Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] very [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There are those who grow up in a very rigid and often fiercely religious environment , crushed into a mould , dictated by unbending rules and regulations , where little demonstrative love is shown .
2 The padre goes with them as they leap out into a very boggy field .
3 We put in at a very tiny stream that would lead to the main waterway .
4 To coin a phrase by John , I live in a very small house said Confucius , but my windows look out on a very large world .
5 They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell .
6 Continue up past a very Roman Baroque palace ( 4/181 ) on the other side , the Martinic Palace , attributed to Carlo Fontana , 1702–5 .
7 And yet , if you join those two inert things together in the right ratios they go off with a very big bang .
8 Starting from the logic of sustainability , we end up with a very similar size for a new community to the one that Howard was writing about a hundred years ago .
9 In most accountancy practices you have very few of those — and you do n't have any I-Preserves either , who are good at relationships and making people feel warm and wanted , so you end up with a very cool , intellectual kind of set-up ’ .
10 But now it 's all divorce and even the married ones carry on in a very odd way .
11 If an aspiring agent does n't go to college or university , there is no reason why he or she ca n't apply to an agency and come in as a very junior person to work their way up .
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