Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to make a successful television career , Sue Lawley has had to tread a very careful path of being acceptable ( mainly to men ) as both a woman and a ‘ professional ’ . |
| 2 | This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units . |
| 3 | Santa Cruz has to date kept a very low profile in Japan , although it has had a product available on NEC 9800 series personal computers for some years . |
| 4 | In fact , the 1959 Act has worked to secure a very large measure of freedom in Britain for the written word . |
| 5 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
| 6 | Joseph Needham 's only indexed reference to dreaming in ancient China is tantalizingly brief : Oneiromancy , or prognostication by dreams , was also practised in China , as in most ancient civilisations , though it can hardly be said to have taken a very important place there . |
| 7 | The Palisade units produced by Forest Fencing are individually machine turned to give a very neat appearance . |
| 8 | ‘ You seem to have adopted a very cynical viewpoint , Matthew . ’ |
| 9 | If he had been asked what Roland Michell was , he would have had to give a very different answer . |
| 10 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 11 | When I tell him that Fairfax seems to have played a very big part in Claudia 's life , he does n't see any problem . |
| 12 | You 've got to have a sharp brain to work out the tactics and you 've got to have a very good technique , so it 's a demanding sport . |
| 13 | I think you need a lot of knowledge , especially nowadays when they 're insisting on all this national curriculum , you 've got to have a very broad ability . |
| 14 | And really and truly you 've got to have a very big piece of ground to need one of those have n't you ? |
| 15 | A further dilemma may arise when the individual whom professionals are trying to help has a very different interpretation of his or her circumstances , aspirations and prospects from those of relatives , or where the individual is suspicious and distrustful and does not want even close family to know what has happened to him or her . |
| 16 | There have been one or two stories about youngsters who 've become reached a very high level in mathematics , for example . |
| 17 | There have been one or two stories about youngsters who 've become reached a very high level in mathematics , for example . |
| 18 | English is the language of aviation and our native tongue , but some of the people we were trying to teach had a very poor comprehension of the language . |
| 19 | We 've continued to keep a very hard view of the corn exchange and a number of other bodies which we fund , but we 're going to see what actually happens , we 're not going to make blind predictions about savings without actually going into the facts . |
| 20 | The risk is that the Turks , who 've begun to develop a very active policy , will try to grab the northern part of Iraq . |
| 21 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 22 | Roxburgh said : ‘ The four players I 've mentioned form a very experienced backbone for me to put the flesh on . |
| 23 | and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two |
| 24 | The philosophies we have described do exert a very real influence on the shaping of penal systems and penal practices , but none of the various schools of thought has ever been totally dominant , even at the height of its popularity . |