Example sentences of "very [adj] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To a trainee at the interface this may not seem very different from a teaching machine or computer aided instruction but the logic or architecture of the driving system is different so that even more flexibility is available .
2 Within a theoretical framework , they constitute the start , at least , of a serious and methodical study of language , though certainly one looking very different from a University undergraduate course in Linguistics .
3 P. H. George Low was very fond of a midday noggin .
4 Get very messy on a Saturday morning breakfast do n't we ?
5 They were both very wet in a head sea .
6 They wo n't think this is very funny on a Sunday evening , eh ? ’
7 Ooh yes , I said it 's very funny on a Friday night !
8 It is also very popular as a speciality cheese ; in layers either with Dolcelatte or Gorgonzola , it looks and tastes delicious .
9 Chung Lew , chief equities trader at Kleinwort Benson in New York , said : ‘ The market has become very high on a valuation basis and investors seem to be switching out of stocks into other areas such as bonds . ’
10 The only trouble was that the photograph was so arranged that it would be very easy for a picture editor to crop the product out of the picture altogether !
11 Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies .
12 In fact , it was not possible to stop the intervention completely since Olwyn had come to look forward very much to a bedtime story from her father , and to getting stars .
13 He is a striker very much on a revenge mission .
14 That coterie would also act , as they did for the 1991 event , very much as a think tank .
15 Penn and Venables pulled their forces together and , very much as a consolation prize , captured the island of Jamaica .
16 It 's not , we , we have sometimes gone very early on a Saturday morning to places like Nottingham , but , it 's not too far for that .
17 No one was really sorry to see her go as she was very expensive to maintain and had never been very effective as a revenue vessel .
18 The most obvious choice is the Crown of Command , which gives you a unmodifiable leadership value of 10 which is very useful for a Goblin leader .
19 In Paris I was very involved with a production company of Sabinet .
20 Er one being descriptive in terms of describing the end product and I do n't think that 's very helpful to a structure plan , I think that is a matter that can be left to the local plan .
21 There is also a wealth of specialists in other fields who can be very helpful to a PI practitioner .
22 There is something very disturbing about a benefit system which will prop up Mr Deaves until he gets back on his business feet , yet is reluctant to help people who are literally out on the streets .
23 Very handy with a hip flask , but did n't look as if he could tell a Renoir from a Renault .
24 Some specialised in building boats quickly and had large numbers of boatbuilders but most docks were very small with a work force of only two or three men .
25 Another crustacean , Copilia , has perhaps the strangest eye of all , for it scans the world in way very reminiscent of a television camera .
26 Symbolism had been fun in his early days with her , but it was something that had turned very sour in a live-in situation .
27 However it is very big as a school sport , and very strong at collegiate ( =university ) level .
28 Thirty yards on , a ‘ little brown job ’ sat very upright on a wire fence .
29 Class relations are such that it would be very difficult for a campesino family to refuse .
30 This standard feature makes it very difficult for a car thief to steal a Clio and falsify its identity .
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