Example sentences of "very [adj] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bridge across the gjøgv seemed very slender and a long way above the sea surging below , but we made our way safely across and walked out to the end of the hølmur to where we could overlook the gannet colony . |
| 2 | So up until then , being very cautious and a canny Scot , I hung the instrument wrapped in a piece of rag outside the window of my bed space on a nail , just in case somebody came round whilst we were either at school or the workshops . |
| 3 | Henry Veitch , from Selkirk in Scotland , was very colourful and a well-liked figure in Madeira . |
| 4 | She was a pretty girl with fair curly hair and brown eyes , very self-possessed and a good dancer . |
| 5 | This may be difficult when the warren is very large and a corresponding number of purse nets is needed but when working on burrow systems , rather than on the much larger warrens , twenty nets are often sufficient . |
| 6 | When a kick is employed by an attacker , the force behind it is very powerful and a head-on clash may well break the defender 's arm . |
| 7 | England , on the other hand , had a comparatively short Romanesque period of development following an extensive Saxon one but a very long and a unique building period in Gothic architecture emerging into a tardy Renaissance , nearly the last in Europe except for that of the Iberian peninsula . |
| 8 | Nellie was very good and a natural musician who could play without looking at the piano which meant she could watch the dancing at the same time . |
| 9 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 10 | ‘ The response was again very good and a lively question and answer session told me that the students found the talk helpful , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Mrs Binks was very fat and a filthy dress hung shapelessly on her as she slumped , cigarette in mouth , over the kitchen table She was absorbed in a magazine which lay in a clearing among mounds of dirty dishes and her curlers nodded as she looked up briefly at us . |
| 12 | These proved very successful and a glowing report came from the Establishment . |
| 13 | PC Richard Parry said the car was very dirty and a detailed inspection failed to find any sign that it had made contact with the two pedestrians . |
| 14 | It 's the old story — we did n't choose her , she chose us — but she 's very sweet and a great source of amusement . |
| 15 | However , single or limited colour schemes can be very lovely and a popular addition to the garden . |
| 16 | However , as you can see in the photograph below the results are very handsome and a good example of the classic cable pattern taken a step further . |