Example sentences of "very [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less diffuse benefits from conservation accruing over a long-time horizon and targeted very widely among the rural population are poor candidates for adoption and funding . |
| 2 | The term ‘ ancient monument ’ is defined very widely in the 1913 Act , and it is defined even more widely in the Act of 1979 . |
| 3 | In the late 1960s the House of Commons experimented with some special committees modelled very loosely on the American pattern but they did not last long . |
| 4 | This aspect is being addressed very successfully by the Medical Audit Advisory Groups . |
| 5 | I saw a taxi driving along very slowly on the other side of the road from our friends . |
| 6 | The library thus grew very slowly until the mid-nineteenth century , when the Treasury injected additional funding for book purchases , and the Botanical Society of Edinburgh ( now the Botanical Society of Scotland ) very generously donated its library of one thousand volumes of books and journals . |
| 7 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |
| 8 | And he had a status-symbol mega car which he drove very slowly in the middle lane , his knuckles white with the strength of his grip on the steering wheel . |
| 9 | Even her emotions had taken a recent battering , she reflected wryly , with the unpleasant outcome of her relationship with Mortimer Harrison following not so very long after the shattering loss of her mother … |
| 10 | Taverner made one innovation in English music : the use of a secular cantus firmus , the tune of ‘ Westron wynde ’ very obviously in the highest part , throughout a Mass . |
| 11 | During magnetic storms the geomagnetic field can differ very greatly from the modelled value : compass heading can change by several degrees , for example . |
| 12 | The likelihood of the success of this practice depends very much on the current state of the property market , and how badly the seller wishes to move . |
| 13 | Naturally all these ‘ morals ’ or ‘ meanings ’ can in themselves be accepted or rejected , depending very much on the varied experience of readers . |
| 14 | The experimental methods involved depend very much on the particular experiment , so they will not be discussed further in this chapter . |
| 15 | Never one to believe in quick or facile solutions , he cared very much about the national welfare ; and as he was one of the few British writers whose word carried any weight with the authorities — in contrast to such authors as Priestley who carried more weight with the public through his remarkable war-time broadcasts — he gave the impression of a certain helplessness in face of government policy which appeared to lack resolution . |
| 16 | Mum said , ‘ Thank you very much for the driving bed , Mr Bennet , ’ but he shook his head . |
| 17 | San Jose , California-based Tatung Science & Technology Inc is still very much in the Sparcsystem-building game and has revealed product development plans that include introduction of three new series of MBus-based superscalar systems in the next six months . |
| 18 | In fact it 's very much like the higher order networks that I talked about in the last lecture er I think it was the last lecture but one , and the networks which pre-process the data before they 're presented to the network by some higher function . |
| 19 | Looking very much like the arrogant duchess he had once accused her of being , despite her wet and muddy state , she drew herself up to her full height , and stated with flat finality , ‘ You can both do as you please regarding the land . |
| 20 | By that time DeFries had an office in Park Avenue which was very much like the old Gem offices in London . |
| 21 | OCTOGENARIAN American architect Philip Johnson once said : ‘ Architecture is very much like the oldest profession in the world . |
| 22 | For the past decade , the teachers at Gillingham have been working towards something which looks very much like the national curriculum , to ensure a smooth transfer to the new system . |
| 23 | In their very independence , these cultural practices take on a certain ‘ facticity ’ or ‘ materiality ’ , very much like the profane materiality of the practices of every-day life . |
| 24 | Today , the exterior of S. Sophia is very much like the eighteenth century model in the cathedral ( 239 ) . |
| 25 | However , to have any effect , it must be used very soon after the initial damage . |
| 26 | A spokesman for Ford in Britain said : ‘ Mr Booker was talking very generally about the European car market . |
| 27 | But those universities moved very largely into the public domain without sacrificing too much of their independence , and by improving the standard of their entry . |
| 28 | They were hardly affected by the deluge , even though their diet consists very largely of the very riverbed invertebrates which were so badly affected . |
| 29 | Your only course of action this April seems to be to avoid any further confrontations and concentrate on professional interests or projects specially designed to exploit your creative abilities , as very shortly after the full Moon in Libra on the 10th there should be a beneficial alteration in your work . |
| 30 | Notwithstanding the 1992 euphoria , EC books do not yet feature very prominently in the high street . |