Example sentences of "[verb] very [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1988 considerable consternation was created , not least among teachers who had generally responded very positively to the TGAT report , by the leak of a letter about the report from the Prime Minister 's secretary to Kenneth Baker 's secretary . |
| 2 | Our kirk session was one which objected very strenuously to the use seven times of the male pronoun in the section on the holy spirit . |
| 3 | The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country . |
| 4 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 5 | As you will see , definitions of this type fit very badly with the institutions that I shall presently describe . |
| 6 | But if Marxist thinkers have not , on the whole , contributed very profoundly to the study of nationalism , much the same can be said of other major sociologists . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no doubt that Ramsay 's skill in navigation and cool determination contributed very materially towards the success of a most hazardous operation . ’ |
| 8 | Sociolinguistics is most successful in explaining sex differences when it looks very carefully at the conditions of particular communities ' lives and at what the people themselves consider the most important influences on their behaviour . |
| 9 | From the back the sack looks very much like the Condor , for it has the same capacity — 60 litres expanding to 80 . |
| 10 | But the early metal bands drew very heavily upon the blues influence … |
| 11 | Snow had come very early in the year , but all of October had been so intensely cold that no one was really surprised to see such a heavy fall , although there had been no sign of it when they entered the hall . |
| 12 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 13 | If there is a need for legislation in areas of prison policy , surely this is one area that ought to be considered very quickly by the Government . |
| 14 | Fine roots grow very freely from the nodes where the root growth thickens at the lower nodes . |
| 15 | Thus state day nurseries became confined very largely to the children of poor and needy parents , often single parents . |
| 16 | The crisis is seen as being located very specifically within the prison system — it is not seen as a crisis of the whole penal system , or of the criminal justice system , let alone as a crisis of society as a whole . |
| 17 | The grasping young usurer forces him to bear very hard on the firm 's debtors and to carry all the odium that this entails . |
| 18 | Erm , and I think Economic Development are actually contributing very fairly to the problems which are facing the County Council . |
| 19 | It 's starts very quietly at the stage , there 's very little you know |
| 20 | To quote one of them ( D. M. Anderson ) , ‘ It is widely accepted that some , perhaps many , of the abiotic chemical reactions and processes leading to the origin on Earth of replicating micro-organisms occurred very early in the history of Earth in close proximity to the surfaces of clay minerals and other inorganic substrates . ’ |
| 21 | Nevertheless , there seems to be a number of factors at play in the business that correlate very closely to the forces which I see at work in broader fields . |
| 22 | The bassoon , in addition to the unison-combinations in which it figures above , blends very well with the horn without removing from the latter its distinguished quality of tone . |
| 23 | The new brick facing blends very well with the surroundings and adds to Ray and Beth Arnold 's work over several years in restoring Horderley to the appearance of a station . |
| 24 | It , it is n't being approached very vigorously at the moment , er in a general sense because of two things . |
| 25 | The responsibility for this lies very largely with the emergence of pluralism , after which elite studies would never quite be the same . |
| 26 | Yet it is interesting to read another speech , reluctantly dropped very late in the play 's completion , which both showed Christianity in some ways working with the savage world , and looked back with a different point of view to the earlier worship of a human god in the unpublished ‘ Exequy ’ poem in the Waste Land manuscripts . |
| 27 | Many Suffolk horsemen , when occasionally they took their horses to Ipswich market , rose very early in the morning — three o'clock , or even earlier — to put the finishing touches to harness they had perhaps oiled the night before , and to paint the horses ' hoofs with harness oil to make them look smart . |
| 28 | Felicity rose very deliberately from the table , walked towards him , and pressing her body close to his , kissed his lips . |
| 29 | ‘ He behaved very much like the character he was playing , and everybody treated him like the character , the young kid , ’ recalled Chuck Julian , an actor in the film who has since become a theatrical agent . |
| 30 | This analysis was presented very clearly in the Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England ( Redcliffe-Maud 1969:Ch. 3 ) , but it is there to a greater or lesser extent in all the discussions of the period ( cf. |