Example sentences of "[vb infin] very [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 2 | ‘ This will do very well for the moment , ’ he murmured , nibbling her ear , his hands finding at last the soft flesh between her thighs . |
| 3 | This will do very well for the sort of story that is a combination of the novel of humour ( a story of cumulative comic events ) and the blueprint detective story . |
| 4 | You did n't do very well over the weekend , did you , 'cos I was watching them and they did n't do that well . |
| 5 | They usually can ; but they do n't do very well in the marathon four days later ! |
| 6 | Full-time training at agricultural colleges , universities , or other specialized establishments can provide a much deeper knowledge of the theory of farming , but you should look very carefully at the syllabus to ensure that it covers subjects germane to practical smallholding before enrolling on a course . |
| 7 | I would suggest that , leaving aside permanence achieved by return home to the child 's natural parents , relatives or close friends , and permanence in some cases achieved by residential care ( and I think we should look very carefully at the work of the Children 's Family Trust and at the Ockenden Venture , where results are extremely promising ) , there are sixteen different routes to achieving permanent family placement with substitute families . |
| 8 | ‘ We will look very closely into the suggestion that the operation was cancelled because we were short-staffed , I would be very surprised if that was the case , ’ he said . |
| 9 | And also last Friday at education committee there was a long debate , both on the procedure which would be adopted by the working party , in discharging it 's remit and in particular the policy which it recommended regarding small schools , and also an extended debate on one of the areas which was a subject of recommendation by the er , district auditor which concerns the organisation of first and middle schooling in the Meer area , and there the working party did look very specifically at the recommendation that was made by the district auditor that decided on balance that that was n't likely to produce the best and most cost effective education in that part of the county . |
| 10 | In practice , the SAM can not look very deeply below the surface of an object . |
| 11 | Evolution ultimately selects for the erm reproductive success of individual organisms , and you can see very clearly in the case of the T four bac bacterial that it is really nothing more than the temporary protein packaging of its D N A. |
| 12 | Had it in the bedroom when I was a kip this afternoon and I switched the battery off , so it does n't work very well with the battery off ! |
| 13 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 14 | It is at variance with the unwritten law of our party system ; and there is no clearer statute in that unwritten law than the rule that party claims should always weigh very heavily in the disposal of the highest appointments … |
| 15 | It did sound very much like the flip side to Mrs Richards ' story . |
| 16 | Not the least of these is that this does not square very well with the way to is learned by children . |
| 17 | While he did n't score very well at The Belfry , you could see he was tuning up . |
| 18 | A concept of knowing well which rejects stereotyping can not move very far from the experience which generates the knowledge . |
| 19 | Success will depend very largely on the dancer 's own sense of timing and ability so to perform the gestures created that they convey meaning which makes sense within the context of the ballet . |
| 20 | Since the financial resources of the school will depend very largely on the number of pupils , and open enrolment may allow popular schools to take additional pupils , this will intensify the pressure on schools with falling rolls . |
| 21 | The cost of your expert will depend very much on the type of expert you are instructing and the type of report that you request . |
| 22 | The type of work offered will depend very much on the employer you train with . |
| 23 | The use of the test as a prelude to intervention will depend very much on the extent to which it is regarded as important to direct remediation at the specific linguistic functions which this test addresses . |
| 24 | Control of population growth is important for economic and social progress in developing countries but whether the world 's population will reach two , three , or four times its present size before it stabilises will depend very much on the rate of fertility decline in this decade , says a report from Population Action International . |
| 25 | How you train will depend very much on the area of the country in which you are practising . |
| 26 | Although it did n't sell very well at the time it is significant because it was the first to be published in English using the naming system which we use today . ’ |
| 27 | We do rely very heavily on the telephone and the fax . |
| 28 | You will walk very carefully into the cottage , you will put the kettle on and make some tea . |
| 29 | ‘ You would n't get very far with the Reichsführer with that argument . ’ |
| 30 | Nagy and his coworkers have shown that the bitumen did not travel very far from the heat source before solidifying , so it did not move the uraninite away from the reactor site . |