Example sentences of "[conj] very [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retributivism thus fits in well with our commonsense intuitions which insist that it is indeed morally relevant whether the person punished has behaved well , badly or very badly in the past . |
| 2 | So , if you enjoy sunbathing , a couple of hours first thing , or very late in the day will be better for your skin . |
| 3 | You feel that very strongly in the introduction to your book , your recent social history |
| 4 | Perhaps all that it is safe to say in this context is that very commonly around the world one finds an unfossiliferous quartzite conformably below fossiliferous Lower Cambrian and unconformably above a great variety of Precambrian rocks . |
| 5 | So it is not surprising that his interest developed from driving them very fast and very skilfully to the point where he now heads a business specialising in accident repairs and coachbuilding with a turnover in the region of £7.5 million . |
| 6 | We can then see that such areas have developed fairly recently , and very largely at the expense of man-made landscapes . |
| 7 | And very importantly to the accountant , the way that we can ensure that we maintain the integrity of the accounting data , is by exploiting checksum techniques in the database to ensure that the only valid way of u of updating the accounting data is through the accounting application and that 's it 's therefore properly secure and properly audit trailed . |
| 8 | Like Svidrigailov , Kirillov comes to the fore very late and very fast in the process of composition , but unlike Crime and Punishment 's self-slaughterer the man in The Possessed parades an entire philosophy and theology of suicide . |
| 9 | He did not sleep , and very early in the morning , before anyone was awake , he quietly unlocked the shop door and left the house . |
| 10 | Subject-based curriculum programmes thrust in very insistently and very early in the game . |
| 11 | The works of Horace , particularly the Odes , have been used by generation after literary generation , in quotation , in allusion , in imitations , in thematic borrowings , and very commonly in the kind of translation process here called " Englishing " . |
| 12 | Still twenty-four , and presenting himself to Louise Colet as a fellow of infinite whim , he claims that he has thought long and very seriously about the idea of becoming a bandit in Smyrna . |
| 13 | This cost factor alone has brought the power of a computer for storing , retrieving and processing information quickly and very efficiently to the wealth of small businesses and professions who previously could not even have considered computerisation . |
| 14 | A caesarean section is the ultimate answer to many calving problems but according to Mr Barwise-Munro : ‘ It 's still regarded by farmers as a last resort and very often by the time the vet is called , the cow has been left too long with the result that she has to be culled . |
| 15 | HERE WE are at Pontin 's Ambient Holiday Camp — motto , book early and very quietly in the background . |
| 16 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 17 | Until very late in the day , the possibility of their downfall does not seem to have occurred to Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu , any more than it had to Zhivkov or Honecker . |
| 18 | Clark ( 1990 ) has recently referred to the ‘ myth ’ of the Anglo-Norman scribe and has collected a large number of comments from early in the century up until very recently from the work of distinguished scholars , in which attested forms are typically said to be ‘ Anglo-Norman ’ and therefore rejected . |
| 19 | that what a child takes from his or her school depends very little upon the quality of the school experience itself but very greatly on the nature of the pupil 's intelligence and family and community background . |