Example sentences of "[be] very [adj] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-help groups can be very useful and ideally every physician caring for diabetics should have access to a person skilled in helping people to rid themselves of the smoking habit . |
| 2 | Initially the quantity expected to be eaten should be very small and gradually the amount increased up to a normal portion for the age of the child . |
| 3 | The pupil is very large and only a portion of the iris is present , so the eye appears dark in colour . |
| 4 | In the case of a planet N is very large and therefore a considerably larger quantity of volatiles can be acquired by the planet by this means than it could acquire by capturing gases directly from the PFM . |
| 5 | Her hair 's very straight and just an ordinary brown . |
| 6 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the former test and the current test are very similar and indeed the ‘ guidelines ’ laid down by the two Acts are the same . |
| 8 | However a problem is that these nuclei are very small and only a few manage to collide and fuse . |
| 9 | Francis de Sales , a great Christian writer , used to say : ‘ Half an hour 's daily listening is essential except when you are very busy and then a full hour is necessary . ’ |
| 10 | Land prices there are very high and so the land is used intensively . |
| 11 | The human relationships are very intense and therefore the learning curve is accelerated . |
| 12 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |