Example sentences of "a very [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He seems a very helpful sort of person . ’ |
| 2 | This is a very helpful rule of thumb ! |
| 3 | Personality has not been shown by industrial psychologists to be a very helpful predictor of performance . |
| 4 | Really he 's a very remote sort of person . |
| 5 | He was a very still sort of man . |
| 6 | The place gave Johnson another whiff of anthropology : here he stood as if in Africa or Arabia , greeting wild natives in their habitat : these Macraes might have been Xhosa tribesmen , or Tuaregs : ‘ The villagers gathered about us in considerable numbers , I believe without any evil intention , but with a very savage wildness of aspect and manner . ’ |
| 7 | While Bourdieu 's self-deprecatory claims to priesthood and orthodoxy turn out to be a cover for a very avant-garde sociology of culture . |
| 8 | We do well to remember that many can live incredibly full lives and develop a very extensive range of sympathy and understanding , who live only within a geographically and culturally restricted circle . |
| 9 | If , in addition , the judiciary then substitute their opinion as to the precise meaning that each of these terms should bear for that of the initial decision-maker , the result will be a very extensive form of review . |
| 10 | But where Paula 's hair had shone and bounced as if it had caught some of the morning 's sunlight her own was straight and mouse coloured , where Paula 's eyes were the clearest , sharpest green hers were muddied to a very ordinary shade of hazel . |
| 11 | Here is a story of a very ordinary sort of chap who , when the cut-off time was 60 , became a Gunnery Leader . |
| 12 | I mean , do n't ask me to explain it 's technical and so it 's a very technical matter of ego psychology that you must accept . |
| 13 | Their varied tasks in the Library have all contributed to its success and we owe them a very real debt of gratitude . |
| 14 | It 's a very real part of humanity that blokes will go and f— about with other women . ’ |
| 15 | There is a very real element of truth in this formulation . |
| 16 | Terry Maher , chairman and chief executive of Pentos , said : ‘ There is a very real threat of VAT being levied on books in the next budget . |
| 17 | The cottage now had a very real smell of poverty . |
| 18 | With a very real danger of invasion by Japan everybody did their bit . |
| 19 | Whenever there is a widespread turning to Christ there is a very real danger of superficiality leading to nominality . |
| 20 | After this we settled down to some serious patrolling and there followed a very strenuous tour of duty which lasted until the following November . |
| 21 | In the result they sought to rely on a very undefined rule of confidentiality that had recently been confirmed in relation to the suppression of memoirs by the Duke of Argyll about his wife 's life , and in one or two other very dissimilar instances . |
| 22 | From both deserted village sites and surviving nucleated settlements , a very complex picture of change and development is beginning to emerge . |
| 23 | At a very advanced stage of rehabilitation the patient practises controlling the hip swinging phase of walking , standing without support and maintaining his balance . |
| 24 | The fact is that the rotting process in timber can be long and slow , and may not be observed by the householder until a very advanced stage of decay has been reached . |
| 25 | Bird song is a very familiar kind of animal behaviour . |
| 26 | Okay so that 's er a very straightforward sort of thing . |
| 27 | Told that the total amount missing was £37 million , but that the report seemed to suggest that £16 million was due to various errors , accounting procedures , and normal mistakes in transferring data into the computer , Mr Sheldon said a very high-powered body of Government specialists was on hand to offer advice on computerised activities . |
| 28 | Brazil , which has a very unequal distribution of income and wealth , has a high demand for luxuries such as servants . |
| 29 | In social terms , the hacienda system represents a very unequal distribution of land , with a small number of people monopolising the bulk of cultivable land . |
| 30 | So on top of the appalling poverty of Chinese rural life there is a very unequal distribution of land which means that some people are desperately poor compared with others . |