Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he is asleep , he sleeps for a very long time — thousands of years in fact . |
| 2 | The DOS version is even cheaper — it goes for a very reasonable £59 . |
| 3 | In England this power has for a very long time been delegated , so far as barristers are concerned , to the Inns of Court : and , for a much shorter time , so far as solicitors are concerned , to the Law Society . |
| 4 | He even has a bushy moustache and cares for a very special princess . |
| 5 | They had opened the concert with Stravinsky 's Wind Symphonies , written in homage to Debussy and sometimes cutting , sometimes introspective , with delicate wistful flute playing for what looks like a very difficult part from Colin Chambers . |
| 6 | You see we can not always help who our brothers and sisters are but we can make alliances of people on issues of liberation and freedom that goes beyond that narrow family relationship and develops into a very solid alliance that helps to change situations . |
| 7 | The work starts with a very action-orientated point of view : the functional role of the mind is to support adaptive , intelligent action . |
| 8 | Alkali cleaners : These products are often little more than mildly alkaline detergents formulated from anionic-non-ionic detergent blends with a very small proportion of caustic soda and balancing sequestrant . |
| 9 | Then again the painting illustrates in a very concrete fashion the pull Picasso felt between the desire to give forms an explicit , volumetrical treatment , and the need to flatten them up onto the picture plane ( compare , for example , the almost sculptural treatment of the breasts and the arms with that of the head , which is rendered in terms of two flat planes ) . |
| 10 | I think this illustrates in a very nice way what has recently been described as a new erm family circle . |
| 11 | So I think that disaster preparedness and , and , and making yourself safer comes only when you have quite a large surplus , and that means in the developed countries of the world , like the Californian was much , much less likely to die from an earthquake even though he lives in a very vulnerable part of the world , than perhaps erm a rural person in Central America . |
| 12 | The development of every organism starts from a very generalized structure , with the more specialized features that distinguish the particular species being added on in the course of growth . |
| 13 | By day or by night , when its lights so insolently interrupt what ought to be the dark solitude of the mountains , this extension of Saint-Lary is an offence ; only when the weather closes in , and the clouds hang low , returning the high ledge on which it stands to a very satisfactory invisibility , is the valley 's honour temporarily saved . |
| 14 | The olive tree lives to a very great age ; it appears to be indestructible , sending out shoots from a distorted , dry , and seemingly lifeless trunk , reviving annually to bring forth its fruit . |
| 15 | It allows for a very discriminating approach to the question . |
| 16 | ‘ Dialectic ’ is a term which he borrows from Hegel but which he uses in a very different sense to Hegel 's . |
| 17 | A red glow pervades the body , the dorsal , caudal and anal fins have a very full shape , and together with the streamlined body contours this results in a very agile fish . |
| 18 | The surface of this β- sheet is predominantly composed of charged side chains in both domains , but in domain 2 these are almost exclusively lysine and arginine residues which results in a very pronounced patch of basic potential ( Fig.3 e ) . |
| 19 | When a glider recovers so easily , a rapid movement forward on the stick often results in a very steep recovery and a high speed dive . |
| 20 | This notable motif occurs in a very similar form in another pavement from the New Market Hall site , Gloucester ( Neal 1981 , no. 52 ) , where Bacchus sits on a leopard amid an arrangement of interlaced squares and half-saltires . |
| 21 | The task is either hopeless or depends on a very bold speculation about brain differences , if one focuses only on the wink itself . |
| 22 | But since they operate in a real world , their force and the respect they can command depends to a very considerable extent on the degree to which they take account of the real world . |
| 23 | The presence of small amounts of the expressed polypeptide in the E.coli lysate prior to the induction indicates that the expression already occurs to a very low extent in the absence of IPTG , as previously observed in other cases ( 25 ) . |
| 24 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 25 | The publication of the report ‘ The Implications of the Single European Market for Scottish Vocational Education ’ , funded by the Scottish Office Education Department , and undertaken by Alan McGregor and Graham Thom of Glasgow University occurs at a very opportune time . |
| 26 | Cereal fibre , which includes the bran in wholemeal flour , wholemeal bread and bran itself , acts as a very effective way of preventing constipation , diverticular disease and other bowel complaints . |
| 27 | It quite belies its title for it deals with a very wide spectrum of architectural and building topics , has many pictures and plans , useful addresses and a pertinent bibliography . |
| 28 | Medicine ( conventional or complementary ) deals with a very significant interface between the psychological and the physical . |
| 29 | In this way it deals with a very important weakness of many schemes which employ school self-evaluation alone — subjectiveness and inability to draw comparison with other schools . |
| 30 | NOBLE FIR : Grows in a very regular pattern . |