Example sentences of "[to-vb] very [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grasping young usurer forces him to bear very hard on the firm 's debtors and to carry all the odium that this entails . |
| 2 | No-one seems to progress very far from the point at which they started , and if they try , they generally get it all wrong . |
| 3 | To write this poem , Lawrence evidently had to listen very hard to the Oxford voice . |
| 4 | His opposition to capital punishment , on the other hand , does not seem to fit very well with the principle of symbolic representation — the public execution of murderers appears to satisfy all his requirements . |
| 5 | The hole must be shaped to fit very tightly around the cage trap . |
| 6 | School and advisory staff need to look very closely at the balance of benefits and costs , for both children and teachers , in the teaching strategies and patterns of classroom organization which have been so strongly promoted in recent years . |
| 7 | I think that parliament will want to look very carefully at the proposals he makes and if parliament is not happy with those proposals then I 'm sure it will try and persuade the government to modify them . |
| 8 | Roy Hattersley , Labour 's deputy leader , said : ‘ I want to look very carefully at the idea to make sure that clubs do n't go out of business and that large families on low incomes can still go to football matches . ’ |
| 9 | But it might do well to look very carefully at the IASC 's work . |
| 10 | He says we 've actually made it clear on our planning application that we 're prepared to look very carefully at the mix and size and type of housing to ensure it fits what local people need in the area . |
| 11 | We clearly need to look very carefully at the implications of many new technologies for jobs in this country . |
| 12 | Martyn Jones of Touche Ross stressed that there ‘ needs to be a practical framework created ’ to support the legislative requirements , and that auditors ‘ will have to look very carefully at the guidance ’ that emerges . |
| 13 | But , if we had bought in some sort of penal clause , then I mean firms might be inclined to look very critically at the qualifications their engineers have got . |
| 14 | It 's very likely they will want to focus very hard on the economics of generating electricity from nuclear and perhaps also on the financing of nuclear power stations . |
| 15 | Then we got out and began to walk very quietly along the path towards the house . |
| 16 | Our academic staff will have to compete very hard for the research money to continue their activities , while at the same time maintaining the quality of the teaching they offer students . |
| 17 | The opinion polls showed him lagging a long way behind the front-runners and suggested that he was going to fare very poorly in the New Hampshire contest . |
| 18 | It is clear from these examples that and on the one hand and and on the other were not , or came not to be , co-extensive , the former pair being , or becoming , confined to specific grades of medreses , the latter retaining , or developing , a wider geographical significance whose Importance is not altogether clear beyond the fact that it was impossible to get very far in the hierarchy without having taught in the . |
| 19 | Asked how he would tackle a photographic assignment based on the theme ‘ Positivity ’ for the Grolsch Showcase Competition , Dermot O'Shea replies : ‘ I would have to think very carefully about the word , its meaning and what it suggests to me . |
| 20 | Faced with these possibilities , we have to think very carefully about the ways in which natural selection acts . |
| 21 | But his general view of science is also open to challenge and , in our view , any student of international relations needs to think very deeply about the nature of science , as we shall make clear in later chapters . |
| 22 | It appears to depend very much on the emergence , and the strength or dominance , of the task-centred member(s) . |
| 23 | Alan Giles , the new supremo at Waterstones , was unable to spend very long at the drink spotty that followed the Publishers Association 's a.g.m. last Thursday — he was rushing off to meet his wife to celebrate their wedding anniversary . |
| 24 | While my hon. Friend is considering replacement of the type 42 destroyers , will he bear in mind the urgent decision that he and his colleagues have to take very soon about the future of HMS |
| 25 | But on 19th April the wind began to blow very violently from the west , and we were driven to the east of the Molucca Islands . |
| 26 | A picturesque bridge carries the path across the water to continue very pleasantly to the head of the valley , and here it turns a corner into Trow Gill . |