Example sentences of "very [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen how , from the workers ' point of view , rationalised labour and practices can mean a very constraining and potentially unstable working environment . |
| 2 | A very rich and therefore powerful man , as head keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert had the pick of all the prisoners ' possessions as well as the sale of concessions , be it beds , sheets , coals , drink , food , even a wench . |
| 3 | A life-story can often liven up what has become a very dry and even boring area of social research . |
| 4 | The Glasgow underground railway system like the London underground counterpart has some very strange and totally unexplained events . |
| 5 | The other problem with the concept of consent is simply that it is susceptible of very weak and even negative interpretations . |
| 6 | They are presented here in chronological order and mostly without comment , as their very specific and often personal nature makes them impossible to qualify . |
| 7 | Arabel has found a very friendly and very mischievous raven . |
| 8 | One of the passenger doors opened and a very tall and very black-skinned man climbed slowly into the sunlight . |
| 9 | However , sending a letter to a large sample of people can be quite a costly business , not only in stationery and postage , but also in finding out the recipients ' correct names and addresses , if one is to avoid the very impersonal and rather off-putting form of address , ‘ The Occupant ’ . |
| 10 | I ca n't see that it matters , for the fact remains that it exemplifies the very finest and most elegant architecture which displays the first burgeoning of the English Renaissance . |
| 11 | There , each of the three species does have a very different and highly distinctive pattern of markings . |
| 12 | But if and when you do want something else , going to college when you are older and when you positively want to go , can be a very different and more satisfying experience than being at school . |
| 13 | One company had a very different and more sophisticated method of scanning the environment than the rest . |
| 14 | In the sample of seven companies , one stood out from the others as having a very different and more sophisticated method of scanning the environment . |
| 15 | Quite near were some very old and very decrepit buildings occupied by Talbots , Wholesale Chemists and Druggists . |
| 16 | The Wallace Line commemorates his observation that a zoographical division slices the Indonesian archipelago in half , running down between Celebes and Borneo , Bali and Lombok , and thinly separates very old and very new life-forms . |
| 17 | Thus , in the case of Scottish geology , we are probably considering a very rigid and tightly circumscribed subject area , within which research programmes lead to publication in a very limited number of journals . |
| 18 | Thus , in the case of Scottish geology , we are probably considering a very rigid and tightly circumscribed subject area , within which research programmes lead to publication in a very limited number of journals . |
| 19 | The printer has several advantages over conventional printers ; it is almost silent , the printhead is very light and so powerful motors are not needed and almost any kind of paper can be used . |
| 20 | One very exciting and yet subtle way to treat the subject is to keep to one main colour but to introduce it in all its different shades and tones . |
| 21 | It 's May Day of course , and for many the celebrations meant a very early , very wet and very cold start . |
| 22 | It took us eight very wet and almost windless days to inch our way up the ninety miles of the Bouton Straits before we could turn eastwards into the Banda Sea . |
| 23 | He would make a very careful and very thorough account of it all , he said . |
| 24 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 25 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 26 | Well known examples include the rare use of the 80–100 per cent range in arts and social studies and the full use of very high and very low marks in science and mathematics . |
| 27 | Above all , Marianella will be remembered as a very brave and very determined woman . |
| 28 | Very clear and pretty complete account really of , of what I 've you to cover but it was quite a lot of ground erm she went over and er some of it may be less easy to understand than other bits . |
| 29 | The apostle here gives two very clear and very solemn warnings about rejecting Jesus , about turning a deaf ear to him . |
| 30 | ‘ It is a very mystical and very powerful number , although twelve is more frequently found . |