Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [coord] very [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The associated but very different payment of the Census was made by monasteries that had the protection of St Peter 's vicar , the pope . |
| 2 | Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else . |
| 3 | He used the old but very effective trick of balancing a five-pound note on a club head to demonstrate how this changed the swing-weight quite significantly . |
| 4 | Only 4 miles from Blore is the old and very pretty market town of Ashbourne which boasts a cobbled square and magnificent 14th-century church . |
| 5 | The second and very obvious point that needs to be stated is that if the justices , having fulfilled their duty to make independent investigation of the terms proposed by consent , reach the initial conclusion that those terms are in some respect deficient then before imposing other terms on the parties they must indicate the nature of their departure and give all the parties a fair opportunity to make submissions on their tentative conclusion . |
| 6 | Hardy was describing in fiction the real and very harsh position that unmarried mothers from the poorer sections of society found themselves in . |
| 7 | They explored the drawing-room next — or perhaps that is too formal a name for the large and very cheerful room on the other side of the hall . |
| 8 | Once at the College we settled into the homely and very adequate accommodation before having a light snack . |
| 9 | As the next straight stretch of lane came into view , Yanto took a deep breath , held it , and with a quick twist of the throttle raced past the obnoxious but very necessary vehicle . |
| 10 | But the long and very flat strip of vines immediately to your left , which extend back to the A4 motorway , are inferior to Verzenay 's poorest vines ; these are the vineyards of Sillery . |
| 11 | The fourth and very important principle which operates in personal care is gender . |
| 12 | The Alliance for Progress reforms were absurd , given the enormous and very basic lack of educational materials available in the majority of state schools . |
| 13 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 14 | The main purpose of the exhibition ‘ Leonardo e Venezia ’ now at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice ( until 5 July ) is to display the small but very important group of Leonardo 's drawings preserved in the Accademia . |
| 15 | It would seem sensible that strategies to help Sheffield , with the recent and very sudden collapse of its steel industry , may not be able to assist Liverpool or Newcastle , where steel has never been an important industry and where decline has been long-term . |
| 16 | The main and very unsatisfying conclusion that I have reached may he expressed in the title I sometimes give to a lecture on the subject : " There 's something damn funny about the stratigraphical record " . |
| 17 | If even the Cornish Rex causes doubts and worries , then there is only one option left : the bizarre but very friendly Sphynx Cat . |
| 18 | Hodgson had already used this trick for a radio play , Sword from the Stars , to give a robot named Jones a haughty but very mechanical voice . |
| 19 | This is done by , among other things , the sharing of stories , exchange of gossip , and a friendly and very sharp banter ( at which policemen are very good ) , during which sergeants sometimes have to struggle to rise above the one-line wit and are often themselves forced to succumb ( on the use of rituals at the beginning of work in American police departments see Niederhoffer 1967 ) . |
| 20 | There is a subtle but very real difference in where you place the emphasis , and the interviewer will not then automatically make the assumption that there was something lacking in you which caused you to be made redundant . |
| 21 | Often it can be useful to select a source with a strong and very obvious bias , at least initially . |
| 22 | They march in a track of the moon , and one flat stone , shaped like a tall and very thin rhinoceros , lies between two uprights . |
| 23 | The first time she was playing marbles with Rosie in the saloon , when the double doors swung open and he appeared as if from nowhere , a tall and very upright figure , still in his colonel 's uniform . |
| 24 | It seems a strange and very unjust decision to pick Jim Courier for reasons of his present ranking but who bears no comparison in performance as a Davis Cup player and , even more surprising , as he has actually refused to play for the US team recently . |
| 25 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 26 | As well as beautiful landscapes , Yugoslavia has a lively and very distinctive sense of tradition . |
| 27 | My concern is to address a different and very specific issue . |
| 28 | This showed some recovery until 19 6 7 or 1968 , followed by a further and very sharp decline , in particular of about 50 per cent . |
| 29 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
| 30 | A further and very important advantage of this method is that it suggests a way of testing the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis itself . |