Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a very [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes if there was a certain amount of urgency due to bad weather , or perhaps a very important operation , the observations were collected over the telephone link-up , with the Met Officer in charge listening in . |
| 2 | Dealing with the guest who is in a delicate business situation or just a very bad mood all goes with the territory . |
| 3 | The production of a single cost figure per contract or even a very limited split of , say , labour , materials and expenses , is not particularly helpful to the surveying or management staff , although of course better than nothing . |
| 4 | What emerges from our discussion of these different aspects of sentence and discourse comprehension is that only a very complex model will suffice to explain the inter-relation of all the different factors which appear to form a part of language comprehension . |
| 5 | On the other hand , if the scores of the standardisation sample were such that only a very small proportion — say , 5 per cent — scored 40 or less , then a child with this score may be identified as being in need of further , more detailed assessment . |
| 6 | It is hardly encouraging that Terrace himself , whose book Nim ( 1980 ) is regarded as a classic in the field , after an exhaustive analysis of filmic evidence concluded that only a very small proportion of Nim 's gestures , in both training and free living , could reasonably be thought to have been initiated by the animal ; the vast majority were repetitions of what humans had just signed or , to a lesser extent , merely random . |
| 7 | I should like to believe — we must make this clear — that only a very small proportion of students will contribute . |
| 8 | However , financial uncertainty , a low priority attached until recently to rural schemes by the Housing Corporation and problems associated with its national-scale administration , coupled with some rural planning restrictions , have meant that only a very small number of the schemes of this and other organizations have come to fruition . |
| 9 | He knew that only a very good fighter — a much better fighter than he was could knock a man unconscious with one punch to the jaw . |
| 10 | His hands were careful and restrained , his mouth tender , and although only a very short while later , Cassie was to realize just how much self-control he had exerted at that moment of their first real physical contact , for those few minutes , she knew only that she was not afraid of him , nor even suspected that there was any need to be . |
| 11 | First recorded in 1872 , although possibly a very ancient site . |
| 12 | In fact , it does n't matter how remote , how poor is the resemblance of an insect to a stick , there must be some level of twilight , or some degree of distance away from the eye , or some degree of distraction of the predator 's attention , such that even a very good eye will be fooled by the remote resemblance . |
| 13 | Recent work has shown that even a very small amount of mesenchyme grafted in combination with endoderm , will allow morphogenesis to proceed in adult recipients . |
| 14 | The argument was that almost anything could be used in connection with cars or motoring , and so a very wide range of goods fell to be classified as motor accessories for the purposes of the section . |
| 15 | If you can not help , there will be difficulty and trouble for one of the most important families in Europe — and perhaps a very big scandal . |
| 16 | In 1977 ( more or less as in 1969 ) only 12 per cent had considered this , and only a very small proportion of these had done anything about trying to get some type of credit not actually used in the end by them . |
| 17 | The mean autocorrelation score for the random samples from this generator was 38 28 , and only a very small proportion of samples ( less than 1 in 1,000 ) scored as highly as the recorded e.p.s.p. histogram . |
| 18 | In Gorer 's study , previously referred to , about two thirds of respondents to the survey considered sexual love as " very important " in marriage , nearly one third felt it was " fairly important " and only a very small number thought it not very important or not important at all . |
| 19 | This is a very great hardship indeed , and only a very determined effort by society will ensure that the disabled achieve real acceptance and integration . |
| 20 | Tom Jones , one of his most intimate associates and normally a very shrewd observer , at first thought him very slow . |
| 21 | Firstly , the tropical belt is a large region and for marine organisms , for example , the sheer size of the available area for diversification is greater , though , as we have seen , tropical rain forest occupies only a small part of the tropical land-surface , and thus a very small fraction of the tropical global surface . |
| 22 | Skin rash coming out very slowly and possibly a very large rash ; may have a rattling cough and bronchitis . |
| 23 | A fine game and also a very vital result for Abingdon Town . |
| 24 | So be it and probably a very good thing . |
| 25 | It is a vast undertaking at considerable cost and hence a very brave venture in the current economic climate . |
| 26 | I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head . |
| 27 | Next the program or event that you are trying to time occurs and then a very similar line records the time when it comes to and end . |
| 28 | A little goes that way and then a very small amount goes that way . |
| 29 | We have written very carefully descriptive material of what is really happening in the experiment and then a very succinct set of instructions — do this , do that , turn the left hand knob . |
| 30 | It is also the acclaimed home of the Teifi coracle and indeed a very interesting Coracle Centre and Museum can be seen in the village where appropriate demonstrations are held . |