Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and very [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Hardy was describing in fiction the real and very harsh position that unmarried mothers from the poorer sections of society found themselves in .
4 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 .
5 Once at the College we settled into the homely and very adequate accommodation before having a light snack .
6 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 .
7 The Alliance for Progress reforms were absurd , given the enormous and very basic lack of educational materials available in the majority of state schools .
8 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 .
9 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 " .
10 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 ) .
11 Often it can be useful to select a source with a strong and very obvious bias , at least initially .
12 They march in a track of the moon , and one flat stone , shaped like a tall and very thin rhinoceros , lies between two uprights .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 As well as beautiful landscapes , Yugoslavia has a lively and very distinctive sense of tradition .
16 My concern is to address a different and very specific issue .
17 It gives a clear and very welcome signal to all the people in Northern Ireland of their determination to find a political solution .
18 About 20 miles out , on a deserted and very quiet country road , there was this mighty explosion and we all dived for cover .
19 She is a brave woman … a brave and very charming woman . ’
20 We ask guests to complete a short , quality-related questionnaire in return for a donation to charity , so we get a willing and very satisfactory response . ’
21 It was a premeditated and very nasty murder , and may well have been planned to throw suspicion on Harley or Jefferson . ’
22 But the book does explore the emotional effect that this major change has on a small boy 's life in a clever and very unusual way .
23 Gould , he said in his book on Taxidermy , was ‘ a zealous and very able ornithologist , now travelling in Australia , who has published some valuable , although very expensive works upon birds …
24 There is a real and very understandable temptation to regard the taught paddle strokes as correct , fixed and vitally important but this is wrong .
25 The worn crazy paving provides a soft and very unobtrusive backdrop .
26 The hall into which she stepped was not a hall at all , but a large and very high room , with doors leading off it in most directions , and it was so full of unexpected things that she found it hard to know where to look first .
27 The same hospital called me in early for a quick and very successful cataract operation ( lens implant ) , seemingly in order to treat as many patients as possible before the go-slow came into effect .
28 He was of medium height and was wearing a baggy and very creased cotton suit the colour of oatmeal .
29 Indeed , in 1781 the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote a monumental and very obscure work , The Critique of Pure Reason , in which he concluded that there were equally valid arguments both for believing that the universe had a beginning and for believing that it did not .
30 The majority of bird netting is likely to be knotted ( this produces a fine and very flexible net ) or knitted , but the thickness of the thread is likely to be more important than the type of assembly .
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