Example sentences of "[vb -s] very [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sociolinguistics is most successful in explaining sex differences when it looks very carefully at the conditions of particular communities ' lives and at what the people themselves consider the most important influences on their behaviour . |
| 2 | From the back the sack looks very much like the Condor , for it has the same capacity — 60 litres expanding to 80 . |
| 3 | It 's starts very quietly at the stage , there 's very little you know |
| 4 | The bassoon , in addition to the unison-combinations in which it figures above , blends very well with the horn without removing from the latter its distinguished quality of tone . |
| 5 | The new brick facing blends very well with the surroundings and adds to Ray and Beth Arnold 's work over several years in restoring Horderley to the appearance of a station . |
| 6 | The responsibility for this lies very largely with the emergence of pluralism , after which elite studies would never quite be the same . |
| 7 | Sadly not , as I had thought , a record by King Beer called ‘ Animals That Swim ’ , ‘ King Beer ’ is a slow sort of talking ballad that sounds like a posh Jonathan Richman having a muse and a chorus that arrives very late in the song indeed . |
| 8 | I think just everybody participates very well in the lessons and make some good contribution . |
| 9 | The implementation of the European Community 's 1992 programme depends very heavily on the enactment of new law , not just at Community level , but also — because most Community law does not work directly , but relies on national implementing measures — at national level . |
| 10 | This is encouraging , for , as HM Inspectors have said , ‘ the development of music in primary schools depends very largely on the level of expertise and quality of teaching available ’ ( The Teaching and Learning of Music , Aspects of Primary Education series , HMSO , 1991 ) . |
| 11 | Successful nursing depends very largely on the nurse 's ability to deal effectively with information received through the senses , whether it is obtained by formal means , such as taking blood-pressure , temperatures and so on or by informal means such as noticing changes in the patient 's condition during bed-making . |
| 12 | At the Sunday Times Hospital of the Year awards , he said quality of NHS care ‘ depends very largely on the luck of the draw ’ . |
| 13 | Patricia Knapp , in the United States , once commented that one could get a perfectly good liberal education from a paperback bookshop : the sense in which this is true must not however blind us to the fact that self-learning of this kind has its weaknesses , is unreliable , and depends very much on the way in which the student undertakes his task . |
| 14 | What sort of furniture you have depends very much on the style of your home , your tastes and your pocket . |
| 15 | What follows from the normal range of experience depends very much on the effects produced by the child 's altered condition on the parents and , in turn , by the way in which their parental reaction impinges on the child . |
| 16 | In spite of this useful work , density remains a rather static and misleading statistic in that it depends very much on the unit used to compute the density . |
| 17 | Going back to the source map , the level of detail and accuracy depends very much on the map scale . |
| 18 | So in the first instance a sharp rise in oil prices necessitates an increased demand for dollars , but whether this is maintained depends very much on the decisions of OPEC countries . |
| 19 | The success of the treatment depends very much on the skill and intelligence of the operatives and careful supervision to ensure that attention is given to the full extent of affected areas . |
| 20 | While this would be possible , it would be hard to protect such rights in any great detail through , for example , some form of constitutional entrenchment since the standard of these rights depends very much on the state of the economy and on demographic factors such as the numbers of elderly in the population ( currently increasing greatly ) and the number of children and the size of the working population . |
| 21 | I think it depends very much on the circumstances . |
| 22 | That depends very much on the approach of some individuals . |
| 23 | Although craft activity in some form was carried on almost everywhere , whether it can properly be termed industry depends very much on the objective and scale of the undertaking . |
| 24 | The effect that this current has on the rest of the dendrite , and hence in due course the cell body , depends very much on the geometry of the region around the synapse ; biophysical calculations show that spine synapses are more effective than shaft synapses in spreading the current , and in any given spine , the current flow is dependent on its exact shape . |
| 25 | This depends very much on the age of the victim though , for accidents involving small children usually occur in their own residential street , whilst older children are more often involved at junctions and along busier streets . |
| 26 | I think it depends very much on the age of the people getting married |
| 27 | They type of support offered depends very much on the people involved but the supporter is often a listen ear who may also be able to give some practical help with the new baby . |
| 28 | The type of support offered depends very much on the people involved but the supporter is often a listening ear who may also be able to give some practical help with the new baby . |
| 29 | ‘ Moreover , the argument that a custodial institution is inevitably a university of crime depends very much on the regime there and the allocation of inmates . |
| 30 | But , as every good gardener knows , healthy plant growth depends very much on the fertility and structure of the soil . |