Example sentences of "very [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very junior subaltern leaps to attention and says " the colonel 's wife SIR ! " |
| 2 | There is a striking contrast between the sweeping statements about the social importance of rural primary schools which ( I have suggested ) form part of the ‘ national ideology ’ , and the very low priority given to way of life by this Education Authority in actual closure decisions , at least in the formal record of the Village case . |
| 3 | the spread of desert conditions for whatever reason , desert being land with sparse vegetation and very low productivity associated with aridity , the degradation being persistent or in extreme cases irreversible . |
| 4 | Yet the reality is that very little money spent on science is spent on improving social welfare ; as Rose ( 1986 ) has pointed out , 50 per cent of the government 's science and technology budget in 1981–2 went on military research and development . |
| 5 | It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect . |
| 6 | [ Indigenous ] publishers and advertisers tend to reject them , so you need a very strong centre looking after co-ordination . ’ |
| 7 | Another very telling metaphor used of God — supremely so within Christianity — is the metaphor of the father . |
| 8 | But lying there in the dunes he had n't known what he knew now , that he had another and very different appointment to keep on Sunday , September the twenty-fifth . |
| 9 | Practices are , to be sure , a very different place to start from individuals . |
| 10 | I came upon a very old woman dressed from hat to woollen stockings and high boots in black . |
| 11 | A very sound investment compared to plasterboards of the same thickness . |
| 12 | I think we are likely to succeed — thanks in part to the very generous example set by Lord Rothschild . |
| 13 | We 're also going to consider that Cambridge does have very high housing costs in terms of mortgages and that in the city , whereas it may be reasonable in other areas for people to be able to have the opportunity to buy . |
| 14 | A very tiny crack appeared in Jess 's armour . |
| 15 | A very similar picture emerges in Haringey , but here the local authority has worked out the numbers whose income will be affected by more than £2 a week . |
| 16 | Now what I am talking about is a very simple concept illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 17 | I think that was how they had to be , and they 'd be out in this very dangerous environment looking for food , and suddenly they 'd be aware that they 'd , the were coming . |
| 18 | It might have been a very worthy course to stay in England and incessantly work for peace : but I had one traditionally acquired or inherited prejudice , which many will think foolish and which may be logically diffilcult to defend . |
| 19 | As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles . |
| 20 | We had a very white pudding flavoured with rum ( 'I think she does this well' ) . |
| 21 | It 's now my very great pleasure to look for Jacqui who 's our shop leader of Sherborne shop . |
| 22 | The regime perhaps had little choice but to win support by making grants of land which might otherwise have gone to augment royal resources , and Mortimer and Isabella rapidly ran through the very substantial treasure inherited from Edward II . |
| 23 | Although this may seem a very tedious way to go about things , it is the only sure method of success . |
| 24 | This scene would have been difficult to show in its entirety and the one example is a very poor copy found at Welney Fen , Norfolk . |
| 25 | This is a very informative leaflet produced by Dover Harbour Board , with details on which dock your ferry or hovercraft departs from , travelling to your resort by car , rail or coach plus a list of essentials to take . |
| 26 | The side kick is a very good kick to use against areas of the body with a hard bony consistency , such as the knees , although it may be directed at any area of the body . |
| 27 | Firstly , the Perpetual High Income which has been a consistently good performer from a good fund management group ; then Mercury 's European Income Fund on the basis that it is probably a very good time to invest in Europe , with interest rates about to fall there . |
| 28 | I have noticed some very good front ends in Shareware similar to that produced using Pascal , can you please advise me how I produce the same quality of software . |
| 29 | When Mr Barker heard that Christopher Martin-Jenkins had said in his radio commentary that ‘ a very good umpire cracked under pressure ’ he denied it and issued a writ against Martin-Jenkins for defamation . |
| 30 | And that 's not to say that they replace triggers , because they are actually have a very important role to play in terms of being able to er maintain arbitrary business rules and model the way your organization works , inside the database repository . |