Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | References may not be recommended where they could be appropriate or useful ; in other places , too many references can make for a very tedious search . |
2 | In a typical institutional kitchen the combination of floor tile , water , grease , food spills and so on can make for a very dangerous environment . |
3 | Clearly , the military could and did act as a very powerful interest group and had the support of the heavy industrial interest , which was dependent on the manufacture of armaments . |
4 | I I think that er what has been known as an inner northern bypass , that is a road which passes between Harrogate and Knaresborough , could act as a very effective relief road for the A fifty nine . |
5 | But in historical retrospect it does count as a very early example of visual effects in a TV serial . |
6 | This would count as a very serious mistake in spoken language interpreting . |
7 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
8 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
9 | As for national health service resources , the hon. Gentleman will know of the very large real-terms increases that have been made — in excess , in fact , of the real-terms increases promised by the Opposition at the last general election . |
10 | Although his voice and the accent change slightly when he becomes the narrator , Dustin was brilliantly convincing as a very old man , as well as managing to look and behave like a very young man when necessary . |
11 | ‘ And we both know that can make people behave in a very strange way , ’ he said drily . |
12 | We 'll also focus on a very special display the Falcons put on while here in the States . |
13 | The hostility that siblings show can therefore commence at a very young age : 2-year-olds become increasingly adept at asking for mother 's help in a sibling conflict and can be quite explicit about what the sibling has done to them . |
14 | They did n't speak for a very long time . |
15 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
16 | I wonder if we could just finish with a very brief comment from you in a positive sense as to what would be your advice to somebody that 's unemployed ? |
17 | Richard Whiteley , presenter of Yorkshire 's Calendar news programme , said : ‘ I 've seen YTV grow into a very strong business . |
18 | He noted that the Canberra meeting ‘ is the start of something which could grow into a very significant development not only for the region but for the global economy . ’ |
19 | Your father ? ’ 'He never speaks of Uncle Adam either , but he does n't speak in a very different way , if you follow me . |
20 | You can then choose from a very wide range indeed , from lengths of artists ' or sail canvas ( available quite cheaply from art supply stores or marine goods suppliers ) to upholstery fabrics and velvets . |
21 | Let me finish in a very positive note in saying that I 'm as concerned as the speaker to which I reply that that day will be reached and reached soon , please God , when we can sit down together and share fully in the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
22 | The first will result in a very high-performance processor code-named TFP , designed for technical computing . |
23 | As explained in Section 5.3.3 , this can result in a very simple spectrum , due to emission from a single vibrational level of the electronically-excited state to various vibrational levels of the electronic ground state , as shown in Fig. 6.19 . |
24 | This unpalatable circumstance could result in the very real possibility that Cassie would get a lower price for the cottage than she had paid for it , thus resulting in the disastrous situation of owing the Building Society money which she did not possess . |
25 | The mulberry can grow to a very great age , and some of those planted over 380 years ago can still be found . |
26 | Sponges can grow to a very considerable size . |
27 | For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 . |
28 | Her whole point in life is that people criticize her because she does erm she can only actually look after a very small percentage of the people in Calcutta who need help and they all sort of say , Well she does that bit but what about the rest of them ? |
29 | You 'd look like a very small Katharine Hepburn . |
30 | But this may look like a very odd form of neutrality to the weaker child . |