Example sentences of "[conj] very [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is surprising , however , is that such stories are told using the same , or very nearly the same , language . |
| 2 | Genuine republican feeling , in so far as it existed at all in the major States , was a nostalgia or very occasionally an aspiration , never a programme . |
| 3 | Finally , a detectable amount of genetic evolution in the brain and mind can occur within only thirty or forty generations , or very roughly a thousand years . |
| 4 | A few days after Hitler 's repetition of his ‘ prophecy ’ on 30 January 1942 , the SD reported that his words had been ‘ interpreted to mean that the Führer 's battle against the Jews would be followed through to the end with merciless consistency , and that very soon the last Jew would disappear from European soil ’ . |
| 5 | As part of this review I hope that very soon the reports of our disciplinary and appeal committees will be more informative in terms of details of particular cases . |
| 6 | I accept that very frequently a decision made which directly affects one person or body will also affect , indirectly , a number of other persons or bodies , and that the law does not require the decision-making body to give an opportunity to every person who may be affected however remotely by its decision to make representations before the decision is reached . |
| 7 | Or would you rather have the security of knowing that , whenever in the years to come your employer may decide , for whatever reason , that you should go , you will be cushioned by a generous notice period which allows you to look for something else without the fear that very shortly the money will be running out ? |
| 8 | There is also the supplementary point that very commonly the " web-groups that are thus linked together treat their solidarity as deriving from common substance , in contrast to the alliances , which link " we " and " they " , which rest on obligations periodically expressed in gift-giving and services . |
| 9 | The idea goes back to Anderson 's work in the 1930s , and Chandley 's explanation is that very occasionally the whole set of donkey chromosomes might cling together and pass to one of the egg cells while the entire horse set goes to the other . |
| 10 | The president , according to the constitution has the executive power that executive power depends to a large part on the willingness of congress to provide the legal framework moments in which there is harmony and cooperation between president and congress tend to be exceptional rather than er a regular feature of the American system and if er the president manages to get something through congress , you can bet that very quickly the president will face some defeat in congress shortly thereafter to remind the president that the United States does not have , contrary to the popular press , does not have a presidential system of government . |
| 11 | I do n't deny that very often a potential for intelligence is underdeveloped because the environment lacks sufficient stimuli ; but however much the environment is manipulated , unless the genetic material is good , there is a point beyond which such manipulation can not have an effect . ’ |
| 12 | Moreover , this sense of insecurity and consequent bias towards caution may be further reinforced by the fact that very often the sort of decisions we are discussing are made in hospitals , where doctors are made aware of the views and reactions of another interested group , the nursing staff . |
| 13 | In it Pomponius reflects on the difficulty of enforcing modal legacies , and the fact that very often the obligation they generate is merely moral rather than legal . |
| 14 | Our hospital organisation has grown up with no plan , with no system ; it is unevenly distributed over the country and indeed it is one of the tragedies of the situation that very often the best hospital facilities are available where they are least needed . |
| 15 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 16 | So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person . |
| 17 | Blyth was historically a separate place from Tyneside , although very much a part of the North East Coast . |
| 18 | Although very much a townsman , Eliot was , like G. K. Chesterton , a great advocate of country life , and he shared the attitude of many townsmen that most other people ought to live in the country . |
| 19 | ‘ Our punters , although very much the suit and tie brigade , do like a good pint . |
| 20 | Although very much the ‘ poor commons ’ paying for the most part a 5 per cent tax on their goods , they were anything but an undifferentiated whole . |
| 21 | Take-off time arrived and the oil temperatures were still somewhat below the criteria , but I opened the throttles and very shortly the tail was up and I was heading down the short runway into a brisk headwind , pointing straight for the little pub outside the camp that had become a second home for us . |
| 22 | Now Somerset is a long way away , but the first stopping place that they can find where they will be left undisturbed for a few days is in the Vale , and very shortly the Vale will be designated , so they 'll have to travel even further into west Oxford , which is going to be , if we 're not careful , the only undesignated district in the whole of the south of England , and I would n't want to be a resident of west Oxford in these circumstances . |
| 23 | But in returning to the question of research projects in academic libraries , it is useful to consider generally and very briefly the nature of the various projects . |
| 24 | What , for instance , would Ken have in common with Andrew Ray , who was then just twenty-three years old ( Ken was now forty ) and who made known and very clear the attraction he felt for a pretty girl ? |
| 25 | And very soon a bungaloid growth replaced the orange groves . |
| 26 | Word spread quickly and very soon a crowd had gathered . |
| 27 | Then he whistled several times and very soon a blackbird appeared on the ground in front of him . |
| 28 | Stephanie followed the Hip and Thigh low fat diet and very soon the pounds began disappearing . |
| 29 | She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation . |
| 30 | So she went on eating , and very soon the cake was finished . |