Example sentences of "very [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It , it is n't being approached very vigorously at the moment , er in a general sense because of two things .
2 If the tail swings very vigorously from side to side it usually means that the animal is about to attack , if it can summon up that last ounce of aggression .
3 Will income tax cuts wipe out the memory and the lasting experience of a wider indirect tax burden , which hits not just the very worst off , but those precious C2s , hardest ?
4 Therefore I do n't mind him hearing the very worst about my past .
5 He brought out the very worst in her , she realised numbly .
6 Two years later he built Hinderton , which faintly resembles a French château mixed very weakly with a Scottish manse .
7 Second CBP100 appears to bind quite specifically with CREB since it interacts only very weakly with the highly homologous ATF1 .
8 SO 2 absorbs strongly between 180 and 235nm , weakly between 260 to 340nm and very weakly between 340 to 390 nm .
9 A human touch was added to Nash 's report : ‘ I could heartily wish more respect were paid to the remains of this amiable though unfortunate Queen , and would willingly , with proper leave , have them wrapt in another sheet of lead and coffin , and decently interred in some proper place , that at least after her death her body might remain in peace ; whereas the Chapel where she now lies is used for the keeping of rabbits , which make holes and scratch very indecently about her Royal corpse . ’
10 He stood back then , and let her go , and she mounted the first flight , and the second , planting her fashionable square heels firmly on the beautiful old wood , which was austerely and very properly without covering , and recorded her movements accurately for anyone listening below .
11 Earlier this year , however , the state minister for primary industries , Dr Kang Yaik , had been reported as saying that there had been a " phenomenal " increase in production and that there was no need to for reductions because " exploitation is carried out very properly on a sustainable yield basis " .
12 Both arbitration and litigation have an independent existence beyond any specific application , because they can be used very widely for all kinds of dispute resolution .
13 The consultation er , that the document was sent out very , very widely to District Councils , to voluntary organizations , and throughout the county , the consultation process was extended until the end of December , er , replies are now in , and I believe there 's , there 's around a dozen of them .
14 The contract army thus extended responsibility for military recruitment very widely through society , and the many knights who brought a handful of men-at-arms and archers were as important an element in the make-up of the contract army as the retainers of the magnate himself .
15 Largely as a legacy of empire , the English language has spread very widely across the world .
16 The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country .
17 None the less diffuse benefits from conservation accruing over a long-time horizon and targeted very widely among the rural population are poor candidates for adoption and funding .
18 However , hormonal levels may very widely from person to person , just as metabolic rate may .
19 This situation was not , until very recently , deplored very widely by anyone but some librarians .
20 It is a fundamental point about the aged , and one that is applicable to any group of people who need special help , that they will differ very widely in their capacities and in their needs .
21 They are used very widely in language learning .
22 It worked on every other occasion when it was tried both th north and south and was used very widely in the republic in the past to behead the terrorist organizations .
23 The term ‘ ancient monument ’ is defined very widely in the 1913 Act , and it is defined even more widely in the Act of 1979 .
24 It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato .
25 One example which springs to mind very powerfully at the moment is the notion of organisation charts and the ubiquitous phrase ‘ senior management team ’ .
26 Cooper 's theme of the dying-out of the Mohican tribe is somewhat muted although it emerges very powerfully in the finale , and the whole Indian business is somewhat sidetracked by the romance , the spectacle and , most of all , the chase .
27 Specialist skills , apart from technology/computerization , did not figure very highly or very uniformly in responses , perhaps because it is felt that these are widely catered for already .
28 She said , call me Mara , for the Lord , the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me .
29 And Naomi makes the mistake , do not call me pleasant , call me bitter for the almighty has dealt very bitterly with me .
30 Also , in the context of Helm and Smith 's ( 1987 ) case for local government , ‘ The notion that central government can make judgements about local ‘ overspending ’ sits very uneasily with the rationale for decentralising redistributive functions to local governments in the first place' ( p. xix ) .
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