Example sentences of "[verb] very [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glaxo rightly points out that Astra used very high levels of ranitidine , several hundred times the normal human intake and far greater than the doses of omeprazole Astra fed to rats . |
| 2 | Such measures would need very high rates of carbon tax , raising revenues that would be roughly equivalent to a tenth of world product . |
| 3 | These effects occurred at what were previously considered very low levels of lead in blood . |
| 4 | And at times of new issues , they will often be committed to purchasing very large amounts of stock which they can only expect to sell over a period of weeks ; during which period they are exposed to the risk of capital loss if prices fall . |
| 5 | All these references , but most obviously the second and especially the third , are potentially sociological , but they involve very different kinds of analysis from the tracing of direct relations of content or of form . |
| 6 | In a joint statement , Councillor Gregory Campbell and Bill Irwin of the DUP said : ‘ The Child Poverty Action Group in Londonderry recently completed a survey of a number of estates , on of which was the Caw area , where they found very high incidences of deprivation . |
| 7 | Provide very high levels of expenditure authority for division general managers — and all other levels as well |
| 8 | Whatever may be its points of similarity to , or difference from , other countries ' villages as social institutions , it has very special qualities of picturesqueness , not of course to be confused with quaintness . |
| 9 | We would ask the reader to bear in mind from the outset , however , that we write from the viewpoint of the English urban sub-culture , in which we are not only fieldworkers and observers but life members ; nevertheless , we believe that the English and American complexes of parental experience show very many points of coincidence , both historically and contemporaneously , both in the things that parents do and in the reasons for which they do them : and that , therefore , a discussion in these terms will have a validity for parent-child behaviour on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 10 | Image capturing and processing techniques have enabled some North Sea platform designers to use electronic communication techniques for virtually instantaneous updating of multiple copies of design ‘ drawings ’ at scattered sites , thus saving very large amounts of money . |
| 11 | The grants , the of the grants of course increased over the years and the main thing about erm awards of course was to assess them and this is something which erm , I always felt a bit self conscious about because , we had this erm very comprehensive form where parents and erm , oh individuals when they were the students themselves had to complete and give very precise details of income |
| 12 | Those memories cover very complicated feelings of helplessness , the awfulness of seeing the most important person , whom you depend on for protection , in acute distress . |
| 13 | Doctors and other health workers , who went to work in the zones controlled by the FMLN during the civil war , learnt very effective forms of treatment from the peasants they worked with . |
| 14 | The areas chosen for the case studies — in Lombardy and Emilia — are intended to reflect very different patterns of modernisation ; the first , relatively slow and perhaps therefore politically stable ; the second , remarkably rapid and perhaps therefore producing class polarisation and a high level of political militance expressed through the passage from socialism to fascism , and then to communism . |
| 15 | Results have shown very low levels of infection amongst the general population , as was to be expected . |
| 16 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 17 | Surveys of dolphin tissues for mercury carried out in 1978 by Japanese scientists showed very high levels of mercury in local dolphins . |
| 18 | Moreover , if Richard discussed peace on the assumption that he would be the heir to all his father 's dominions then he may well have re-activated very real differences of opinion which had lain dormant since the spring of 1185 . |
| 19 | The Middleborough mosaic shows very few inconsistencies of style , so few in fact , that there might be no need to postulate the presence of more than one mosaicist ( section 3.5 ) . |
| 20 | The report defined the Yongbyon plant as a " radio-chemical laboratory " designed for research on separating very small quantities of uranium and plutonium as a means to control nuclear waste . |
| 21 | Field men again adopt very different standards of tolerance , depending on the nature of their patch . |
| 22 | The British Government 's accounts adopt very high levels of aggregation . |
| 23 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 24 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 25 | The intensity of the IS900-PCR signals indicated very low numbers of M paratuberculosis organisms and bore no relation to visible spheroplastic or bacillary mycobacterial growth . |
| 26 | Bearing in mind that there are probably more than 5,000 warehouses of this kind throughout the world holding very large quantities of stock between them this suggests that the risk of them catching fire is very small ; although the individual loss if one were to catch fire is considerable . |
| 27 | In these and other ways the state has favoured those companies who have displayed very high rates of investment , and this almost by definition excludes most small firms . |
| 28 | Since the late 1970s , scientists have hunted down potential human cancer agents , known as carcinogens , by feeding very high doses of suspect chemicals to mice and rats . |
| 29 | This approach requires very different kinds of investment , unlikely to save institutional funds overall , although it will shift funds towards areas such as networking infrastructure . |
| 30 | Clearly this condition will create very high levels of anxiety and in your haste you will be likely to fumble the counters or miss the jar altogether . |