Example sentences of "[vb pp] very [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1988 considerable consternation was created , not least among teachers who had generally responded very positively to the TGAT report , by the leak of a letter about the report from the Prime Minister 's secretary to Kenneth Baker 's secretary . |
| 2 | The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country . |
| 3 | Snow had come very early in the year , but all of October had been so intensely cold that no one was really surprised to see such a heavy fall , although there had been no sign of it when they entered the hall . |
| 4 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 5 | If there is a need for legislation in areas of prison policy , surely this is one area that ought to be considered very quickly by the Government . |
| 6 | The crisis is seen as being located very specifically within the prison system — it is not seen as a crisis of the whole penal system , or of the criminal justice system , let alone as a crisis of society as a whole . |
| 7 | It , it is n't being approached very vigorously at the moment , er in a general sense because of two things . |
| 8 | Yet it is interesting to read another speech , reluctantly dropped very late in the play 's completion , which both showed Christianity in some ways working with the savage world , and looked back with a different point of view to the earlier worship of a human god in the unpublished ‘ Exequy ’ poem in the Waste Land manuscripts . |
| 9 | This analysis was presented very clearly in the Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England ( Redcliffe-Maud 1969:Ch. 3 ) , but it is there to a greater or lesser extent in all the discussions of the period ( cf. |
| 10 | 1.30 In a serious personal injury case or in a fatal case the initial calculations of loss of earnings or dependency may be made very soon after the accident , based on wage rates provided by the employers at that time . |
| 11 | Assessment of samples stored at elevated temperatures may be made very approximately on the assumption of a two-fold acceleration for each 10°C rise in temperature . |
| 12 | Transient absorption spectroscopy using femtosecond pulses has been applied very successfully to the photodissociation and predissociation of ICN and NaC1 . |
| 13 | The point of the iron should then be applied very gently to the seam only . |
| 14 | Their efforts were rated very highly by the Telegraph judges . |
| 15 | Also I have always felt very strongly against the cutting down of trees , and as a teenager in Holland , I started a campaign against the destruction of woodlands for a motorway . ’ |
| 16 | This sequence is probably going to be shot very early in the morning , and it will take great strength of mind to get it all together . |
| 17 | They can be seen very clearly in the work of Juan Miró . |
| 18 | We have seen very recently in the South Pacific how one species can rapidly wipe out vast populations of other organisms . |
| 19 | Before we seek authorisation for the production phase , it will be necessary for each nation to restate or modify it 's planned off take and that will be done very firmly on the basis of the studies which er Group Captain Granville White has already d described which will factor in er against our military tasks , which is , y you know we define now fairly clearly , er exactly what aircraft are needed to undertake those tasks in what scenarios and in the future er as you say , there may well be scope for er adding additional aircraft types to that . |
| 20 | You 've done very well with the diet of course . |
| 21 | Registration has to be done very shortly after the death itself , so the person who goes to the office to do this finds himself alongside people who are celebrating the birth of a baby , or registering a marriage . |
| 22 | With the changes in the political environment and the climate globally and continentally , some companies which have grown and built their considerable business on the production of arms now find themselves in a changed situation ; many have moved very rapidly to the formulation of new products and services quite distinct from their original product base . |
| 23 | We lived in a tall , narrow Victorian house , which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war , when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat . |
| 24 | The book has been produced very quickly after the conference and the editors and publishers should be congratulated . |
| 25 | It worked on every other occasion when it was tried both th north and south and was used very widely in the republic in the past to behead the terrorist organizations . |
| 26 | One can see that ancient story is used very differently in The Lord of the Rings from the way it is in , say , James Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 27 | One program , AUTOFRACTIONS ( see reference 3 ) , that has been used very successfully in the classroom produces large fractions on the screen in the format 4/15 = ? /60 , with the ? appearing in one of the four positions each time . |
| 28 | Volcanic eruptions are sometimes compared with the drama , colour and spectacle of Wagner 's operas — the ‘ Ride of the Valkyries ’ has been used very effectively as the background music to a film of some particularly lurid eruptions . |
| 29 | The only reason I can suggest for this is that they may have ‘ member get member fatigue ’ ; ie it has been used very often in the past and now sees diminishing returns . |
| 30 | However , it had been my intention , and still will be my intention unless I am persuaded very strongly to the contrary , that when I close the enquiry , which I hope will be next Wednesday , I will have in my hands all of the representations , that is to say , both any additional re representations by objectors and the Councils ' replies , before I close the enquiry . |