Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 2 | Until fairly recently , forestry has often been carried out on a very big scale , with tens of thousands of hectares being covered and public access made difficult . |
| 3 | The likelihood is not that the whole system is ‘ switched off , but that parts of it are turned off in a very unsystematic way . |
| 4 | They 're floating around in a very , I mean Today was the worst . |
| 5 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 6 | Mr Kinnock 's voice was choked with emotion as , refusing to concede defeat , he said : ‘ Even now as the recounts are going on in a very large number of seats the results of this election is not decided . ’ |
| 7 | Grace had been brought up in a very religious household and she maintained strict standards for herself but , she says , ‘ was not allowed to check or discipline John in any way ’ . |
| 8 | However , our descriptive task will be more difficult , as it involves dealing with greater complexity of variation than would be the case in more focused communities , and it has to be carried out at a very fine-grained level . |
| 9 | The presence of a ‘ module header ’ does not restrict the generality of this definition , since it can be picked out from a very wide range of module contexts . |
| 10 | Other , more local , axes in , for example , Northumberland , have also been suggested , and can be brought down to a very local level . |
| 11 | However , a B II site at this junction can be ruled out by the very high chemical shift of the associated phosphate . |
| 12 | ’ A temporary prefabricated structure can be put up in a very short time with manual labour . |
| 13 | erm We saw the beginning of the factory , industrialization , big manufacturers where lots of people worked and where cloth could be churned out at a very fast rate , and therefore , cloth was cheaper . |
| 14 | An appropriate set of product communications needs to be sent out at the very earliest opportunity and more expensive , albeit more responsive media , such as a telephone , should be brought into effect . |
| 15 | Once again we recommend all our members to seek quotations in advance of their car policies falling due for renewal as otherwise you may be missing out on a very good bargain . |
| 16 | Once again we recommend all our members to seek quotations in advance of their car or home policies falling due for renewal as otherwise you may be missing out on a very good bargain . |
| 17 | A number of significant problems for the distinction between anaphora and discourse deixis have been thrown up by the very considerable body of work on pronominalization ( see Lyons , 1977b ; Lyons , 1977a : 662ff for a review ; and for recent work , see e.g. Heny & Schnelle , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Money has been rolling in from a very wide range of fund raising activities undertaken by JM sites and individuals around the country . |
| 19 | Clive expressed his distrust and fear of being let down by a very detached attitude in all his relationships . |
| 20 | I had no idea what it was , but it certainly tasted good , all being washed down with a very good red wine . |
| 21 | They get typically twice or two and a half times the salaries that our people get and that 's being going on for a very long time . |
| 22 | Who were brought in at a very level . |
| 23 | It was flung open , and she side-stepped hastily , only just avoiding being knocked down by a very annoyed Roman . |
| 24 | A particularly striking combination is made up of a very dark , bronze-leaved phormium next to the pure white flowers of Physostegia virginiana ‘ Alba ’ which is one of the easiest of all late summer border plants , even though it seems to be out of fashion at the moment . |
| 25 | PJ , however , is lining up with the very best . |
| 26 | The next thing I do remember is waking up in a very grand house a few streets away from where the robbery took place . |
| 27 | This is set up in a very similar way to above , but the advantage of using continuous stationery , is that only the sections for the height of the design will need to be joined together , because we can print the width sections as one continuous piece of paper . |
| 28 | The limb is no exception , which means that the basic pattern of the limb is laid down on a very small scale . |
| 29 | The basis of this understanding of marriage is laid down in the very first book of the Bible : ‘ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife , and they become one . ’ |
| 30 | This reflex is brought about by a very simple neural mechanism . |