Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I feel shame , ’ said Herluin tightly , ‘ for myself and for my abbey , that we have nourished and sheltered and trusted in a very false aspirant to brotherhood . |
| 32 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 33 | None of these methods of book provision are suitable for the British public library authorities created by the 1972 reorganization of local government , in which bookstocks have to serve a large number of service points ( usually more than 20 , sometimes as many as 70 ) scattered over a very large area . |
| 34 | these government run industries in these developed countries , they are subsidized to a very large extent and they are not competitive on , on the world market . |
| 35 | By the time of his death , in May 1991 , none of his many books was available in paperback , and sales of the hardback editions had dropped to a very low level indeed . |
| 36 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 37 | Today we have the last of the series , and we have come to a very sudden change in the style of Paul 's writing . |
| 38 | Correlations varied over a very wide range . |
| 39 | Thus , it was argued , whatever effect upon the market the authorities might have , it would be confined to a very narrow spectrum of assets and interest rates . |
| 40 | The blue-chip market is confined to a very limited number of names . |
| 41 | A plausible explanation is that a poloidal magnetic field draws cosmic-ray protons out of the plane before many have interacted with molecular gas , which is confined to a very thin layer ( 40pc thick ) . |
| 42 | At least two separate groups of birds do it , and it has been carried to a very high level of sophistication by dolphins and whales . |
| 43 | Nevertheless , Shearman , as District Chairman , recognised that the District could not continue in its relatively impecunious way ‘ sustained by a very small number of rather weak branches dispersed over a very wide area … most of the branches were struggling ’ . |
| 44 | Another sequence with enhancer-like character has been described in the S-phase regulated histone H4 , although located at a very distal position with respect to the transcription start point ( 21 ) . |
| 45 | The court also has power to order transfer of its own motion and the question should be considered at a very early stage in the proceedings . |
| 46 | The event opens with some of his more recent ‘ topiary ’ interpretations of the Minster , where the whole is dominated by a very powerful interpretation of the Crucifixion that owes much to Matthias Grunewald ( 1475/801528 ) the Mathis der Maler of Hindemith 's opera . |
| 47 | The form of slave production and exploitation and subsequent colonial development of the West Indies has also ensured for most of the islands a fate similar to that of many modern African states : a form of ‘ peripheral ’ development in which individual economies are dominated by a very small number of cash crops , often the same as those cultivated under the original system of slavery , the income from which is dependent on world commodity prices subject to considerable fluctuation and open to manipulation by metropolitan powers ( Beckford , 1972 ) . |
| 48 | I 've managed to arrange to meet her and talk to her and this should take place tomorrow ( though it 's being organised by a very unreliable man , one of the expatriate drunks that live here ) . |
| 49 | I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes . |
| 50 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 51 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |
| 52 | Friendships developed of a very intense type , sometimes , inevitably , with an explicitly sexual aspect which seems , in spite of the awful fulminations of headmasters , to have produced remarkably little in the way of enduring guilt or sexual abnormality in adult life : it was the emotional intensity of the experience which was remembered , suggesting how deep a displaced need it in fact fulfilled . |
| 53 | In fact I 've already heard of a very good job which would be just right for you , teaching the five daughters of an Irish family . |
| 54 | Their father , Sandy Toms is , surprisingly you might think , presented as a very likeable character . |
| 55 | The later Wordsworth is usually presented as a very unattractive figure ; the case against his poetry will be examined separately , but what annoys people even more than his apparent repudiation of the principles underlying Lyrical Ballads is his political attitude . |
| 56 | They had the easy familiarity of two people who knew each other very well indeed , and had done for a very long time . |
| 57 | ‘ The deal has been very good for football , ’ he says , ‘ and I believe that television is going to be accepted as a very important tool in the game 's administration . |
| 58 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 59 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 60 | Mind you , the combination of a few too many pints before the game and only being able to see about 3/4 of the pitch would n't have made for a very comprehensive report anyway ! |