Example sentences of "very [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People lived and died there ; they did not grow old there , because no one could live for very long in the Robemaker 's hands . |
| 2 | Most will want a reasonable input — usually between £10,000 and £20,000 , although the actual amount is often negotiable and depends very much on the client 's circumstances . |
| 3 | Erm thanks very much for the directions er you gave me , it 's quite awkward coming off the main road there cos you really have |
| 4 | You said thank you very much for the duck 's egg . |
| 5 | And it looked very much like the Brazilian 's fault as he lost control of his Marlboro-McLaren-Honda and collided into the rear of the luckless Mansell 's Canon-Williams-Renault FW14B . |
| 6 | Successful nursing depends very largely on the nurse 's ability to deal effectively with information received through the senses , whether it is obtained by formal means , such as taking blood-pressure , temperatures and so on or by informal means such as noticing changes in the patient 's condition during bed-making . |
| 7 | Success will depend very largely on the dancer 's own sense of timing and ability so to perform the gestures created that they convey meaning which makes sense within the context of the ballet . |
| 8 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 9 | So very early in a horse 's life it establishes eating habits , and the horse may be very reluctant to change these habits when it is mature . |
| 10 | Movement is , of course , the big obsession from very early in the baby 's life . |
| 11 | One branch of the molluscs , very early in the group 's history , found a way of becoming highly mobile and yet retaining the protection of a large and heavy shell — they developed gas-filled flotation tanks . |
| 12 | The social stratification pattern illustrates the fact that the proportions of each variant in a person 's speech relate very clearly to the person 's social class . |
| 13 | But it might do well to look very carefully at the IASC 's work . |
| 14 | Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins . |
| 15 | Yet it is interesting to read another speech , reluctantly dropped very late in the play 's completion , which both showed Christianity in some ways working with the savage world , and looked back with a different point of view to the earlier worship of a human god in the unpublished ‘ Exequy ’ poem in the Waste Land manuscripts . |
| 16 | The grasping young usurer forces him to bear very hard on the firm 's debtors and to carry all the odium that this entails . |
| 17 | And er if you look also at the way that the stones fit together they 're ve they fit together very neatly on the aisle where by the small window whereas the central part of the church there 's much more mortar between the joints . |
| 18 | ‘ The Family ’ relies very heavily on the teacher 's skill in realising the importance of listening to children talking and also knowing when simply to listen and when to listen and suggest or question . |
| 19 | He concluded that commentary has conformed very closely to the Committee 's preference for a style that is appropriate and complementary to Commons proceedings . |