Example sentences of "[prep] [art] very [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But except for the very largest corporations with the most extensive resources , the majority of organisations have seen the wisdom — and overall cost-benefit — of bringing in outside experts when required . |
| 2 | Our experienced editors comb the publishers ' lists continually for the very best books for children — of all ages . |
| 3 | But when due allowance has been made for the very various functions of castles , as administrative and social as well as military centres , it remains true that they were formidable military weapons , and that some of the most remarkable technological advances of the twelfth century were made in the improvement of siege engines and of a castle 's defences . |
| 4 | This is noticeable when short term goals can be identified and seen to be worth reaching and may well account for the very impressive efforts by schools in agricultural , sports and music competitions . |
| 5 | Separate designs were evolved for the very different conditions of forest and savannah . |
| 6 | First , it is difficult to account for the very different forms of state intervention and political representation if one follows the instrumentalist position , and it is also difficult to explain how it is that the whole capitalist system coheres and is reproduced if the capitalists do not control and dominate the bureaucratic and political levers of the state , as modern instrumentalists now accept . |
| 7 | How the heavy seeds of goat 's rue become so widely dispersed is a mystery ; nor is there a satisfactory explanation for the very large numbers of Michaelmas daisies . |
| 8 | From this point onward , all of Joan 's turns ( except for the very short ones of the " m-hm " variety ) show at least one identifiably Creole feature . |
| 9 | Similarly a young Russian diplomat , serving in a junior post in London during the very first years of the twentieth century , found that the embassy possessed only one typewriter , and that so old that it was difficult to use . |
| 10 | One of my colleagues in the billet during the very early days at Halton was known as Buster . |
| 11 | But in more robust days , you would have been more likely to come upon a coven up there , since the summit of La Rhune was one of several places in the Basque lands where witches were held to convene during the very ugly years of persecution early in the seventeenth century — then it was , according to the local inquisitors , that English and Scottish travellers arriving by sea in Bordeaux saw veritable armies of devils making their way towards south-western France . |
| 12 | Wooden models , primitive in design as the very first toys of all , of two men hammering in turn on an anvil . |
| 13 | The way that the WO population projections are undertaken means that patterns of recent behaviour ( such as the very high levels of in-migration experienced in the mid/late 1980s ) are projected forward without question . |
| 14 | What had been recognized was a kind of mismatch between the very different elements in the work of services for families and children , and the unhelpfulness of the legalistic and adversarial approach to most of this work . |
| 15 | ‘ We spoke about the very good relationships between our Churches in Britain and I spoke about our foundation under John Wesley , with the links between personal piety and the search for righteousness in social justice We spoke about these things linking our two Churches together at quite a deep level . |
| 16 | So if we could determine how many primordial black holes there are now , we would learn a lot about the very early stages of the universe . |
| 17 | Even if the search for primordial black holes proves negative , as it seems it may , it will still give us important information about the very early stages of the universe . |
| 18 | ‘ As soon as I am rich I mean to engage some of the very finest artists in their respective lines to paint figures into the landscapes , but these must be of a large size , and if executed in a superior manner will find many admirers ’ . |
| 19 | We have some of the very finest schools to be found anywhere in the world — but we also have many which are simply unacceptable . ’ |
| 20 | Not only was he one of the very rare examples of a writer who produced great work in more than one genre , but in a career which spanned nearly 60 years , his talent had developed from traditional Victorian fiction to innovative 20th century poetry . |
| 21 | We found that the length of time transported chickens spent in this catatonic state matched that which researchers elsewhere have shown to be typical of the very highest levels of fear . |
| 22 | Significantly enough one of the very earliest uses of the term ‘ postmodern ’ , dating from the time of the Second World War , was that of Arnold Toynbee in his A Study of History . |
| 23 | Note that each list gives just a few of the very many uses of the techniques concerned in mathematics learning . |
| 24 | The categories of speech and thought presentation are perhaps the most significant contributions made by stylistics to the understanding of narrative fiction , adding depth to the analysis of narrative point of view , and enabling precise analysis of the very subtle movements between commentary and focalisation in the narrative voice . |
| 25 | We could not grow CTL to 1s6 from all B53-positive donors during the low transmission season for malaria but , as previous work suggested , detectable CTL to P. falciparum may be relatively short-lived in the absence of boosting , and low precursor frequencies may be common because of the very small numbers of hepatocytes infected by each sporozoite inoculum . |
| 26 | In fact it 's sometimes said that it 's one of the very great privileges of the public is that they can , by dint of writing something , and putting it in an envelope with a stamp on it , get it to arrive on an editor 's desk , and have the editor at least give a cursory glance if not a more serious glance at what 's going on , so it 's a privilege and it 's an opportunity in that case . |
| 27 | He had already done some painting in Vienna and it had shown in some of the very early exhibitions at Euston Road School . |
| 28 | We are delighted that Scottish Opera have cast Jean Rigby in the leading role — she is one of the very best exponents in the world today of that extraordinarily demanding role . |
| 29 | Open the shutters at the Bucintoro and you open up to some of the very best views of Venice . |
| 30 | In 1958 , Mr and Mrs Mummery decided they would try to import some stock of the very best blood-lines into Australia . |