Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] very [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Princess , I realized , did not think very highly of the King . |
| 2 | However , this condensation has been bought at a price : developments at Imperial College are often not placed very fully within the context of the British educational scene . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So er I mean the power of the gentry just moved very rapidly towards the , the power of the peasants in a |
| 6 | In practice , the SAM can not look very deeply below the surface of an object . |
| 7 | Not the least of these is that this does not square very well with the way to is learned by children . |
| 8 | As inevitably occurs when abstract semantic properties are posited independently of form and then forms sought which express these properties , however , the binding hierarchy explanation , while offering some significant observations , does not square very well with the full range of data from actual language use . |
| 9 | ‘ For most people that has not been a problem — the pay-as-you-earn system already deals very simply with the tax affairs of some 16 million employees . |
| 10 | A concept of knowing well which rejects stereotyping can not move very far from the experience which generates the knowledge . |
| 11 | The order is normally deposited very near to the last day , the reason being that this allows of last-minute alterations . |
| 12 | If Fordism in production did not develop very fully in the UK , can it really be said to have ‘ dominated ’ the economy and society ? |
| 13 | The manifestation of the sex beast in florid form does not happen very often in the media , but the coverage is consistently geared up to sponsoring the arrival of the sex fiend on the national scene . |
| 14 | The library thus grew very slowly until the mid-nineteenth century , when the Treasury injected additional funding for book purchases , and the Botanical Society of Edinburgh ( now the Botanical Society of Scotland ) very generously donated its library of one thousand volumes of books and journals . |
| 15 | ( In this paper I can not go very far into the available wealth of fact and conjecture in the neurophysiology of language , psycholinguistic theories of language acquisition , and comparative studies of man and other primates . |
| 16 | The onus thus falls very heavily on the doctor , who may in fact have to persuade the parents to allow the child to live ; this would be the case if a life-saving operation is involved . |
| 17 | The ICS showed , that while , as we have seen , domestic violence was a considerable problem , comprising an estimated 22 per cent of all assaults in the borough , it was one usually not taken very seriously by the police . |
| 18 | Nigel Barnes had Kate Kennett as a tutor , but he did not get very far with the evaluative work : |
| 19 | Nagy and his coworkers have shown that the bitumen did not travel very far from the heat source before solidifying , so it did not move the uraninite away from the reactor site . |
| 20 | It does not last very long in the aquarium , but while it lasts it produces a very attractive erect rosette . |
| 21 | Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins . |
| 22 | Another way of putting this is that if we impose the restriction that by adding X and Z together to form a single variable ( X + Z ) , and carry out the regression : if β 1 really is equal to β 2 in the process generating Y t then the estimates of β and β 1 from equation ( 3.20 ) , in a large sample , should not differ very much from the estimates from equation ( 3.19 ) . |
| 23 | Also I have always felt very strongly against the cutting down of trees , and as a teenager in Holland , I started a campaign against the destruction of woodlands for a motorway . ’ |
| 24 | It is at variance with the unwritten law of our party system ; and there is no clearer statute in that unwritten law than the rule that party claims should always weigh very heavily in the disposal of the highest appointments … |
| 25 | ‘ He always worked very hard on the training pitch when he was at Tottenham , but he did n't always have that bit of luck a keeper sometimes needs . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , we are down-to one box and they always go very well in the winter ; anything with liquorice in , like that . ’ |
| 27 | Throughout his life Picasso always reacted very directly to the stimulus of events in his day-to-day life , and the acquisition of two fragments of antiquity from his native land must undoubtedly have fired his imagination . |
| 28 | Whether that process would take place clearly depended very much on the texts to which the tunes were put , and the way the songs were performed . |
| 29 | The colour of apple also blended very beautifully with the lighter tones of the burr black walnut . |
| 30 | So Kalmu was launched on a highly successful career as a shamanistic seer and miracle-worker which enabled him to acquire both wealth and power and hence to compensate very effectively for the severe disabilities under which he laboured on account of his low caste origins . |