Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , that did not stop the sense of adventure to a 20-year-old going off in 1933 in a very strange vessel called the Somersetshire , of which a very famous Air Force song will be sung for evermore . |
| 2 | We approached 1991 with a very positive attitude and I am delighted to say , that most aspects of our business moved forward extremely well after a lot of hard work and determination to succeed . |
| 3 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 4 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 5 | Reference was made in Chapters 7 and 10 to the very important terms as to title , description , quality and sample which are implied by sections 12–15 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 6 | The Pall Mall , Drum and Dixie Jazz Festivals , are just three of the very popular festivals which take place in Amsterdam during the year . |
| 7 | But they were still two remarkable performances , particularly his top-20 finish at the Forte Seniors ' Championship which included a last round 73 against a very tough par of 71 . |
| 8 | As argued earlier , for prevalence to have risen to over 1,000 in 1984–5 from a very low baseline in 1979 and a major acceleration in the incidence rate around 1982–3 , annual incidence for the five agencies must have been over 400 during 1984–5 , compared with nearer 300 in 1985–6 . |
| 9 | The Palace were also forced by injury to field a somewhat weakened side — but our new goalkeeper played a magnificent match , kept his team in the game in spite of intense Rovers pressure , saved a penalty , and the Palace only went down 1–2 to a very late goal indeed . |
| 10 | IN SPITE of all the initial press that latched Drop Nineteens into a very English tradition of sonic cathedral-building , there 's a much stronger sense of American character that runs through all they do ; a kind of gaucheness and wide-eyed wonder that 's encapsulated in ‘ Kick The Tragedy ’ 's dreamy recollection of the two big orange trees growing in Greg 's Mom 's Florida back garden . |
| 11 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 12 | 3 In a very recent photograph I became aware of a shifting in the function of the photographic paper — ‘ skin ’ had become the object of the image — an undulating swathe of black rubber littered with bright crimson tulip petals , as though gashes in the fabric . |
| 13 | Regrettably this has resulted in the TEC being unable to give a permanent contract for 1992–93 to a very small number of training providers , including Bishop College of Beauty . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's going to stay number one for a very long time , ’ says Michael Ellis of the influential American music magazine Billboard . |
| 15 | The 16-year-old left Langbaurgh Comprehensive School on Teesside yesterday as one of a very rare breed . |
| 16 | The state of our affairs in India , in consequence of our false economy in the way of troops and ships , was one of a very serious character . |
| 17 | Any one of a very large number of ways of throwing rocks together would be labelled a mountain , and might have been named Mont Blanc . |
| 18 | A very warm day here at Lord 's , breeze just starting to get up a little , in fact the sun has just disappeared behind one of a very few clouds . |
| 19 | Not only was he one of the very rare examples of a writer who produced great work in more than one genre , but in a career which spanned nearly 60 years , his talent had developed from traditional Victorian fiction to innovative 20th century poetry . |
| 20 | It was one of the very rare occasions when Chaplin made himself a worker , a member of the proletariat with all the attendant problems of low wages , of dealing with a foreman , and of sustaining a home and family . |
| 21 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 22 | Brian was one of the very first members of the ACET team and will be greatly missed . |
| 23 | One of the very first actors to be labelled a hellraiser was Peter Finch . |
| 24 | One of the very first sketches took the salt cellar shape literally with the design of the skirt section mirroring the corrugations on the pot , and the eye/gun turret resembling the screw-off lid . |
| 25 | Do you know one of the very first things I noticed and liked in you , was the way you shook one 's hand , and looked straight at one as you said goodbye . |
| 26 | Instead it has been one of the very first things to suffer — and that is the scandal of our age . |
| 27 | I remember , when I was doing my lifesaving certificates , that one of the very first things that we learnt , was that you have to , as the life sa , the life saver , you had to be in charge of the situation . |
| 28 | He arrived in England in 1963 when aged 16 and almost immediately immersed himself in sport ; as such he was one of the very first sportsmen to energy from the second generation West Indian immigrants . |
| 29 | One of the very first accounts , published in 1897 , was an analysis of the metal used . |
| 30 | Surely this must be one of the very first models here and at that time I never heard of anyone owning one ( it would have taken six weeks wages to pay for it ) . |