Example sentences of "a [adj] and very [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is done by , among other things , the sharing of stories , exchange of gossip , and a friendly and very sharp banter ( at which policemen are very good ) , during which sergeants sometimes have to struggle to rise above the one-line wit and are often themselves forced to succumb ( on the use of rituals at the beginning of work in American police departments see Niederhoffer 1967 ) . |
| 2 | Often it can be useful to select a source with a strong and very obvious bias , at least initially . |
| 3 | They march in a track of the moon , and one flat stone , shaped like a tall and very thin rhinoceros , lies between two uprights . |
| 4 | The first time she was playing marbles with Rosie in the saloon , when the double doors swung open and he appeared as if from nowhere , a tall and very upright figure , still in his colonel 's uniform . |
| 5 | It seems a strange and very unjust decision to pick Jim Courier for reasons of his present ranking but who bears no comparison in performance as a Davis Cup player and , even more surprising , as he has actually refused to play for the US team recently . |
| 6 | As well as beautiful landscapes , Yugoslavia has a lively and very distinctive sense of tradition . |
| 7 | My concern is to address a different and very specific issue . |
| 8 | This showed some recovery until 19 6 7 or 1968 , followed by a further and very sharp decline , in particular of about 50 per cent . |
| 9 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
| 10 | A further and very important advantage of this method is that it suggests a way of testing the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis itself . |
| 11 | It gives a clear and very welcome signal to all the people in Northern Ireland of their determination to find a political solution . |
| 12 | About 20 miles out , on a deserted and very quiet country road , there was this mighty explosion and we all dived for cover . |
| 13 | She is a brave woman … a brave and very charming woman . ’ |
| 14 | We ask guests to complete a short , quality-related questionnaire in return for a donation to charity , so we get a willing and very satisfactory response . ’ |
| 15 | It was a premeditated and very nasty murder , and may well have been planned to throw suspicion on Harley or Jefferson . ’ |
| 16 | But the book does explore the emotional effect that this major change has on a small boy 's life in a clever and very unusual way . |
| 17 | Gould , he said in his book on Taxidermy , was ‘ a zealous and very able ornithologist , now travelling in Australia , who has published some valuable , although very expensive works upon birds … |
| 18 | There is a real and very understandable temptation to regard the taught paddle strokes as correct , fixed and vitally important but this is wrong . |
| 19 | The worn crazy paving provides a soft and very unobtrusive backdrop . |
| 20 | The hall into which she stepped was not a hall at all , but a large and very high room , with doors leading off it in most directions , and it was so full of unexpected things that she found it hard to know where to look first . |
| 21 | The same hospital called me in early for a quick and very successful cataract operation ( lens implant ) , seemingly in order to treat as many patients as possible before the go-slow came into effect . |
| 22 | He was of medium height and was wearing a baggy and very creased cotton suit the colour of oatmeal . |
| 23 | Indeed , in 1781 the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote a monumental and very obscure work , The Critique of Pure Reason , in which he concluded that there were equally valid arguments both for believing that the universe had a beginning and for believing that it did not . |
| 24 | The majority of bird netting is likely to be knotted ( this produces a fine and very flexible net ) or knitted , but the thickness of the thread is likely to be more important than the type of assembly . |
| 25 | I was very privileged to meet her when I visited Georgia a few years ago : a remarkable and very courageous woman . |
| 26 | With landfalls in places like Rüdesheim and Koblenz , and Cologne as the final port of call , this is a unique and very special cruise . |
| 27 | On a cold and very windy afternoon at Athletic Park it was far removed from a smiling task for Danaher to sit on the benches and watch his men concede an avalanche of tries , 11 in all , the greatest concession to any Irish opposition in 118 years of international participation . |
| 28 | He not only gave us a basic and very sound idea of the golf swing but enlisted the help of a young and enthusiastic local club professional . |
| 29 | He and Sergeant Joe , having met in Petticoat Lane and having talked , repaired to a pub and had a long and very friendly conversation . |
| 30 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |