Example sentences of "very [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen how , from the workers ' point of view , rationalised labour and practices can mean a very constraining and potentially unstable working environment . |
| 2 | A very rich and therefore powerful man , as head keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert had the pick of all the prisoners ' possessions as well as the sale of concessions , be it beds , sheets , coals , drink , food , even a wench . |
| 3 | A life-story can often liven up what has become a very dry and even boring area of social research . |
| 4 | They are presented here in chronological order and mostly without comment , as their very specific and often personal nature makes them impossible to qualify . |
| 5 | Arabel has found a very friendly and very mischievous raven . |
| 6 | One of the passenger doors opened and a very tall and very black-skinned man climbed slowly into the sunlight . |
| 7 | However , sending a letter to a large sample of people can be quite a costly business , not only in stationery and postage , but also in finding out the recipients ' correct names and addresses , if one is to avoid the very impersonal and rather off-putting form of address , ‘ The Occupant ’ . |
| 8 | I ca n't see that it matters , for the fact remains that it exemplifies the very finest and most elegant architecture which displays the first burgeoning of the English Renaissance . |
| 9 | There , each of the three species does have a very different and highly distinctive pattern of markings . |
| 10 | But if and when you do want something else , going to college when you are older and when you positively want to go , can be a very different and more satisfying experience than being at school . |
| 11 | One company had a very different and more sophisticated method of scanning the environment than the rest . |
| 12 | In the sample of seven companies , one stood out from the others as having a very different and more sophisticated method of scanning the environment . |
| 13 | Thus , in the case of Scottish geology , we are probably considering a very rigid and tightly circumscribed subject area , within which research programmes lead to publication in a very limited number of journals . |
| 14 | Thus , in the case of Scottish geology , we are probably considering a very rigid and tightly circumscribed subject area , within which research programmes lead to publication in a very limited number of journals . |
| 15 | One very exciting and yet subtle way to treat the subject is to keep to one main colour but to introduce it in all its different shades and tones . |
| 16 | It 's May Day of course , and for many the celebrations meant a very early , very wet and very cold start . |
| 17 | He would make a very careful and very thorough account of it all , he said . |
| 18 | Above all , Marianella will be remembered as a very brave and very determined woman . |
| 19 | Very clear and pretty complete account really of , of what I 've you to cover but it was quite a lot of ground erm she went over and er some of it may be less easy to understand than other bits . |
| 20 | ‘ It is a very mystical and very powerful number , although twelve is more frequently found . |
| 21 | ‘ This going round the world is a very easy and almost imperceptible business ; there is no difficulty about it ’ , he wrote to The Times from a ship in the middle of the Pacific in November 1872 . |
| 22 | When you are there the impression is one of a very warm and very vivid culture ; there is a lot more humour . |
| 23 | A very early and most interesting use of this technique was that of Jahoda who asked young people at school to write an essay about their first day at work and what they envisaged it would be like . |
| 24 | Few , if any other choreographers , have consistently controlled the very personal and strongly motivated style for a single ballet . |
| 25 | The elegant chairs and sofas had gone ; there was not a flower to be seen and , where the gold curtain had been , there was a very ordinary and rather battered door , through which they were taken to Paul de Levantiére 's tiny , chaotic office . |
| 26 | Before 5 October 1968 the handful of NICRA activists had a very simple and extremely limited impression of what was happening across the Atlantic . |
| 27 | In its very individual and grimly realistic way it is very romantic , but this is not pretty cinema ! |
| 28 | Several films of the 1930s were to deal with the very real and widely condemned phenomenon of lynching and in 1935 MGM had finally allowed their imported genius Fritz Lang to make this story after several years of waiting . |
| 29 | We are not dealing with the Christ or Christos of theology , the figure who enjoys a very real and very puissant existence in the psyches and consciences of the faithful . |
| 30 | But today had shown her that she was n't immune to normal natural feelings , and even her imaginery passion for the handsome singer had n't protected her from this very real and very frightening feeling of genuine affection . |