Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 2 | Prior to their preparing a Four Yearly Report , however , for the majority , formal review of this kind has been unusual : more than half claim that little or very little formal review activity took place in their school before the LEA scheme was introduced . |
| 3 | If there is a single function relating arousal and memory it seems likely that it takes the inverted-U shape which is often suggested to describe the relationship between task performance and memory , with memory impairments occurring at very low or very high levels of arousal . |
| 4 | Derek Bluston , of the solicitors Malkin Janners , says : ‘ To get involved in litigation you either have to be very rich or very poor . |
| 5 | Then , as now , to play a National Tri-Plate you either had to be very rich or very lucky . |
| 6 | The latter is a term used to refer to former ‘ white ’ areas of pre-independence Zimbabwe and are commercial farmlands , while the Communal Lands are peasant farming areas , of which nearly 27 per cent are subject to extensive or very extensive erosion , which compares with only 1.6 per cent of the General Lands . |
| 7 | As for the two factors together , the risks appear greatest where very low and very high ( 35 and over ) maternal age combines with short birth intervals and where women over age 34 have children after intervals of 6 and more years . |
| 8 | The frail or very elderly account for an increasing number of pensioners , and that emphasises the importance of nursing home and residential care . |
| 9 | And this year there 's been very little change altogether , you may have noticed that or very little change at all . |
| 10 | Well they er sort of that or very dark grey . |
| 11 | These results suggest that , although very high or very low poll tax demands could affect the performance of either party , levels of community charge were not themselves the prime determinant of electoral behaviour . |
| 12 | Very high or very low readings should be investigated , as they will have a direct bearing on the toxicity of any pollutants you are trying to rid your system of . |
| 13 | After ranking , townships were classified as having very low , low , medium , high or very high levels of unemployment and opioid use amongst the young . |
| 14 | The term has consistently been interpreted as meaning ‘ whatever here and now is very costly or very unusual or very painful or very difficult or very dangerous , or if the good effects that can be expected from its use are not proportionate to the difficulty and inconvenience that are entailed . ’ |
| 15 | Would you have said he was slim or very slim ? |
| 16 | You can fiddle with brightness settings , depending on which scanner you use — and WSP supports most — should you need to , but we have found little need to adjust the settings unless a page of text has been particularly light or very dark . |
| 17 | A straight line can be defined as a curve of infinite or very large radius . |
| 18 | Anyone who 's attacked who is very old or very young fills us with deep concern . |
| 19 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 20 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
| 21 | In recent years , it has become clear that very simple measures of reaction time ( particularly choice reaction time ) and variability in reaction time correlate very highly with ordinary IQ measures , to an extent that makes much of the theorising in this book inapplicable , Similarly , measures of inspection time have shown uncommonly high correlations with IQ , particularly in below average subjects . |
| 22 | It is clear that very many pupils find great difficulties with the concept of percentage . |
| 23 | By the 1870s , when it became clear that very little investment capital was going to flow from private sources or joint-stock ventures , and that the German people as a whole now viewed the development of the economy as part of the business of creating a strong and unified Reich , the Bank of Prussia became essential to all major German long-term investment plans . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it is clear that very large sums of money will have to be spent to put Eastern Europe on its feet and ensure that it stays democratic . |
| 25 | Out of these different forms of prevention , it is clear that very few are actually preventive in nature . |
| 26 | In 1918 Eliot wrote of the need for artists to be at once very primitive and very sophisticated ; he praised Lewis 's Tarr as being ‘ like our civilization criticized , our acrobatics animadverted upon adversely , by an orang-outang of genius , Tarzan of the Apes ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ It is a very mystical and very powerful number , although twelve is more frequently found . |
| 28 | Kalchu had brewed some millet beer months ago to ferment out ready for today and it was sweet and clear and very strong . |
| 29 | The apostle here gives two very clear and very solemn warnings about rejecting Jesus , about turning a deaf ear to him . |
| 30 | It gives a clear and very welcome signal to all the people in Northern Ireland of their determination to find a political solution . |