Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Metro does , however , have a few little problems ; the ghastly coloured light with which the dash is illuminated , a sort of blood-shot red ; some quite nasty , outdated body styling which involves add-on , red-striped plastic strips down the sides and a central locking system which emitted a noise rather like a very small horse coughing . |
| 2 | It might be added that when text is input for phonological analysis these problems are if anything magnified , and for these purely practical reasons it was possible in , for example , the Belfast project , to use computers only in a very limited way for text processing ( as opposed to computation , where various statistical packages were extensively used ) . |
| 3 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
| 4 | Are parents really in a very strong position to influence their child 's performance in the classroom ? |
| 5 | If , in addition to posing the difficulty , he could say that there is no authority in point and that Grant 's case is distinguishable , and could also suggest some reasons why on these facts it ought to be distinguished , he would get a first class on that question instead of a very doubtful pass . |
| 6 | In ( a ) a thin strip of metal is tightly twisted to produce a hollow tube rather like a very thin drinking straw . |
| 7 | The most significant part of Grundrisse for our subject is that part which has been published separately in English under the title Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations together with a very valuable introduction by the historian E. Hobsbawm . |
| 8 | Green referred to these days later as a very happy part of his life . |
| 9 | He may not even have thought consciously of Palestine two thousand years ago as a very real place , precisely situated in space and time , subject to a confused welter of social , psychological , political , economic and religious factors — the same factors that operate in any ‘ real ’ locality , past or present . |
| 10 | — Converted approximately five years ago to a very high standard by local builders ( Builders Ede ) . |
| 11 | The Race Relations Act 1976 deals only in a very indirect way with the causes of racism and is more concerned with its effects . |
| 12 | This binding was reflected in the DNaseI footprinting experiments only by a very faint footprint , even in the presence of large amounts of F9 nuclear proteins . |
| 13 | Cut strips of peel away from the top downwards with a very sharp knife so that the orange is completely free from the white membranes of the peel . |
| 14 | In cystic fibrosis there are people who are severely ill for whom it would be justified to try treatments even at a very experimental stage . |
| 15 | You wo n't see him at that price again for a very long time . |
| 16 | In America , a sensible country , the president would expect his budget to be top of the evening news only on a very slow day . |
| 17 | He raised his eyes , morosely , as Morse took Dixon 's seat opposite him and pulled another chair alongside for a very blonde young WPC , who amongst other accomplishments was the only person in St Aldate 's HQ with a Pitman shorthand qualification for 130 w.p.m . |
| 18 | Erm what is now being proposed is a somewhat less regimented plan than we had before , if you remember there were lines of trees before in a very grid-like pattern across the marketplace . |
| 19 | Although Christianity is the ‘ state religion ’ of Britain , it is often said that the majority of people who are nominally Christian will go to a church only on a very few occasions in their lives — for a Christmas or Easter service maybe , or a family christening . |
| 20 | I am afraid this is about as much as I am going to say about magnetic materials apart from a very brief discussion of some pseudomagnetic materials ( superconductors ) in Sections 3.15 and 3.16 . |
| 21 | Some Chinese students did set up pro-democracy groups overseas on a very small scale and took some risks in doing so , facing possible arrest and imprisonment on their return to China . |
| 22 | As M3 grew so fast in the early Eighties , its performance can hardly explain the reduction in inflation , which I believe to have been caused by very high and rising unemployment together with a very large and destructive appreciation in sterling . |
| 23 | The best ingredients for a V8 Land Rover are a good SDI engine and flywheel Series II gearbox with overdrive 3 54 diffs and Range Rover type wheels with 205 x 16 tyres Take the brakes from the LWB 6 cylinder with servo and fit the whole lot together on a very sound chassis vehicle An ex-military Series 11 or lightweight would be a sound basis and could be transformed into a good vehicle ( see ads in LR0 for a guide to purchase price ) |
| 24 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 25 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 26 | We made another such excursion on to Mount Párnes , at its best season — it was still possible ( indeed it is still possible today , though more difficult ) to leave Athens and the world behind after a very few kilometres . |
| 27 | Whole LRT double deck bus painted in colour to RBG individual design , including advertising panels inside and out , enabling us to get various types of information across to a very wide audience . |
| 28 | In principle , both measurements could be taken simultaneously , but in practice the group gets its best results by recording diffraction and absorption sequentially with a very short time delay . |
| 29 | Tanucci was an innovator only to a very limited extent . |
| 30 | They saw the animal only for a very short time . ’ |