Example sentences of "[verb] very [adv] [prep] [art] [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 | Richard Moor , as Deputy Director of South East Arts , you have to work very closely with a number of people , some trained , some untrained . |
| 5 | Restored by a large steak , he explained to her as they ate that he liked to work very quickly on a murder case , pushing everyone to get an answer . |
| 6 | You should be prepared to work very hard for a pittance . |
| 7 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Riding a bike is a suitable analogy : if you have been pedalling very hard for a while you can stop pedalling and freewheel for a short distance without losing any speed . |
| 10 | As you will see , definitions of this type fit very badly with the institutions that I shall presently describe . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ There is no doubt that Ramsay 's skill in navigation and cool determination contributed very materially towards the success of a most hazardous operation . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It now looks very well in a 15in pot , staked against wind damage and regularly fed , and in its first year yielded a crop of more than 3lb of berries . |
| 15 | What is more , a Tertiary stage looks very much like a zone through Mesozoic eyes , and with Palaeozoic spectacles a Jurassic stage is at most an Ordovician zone . |
| 16 | But it still looks very much like a Saab ! |
| 17 | Thomas Blunt , the bailiff of Chaddesley Corbett 's annuity of 20 marks looks very much like a salary , similar to Thomas Solley of Hindlip 's ‘ fee of one mark for the bailiwick of Abbotsey ’ . |
| 18 | There is also a part of the Gibson building that looks very much like a hospital environment . |
| 19 | During the action of The Lord of the Rings , though , Gandalf never looks very much like an angel , or at least not one of the normal iconographic kind . |
| 20 | From the back the sack looks very much like the Condor , for it has the same capacity — 60 litres expanding to 80 . |
| 21 | But the early metal bands drew very heavily upon the blues influence … |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Only two days after meeting Julie by the Serpentine in Hyde Park matters had come very quickly to a head . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Fine roots grow very freely from the nodes where the root growth thickens at the lower nodes . |
| 27 | Thus state day nurseries became confined very largely to the children of poor and needy parents , often single parents . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The grasping young usurer forces him to bear very hard on the firm 's debtors and to carry all the odium that this entails . |
| 30 | Erm , and I think Economic Development are actually contributing very fairly to the problems which are facing the County Council . |