Example sentences of "[adv] very [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We are naturally very disappointed to hear of Mrs Rorstad 's problems and her complaint will be investigated . ’ |
| 2 | The vulnerability of ICBMs is not insoluble , merely very expensive to solve . |
| 3 | This says that while it may be all very well to make philosophical statements about evil , evil nevertheless is real , and not merely an absence ; and what 's more it can be resisted , and what 's more still not resisting it ( in the belief that one day Omnipotence will cure all ills ) is a dereliction of duty . |
| 4 | In fact , camcorders are not only very simple to use — they 're fun . |
| 5 | These are not only very expensive to run by they are also dangerous given the huge amounts of paper lying around the place . |
| 6 | ‘ I am offering this reward on behalf of the club because we are obviously very anxious to put an end to these recurring , despicable acts , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It is obviously very prone to bias and reactivity effects ; it can easily be subverted by stacking samples ; and the credibility of the report depends completely upon the creditability of the practitioner . |
| 8 | They were perhaps stemmed from innocence , but they were very searching and very real questions , and he was obviously very excited to ask them and to listen to some of the answers . |
| 9 | They were perhaps stemmed from innocence , but they were very searching and very real questions , and he was obviously very excited to ask them and to listen to some of the answers . |
| 10 | It was so very good to have Andrew and Irene McLellan with us throughout , and we welcomed Andrew 's idea of holding daily prayers for a hungry world ’ in the Chapel . |
| 11 | ‘ We have so very much to talk about . ’ |
| 12 | Here , it is so very easy to forget what time of the day it is or even what day it is . |
| 13 | Erm so very easy to learn the rules for arithmetic , like say the rules for adding . |
| 14 | I was so very pleased to see , in next to the front row , Dr Kelleher and his wife . |
| 15 | ‘ I was so very sorry to hear of his early death . ’ |
| 16 | I am so very glad to have one of his lovely paintings and feel proud to have worked with such a gifted man . |
| 17 | ‘ So very glad to hear it , ’ said Dr Neil Cochrane brightly . |
| 18 | I am so very glad to hear that my darlings are all making such splendid improvement . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm so very glad to hear it because I 'd like you to take us back there now . ’ |
| 20 | Mildew is not so very difficult to stop in the early stages , and there are several fungicides that will give it a severe check — all the chemical manufacturers have their own products and trade names which , like everything else , are constantly being improved and changed — but by far the most important point to bear in mind is that it has to be hit early and repeatedly . |
| 21 | ‘ He was so very quick to grasp things and , at the time , I did n't have anything else … ’ . |
| 22 | This is why it is so very important to keep " on the move " . |
| 23 | They always mean that as a compliment , but it 's a dubious one when you think about it : is it so very satisfactory to look MUCH better to one person than you do to twenty million ? |
| 24 | ‘ Was that so very hard to ask , Leonora ? |
| 25 | Oh , Hilly , am I so very hard to talk to ? |
| 26 | The longer you throw , the more , good boy , it 's so well hidden in the leaves , it 's exactly the same colour that 's the trouble this time of year , but no , life is a funny thing , and I find it personally very hard to believe that only two months ago , I mean what is it nine weeks ago , and I suddenly had an enormous view |
| 27 | She was a little drunk ; the drink and the intimate darkness made it suddenly very easy to talk . |
| 28 | He 's suddenly very eager to help us . |
| 29 | A small jeweller in Switzerland , who for years had made good profits by flagrantly copying de Chavigny designs , using inferior stones , low-carat metals and cheap workmanship , and then passing them off as de Chavigny originals through an impenetrable network of shady dealers and retailers , found its bank was suddenly very glad to extend credit for new workshops and an expansion programme . |
| 30 | ‘ In the case of Colosseum II , and early Whitesnake , in order to even be audible , I went to using flatwound then groundwound strings , which are physically very hard to play . |