Example sentences of "very [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hare came very slowly out of the shadows of the tunnel . |
| 2 | As soluble nitrate travels very slowly down from the surface into aquifers , present changes in water quality stem from changes in land use many years ago . |
| 3 | She began to walk very slowly back towards the house . |
| 4 | The whole building shook , and someone was running the sound-effects tracks from All Quiet on the Western Front and Hell 's Angels very loud out in the street . |
| 5 | Therefore the total water volume of your aquarium ( 100 litres ) should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and the water should flow very gently back into the aquarium , avoiding strong currents and surface turbulence . |
| 6 | of course until December so at least still very much up in the air , but certainly the estimates of the current year are produced of highly |
| 7 | Moreover , land use planning , which in the early 1980s was alleged to be an obstacle to investment , is very much back on the agenda . |
| 8 | The idea for this workshop came out of a realisation that Modularity was very much back on the agenda in a wide variety of institutions . |
| 9 | ‘ However the discussion happily turned very soon on to the question of procedure , ’ Amery recorded , ‘ and the desirability , in which we all concurred , of the statement being so framed as to avoid our being pushed into a general election this autumn . ’ |
| 10 | And major differences emerged very early on between the English and European movements . |
| 11 | This means making decisions very early on about the contents of the whole essay ( e.g. by writing an initial synopsis ) . |
| 12 | Over lunch in the canteen , very early on in the field-work , the conversation turned to stress and the danger members of the RUC face . |
| 13 | At the end of the tale , the wife underlines this aspect of the merchant 's lifestyle by suggesting that her spending on clothing serves the same purpose : This understanding provides a fundamentally important gloss to the moot , " must " , of the lines spoken , apparently by a female speaker , very early on in the Shipman 's Tale : Both the merchant and the monk in the tale operate by borrowing money on credit in order to make profitable purchases . |
| 14 | This last finding was one that became apparent very early on in the reviews . |
| 15 | The crux of the argument is that , since language users are essentially unpredictable , if we use contextual information very early on in the process of word identification , we will often be misled , since successive words in an utterance are only rarely fully predictable from their prior context . |
| 16 | It would appear to be the case that , for this kind of effect to take place , the word 's function must be made available to the syntactic and semantic processes very early on in the access process . |
| 17 | He revels in the memory of it , making it froth and lather all round the alleys and back-yards of youth very nearly up to the roof-tops . |
| 18 | I think he did plan something though , with his ally on the train , and I think Bill should see that they guard the train 's horses very carefully out at the track . ’ |
| 19 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 20 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 21 | The news was general now , although the chief censor , Admiral Thomson , was keeping all comment and speculation very firmly out of the newspapers . |
| 22 | I think if the road was drawn very closely in to the greenbelt edge then that could have an effect on development pressures and it could lead to pressures for erm some er amendment the greenbelt boundary in in the future erm of plan making processes . |
| 23 | My father was maybe in once or twice when I was a boy and he was maybe buying a horse and that but he was very seldom out of the island that I mind . |