Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue . |
| 2 | In any branch of government , civil or military , promotion always came easier to a man who could add political interest to ability , and on occasion the active support of a great man could more than compensate for very limited abilities . |
| 3 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 4 | The correlation which Morgan and Engels make between very simple agriculture and herding and the gentile constitution is a rare example of a proposition of this kind which has held up fairly well in the light of recent research . |
| 5 | But Mr Coleman offered a glint of hope for Mr Bates , adding : ‘ This policy on ground-sharing was formed for very good reasons . |
| 6 | Coalport Minerva and Mason 's Ironstone are specialist units catering for very particular types of produce and both are important to the Group 's strategy of developing its valuable brands . |
| 7 | Mm , I do n't know about very attractive , not bad , ha ! |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the rapid uptake of the technology , with the implications this has for very substantial job displacement in some sectors , even if matched in the longer term by job creation elsewhere , is highly likely to create further problems for the economy and for society to handle . |
| 9 | and they have all these like really good ideas Head Office and area office and everything like it counts for very little unless you 've got the support of the |
| 10 | We did n't wait for very long in the did we ? |
| 11 | Although the squeeze on profits occurred during very different time periods , the falls were quite similar : profit shares declined to around 80 per cent of peak levels almost everywhere . |
| 12 | Just a , I find that she almost looks as if she 's been out in the sun and that it sort of looks like very strong sunlight on her face which is a shame really . |
| 13 | Three sardines tinned in tomato sauce , mashed , plus tomato slices ; or mashed tuna mixed with chopped green pepper and chopped cucumber , on a bed of shredded lettuce ; or cooked , skinned and mashed mackerel , mixed with very low-fat soft cheese , lemon juice and black pepper . |
| 14 | These may be large- or small-scale databases designed with very specific educational aims , to cater for a particular topic or part of a course , or for more general use in the school library . |
| 15 | Gesualdo , after publishing four books of not particularly individual madrigals in the Rore-Wert tradition ( 1594–6 ) , brought out two more in 1611 in which chromatic alteration simultaneously in several parts produces the most extraordinary effects of dislocation ( often alternating with very commonplace diatonic passages ) . |
| 16 | Five feet from her sleeping mat the dead king lay on a low trestle , swaddled in red velvet decorated with very old beaded embroidery . |
| 17 | Some tests done in was n't there , in one of those prisons , and I think they tried with very violent , very aggressive er , prisoners there , and it , they eventually found that the colours that calmed them down most of all was pink . |
| 18 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |
| 19 | She wore the New Look , a coat of beige gaberdine which fell in two swaying , graceful pleats from her waist at the back ( the swaying must have come from very high heels , but I did n't notice her shoes ) , a hat tipped forward from hair swept up . |
| 20 | For so long there has been no regulation or regulatory body who can impose standards upon the canopy designer and manufacturer and , as a direct conslequence of this omission , the quality of both have varied from very high to ‘ good grief is that thing legal ! ’ , all lwithout legal recourse . |
| 21 | But there is usually an effective distinction from the institutions of simple commodity production even where the cultural work is quite clearly a commodity it is almost always , and often justly , also described in very different terms — and from the institutions or power and administration , in which purposes and objectives are inherent . |
| 22 | And so what tends to happen is that at the end of a groined bit of beach the area immediately down-drift , that is to the east on the Sussex coast , starts to suffer from very serious erosion . |
| 23 | In London and America it had notices which ranged from very good to absolutely appalling . |
| 24 | It has been exported since 1817 , when it first went to the USA and Canada , soon spreading into Mexico and South America and readily adapting to environments which ranged from very cold uplands to hot , semi-desert plains . |
| 25 | Our challenge in the A&E department is to work within very tight cash constraints and to provide the best wound care without limiting access . |
| 26 | So far we have considered in very general terms some of the differences in the manner of production of writing and speech . |
| 27 | Now we are getting somewhere in our understanding of the behaviour of these fish for at night time they can often be easily caught in very clear water . |
| 28 | It attracted considerable public attention and was also regarded as proof in certain circles that many elements in the society of Northern Ireland whose ultimate political purposes differed in very marked degree could cooperate in peaceful and lawful demonstration in favour of certain common and limited objectives . |
| 29 | Finally , it is of great importance to discover more about how the listener 's brain identifies what it receives from the ear ( stages 4 and 5 ) ; many experiments have shown how sensitive we are to very slight acoustic differences and how flexible we are in being able to adjust to very different speakers . |
| 30 | A thermal imager uses detectors of cadmium mercury telluride , which detect infrared radiation when they are cooled to very low temperatures . |