Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God , when things like that happen I just feel like shouting I Want To Work in a very loud voice . |
| 2 | If , after reading the advice in Chapter 9 , you decide to keep to a very strict calorie intake of just 850 to 1,000 calories daily , you will find it very difficult to achieve the upper levels of the fibre recommendation and might even find it difficult to consume 35 grams of fibre daily . |
| 3 | I have seen students who were initially persuaded rather against their will , to use a computer for solving some statistical problem in psychology become addicted within a very short time . |
| 4 | Then , as we saw recently , various MPs start to behave in a very silly way . |
| 5 | It is clear that some variables in English do function in a very general way : for example , variation between the alveolar and velar nasal in the present participle ending ( ing ) is universal and can be said to mark the whole English-speaking world as a single speech community . |
| 6 | Perhaps I 've , perhaps I 've , perhaps I 've mixed in a very sheltered society . |
| 7 | You 've grown into a very beautiful young woman , Alice , and I do not like to see beauty wasted . |
| 8 | Retroviruses come supplied with a very interesting viral enzyme called reverse transcriptase ( because it reverses the normal process of ‘ transcription ’ in which DNA is copied into RNA ) . |
| 9 | The irony is it 's the best team we 've had for a very long time . ’ |
| 10 | It 's very clear that if you wish to manage at a very high level or wish to influence people you wo n't achieve that wearing a sloppy sweater and jeans . |
| 11 | As far as employment of the ma marketing consultant or marketing persons concerned the actual costing of that has worked out something like between six sixteen and twenty thousand pounds now we 've gone through a very difficult financial stage like many other organisations and many other theatres . |
| 12 | It might be say at equal opportunities which we 've worked at a very great deal over the last year . |
| 13 | The world has distorted this , and unfortunately many Christians have responded in a very reactionary manner causing many to throw the baby out with the bath water . |
| 14 | ‘ We have come through a very critical emergency and come out in good shape , ’ aid NASA 's satellite programme director , Robert Adler . |
| 15 | Today we have the last of the series , and we have come to a very sudden change in the style of Paul 's writing . |
| 16 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 17 | Er yeah , I have thought of a very different one . |
| 18 | Communists have participated on a very small scale in the governments of Sweden and France , but apart from Italy are nowhere the dominant party of the proletariat , let alone the leaders of a cross-class anti-monopoly alliance . |
| 19 | However , to achieve a satisfactory result you need to knit at a very loose tension , at least eight , and more probably nine or ten . |
| 20 | SCOTVEC 's role in accrediting SVQs was announced by Ian Lang , Scottish Education Minister , in 1989 and since then developments have proceeded at a very rapid pace . |
| 21 | Owen O'Neil agrees : ‘ There 's no major comedy circuit in Northern Ireland in the way there is in London , but people have survived for a very long time on the strength of their own sense of humour . ’ |
| 22 | I have lived in a very good conversion and viewed some very bad ones . |