Example sentences of "in [art] very [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small proportion of the ladies of the upper classes entered convents ; the remainder were married off , where possible , shortly after puberty ; in the very highest society they had commonly been betrothed , sometimes more than once , in babyhood . |
| 2 | It probably was n't economic in the very small town you know probably you know I do n't , I do n't remember people keeping pigs but if it was collected it probably was collected by the bin at the back door . |
| 3 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 4 | In the very best hotels it is those who have an instinct for the business who will stand out . |
| 5 | For instance , in the very first passage it gives a much better explanation of what all the excitement is about when a messenger arrives hotfoot telling of the habitual ‘ skirmish of wit ’ between Beatrice and Benedict provides the comedy with its starting-point , as in the play itself . |
| 6 | It was a particularly bitter blow for Leeds , because in the very first minute they should have levelled the tie . |
| 7 | In the very first episode I did , we fitted that onto a wobbling camera tracking in ( today you 'd call it a hand-held shot ) and , together with a sucker cup sticking out into shot , it gave you an impression of the thing lumbering towards Barbara down a passage . |
| 8 | So far we 've only had particular doctors using it to run it in , as it were , but in the very near future we hope that all of the doctors in the accident department will be using this system . |
| 9 | In Trebizond , Mick Crackbene worked for the Genoese against Nicholas , in the very same ship he 's now sailing . |
| 10 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 11 | In the very next group I chanced upon that guy , you know the one , he used to read the weather on TVS a few years back , grey hair , quite tall , you know , John something . |
| 12 | In the very last months they cry more than ever . |
| 13 | In a very close race it just might have helped . |
| 14 | Mr Broom says : ‘ The hypnotherapeutic approach is considered particularly relevant for assistance in distance running because in a very real sense you are competing against yourself . ’ |
| 15 | My involvement with separatism lasted five years , but in a very real sense it will never leave me . |
| 16 | Nor were any examples found of we or you co-occurring with a singular verb , and in a very real sense it is this constraint which distinguishes the Belfast vernacular concord system from that of other non-standard varieties . |
| 17 | In a very real way they put us in touch with people in the past , especially ordinary people . |
| 18 | After throwing things around in a very haphazard fashion she finally abandoned her search . |
| 19 | If you are working in a very technical field you should do your homework before the interview so that you are prepared for detailed questions about equipment and techniques you may have to deal with . |
| 20 | In a very Vincent-like move he wrote home to say that he had had to buy two secondhand pairs of trousers and two coats , as well as underwear and shoes . |
| 21 | 3 In a very recent photograph I became aware of a shifting in the function of the photographic paper — ‘ skin ’ had become the object of the image — an undulating swathe of black rubber littered with bright crimson tulip petals , as though gashes in the fabric . |
| 22 | And unless he speaks in a very odd way we take it for granted that he knows what he is saying . |
| 23 | In a very matter-of-fact voice he apologised for the shut down , due to engine failure , adding laconically that he had left ten thousand pounds worth of tyres on the runway . |
| 24 | If you are in a very senior class you may , of course , be introduced to new research material , but the presentation will then be quite different . |
| 25 | ‘ If you are in a very competitive situation it may cause you to think very carefully about what you are doing , ’ he says . |
| 26 | In a very few moments she was racing from her room and into the sitting-room . |
| 27 | It 's an allergic condition , usually pretty harmless , but in a very few cases it causes oedema of the larynx — that 's what we 've got here . " |
| 28 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 29 | If you 're in a very distressed state you ca n't take . |
| 30 | After Munich in a very short year we were at war , and by all accounts it was a very different manner of acceptance of war than we are told of the 1914 war . |