was , of course , fully set out in the very full statement that I made to the House by way of a written answer at the same time as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's autumn statement on 6 November . |
| 24 | But he adds : ‘ We would expect the French economy to remain relatively weak for at least the next year because its main trading partner , Germany , is itself entering what is likely to be quite a painful economic slowdown , brought about by the very high interest rates . ’ |
| 25 | Using everyday objects , basic scientific principles can be explained even to the very young . |
| 26 | So , Jess was chauffeur driven to The Belfry while his girlfriend went home with the very nice man from the AA in the recovery truck . |
| 27 | I went across the course to the stands side to see the horses in the paddock , and then I went up to the very comfy Tribune des Dames , for which the French Racing Authorities so generously send me a badge each year . |
| 28 | The trade of elephant catching and training is likely to die out in the very near future . |
| 29 | However , a B II site at this junction can be ruled out by the very high chemical shift of the associated phosphate . |
| 30 | Taken together with the very large percentage of investment in heavy industry held by foreign interests , this presented a formidable obstacle to the emergence of a politically powerful business lobby . |