Example sentences of "[adv] very [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Versailles displayed an economic shortsightedness ; writing in 1921 R. H. Brand recognised that in the next 5 years reparations would not " be large enough very seriously to alleviate the great financial problems which … the nations of Western Europe must have solved " . " |
| 2 | We are all perhaps very much formed by our inheritance . |
| 3 | In addition Mr Patient is very likely to have had one or two close friends , probably from some ti me back in his life history , who may be dramatically affected by his death , even though they may not be visibly there close by or apparently very emotionally involved . |
| 4 | This is true of the Great Little Trains with Bala lake apparently very badly hit , the Ffestiniog being quiet and the same can be said of the V of R in Aberystwyth where for most of June early July just 4 coaches serviced the two trains a day up the valley . |
| 5 | ATF1 interacts with P100 but only very weakly compared with CREB ( figure 6B , compare lanes 1 and 2 ( which contain two different extracts ) with lanes 3 and 4 ) . |
| 6 | Subjective risk ratings , surprisingly , were only very weakly related to the objective risk of accident as assessed by the actual number of accidents divided by the average traffic flow . |
| 7 | Only very slowly did intellectuals concede that the movies had been shaped as much by politics as by the showmen . |
| 8 | CFCs are only very slowly removed from the stratosphere and , with residence times in the range of 65–120 years ( Brice et al. , 1982 ) , virtually all of the CFCs ever produced ( since they were invented around 1930 ) should still be present in the stratosphere . |
| 9 | Only very superficially does it appear to be significant . |
| 10 | Her eyes were only very slightly glazed as Fernando Serra tightened his grip on her hand and led her out of the Guadalquivir suite . |
| 11 | These simple response systems , often only very loosely integrated , comprise elementary programmes with strategic designs . |
| 12 | The distinction between sheep of hardy and other breeds should be abolished because it is only very loosely related to degree of handicap . |
| 13 | He sang an endless string of tuneful but meaningless words that were only very loosely attached to the long , narrative poem that went on inside his head . |
| 14 | This tree is one of the most commonly planted shade trees in India and elsewhere , yet only very lately has its phenology been fully investigated . |
| 15 | Walpole-Bond noted that eggs were only very exceptionally laid before the end of April , but in recent years nests with eggs have been found in February ( the 26th , 1967 ) , and have been noted fairly regularly in late March and early April . |
| 16 | On land , where for the most part rocks are not built up by deposition but broken down by erosion , deposits , such as sand dunes , are only very rarely created and preserved . |
| 17 | Indeed , children only very rarely stay in communal arrangements as they grow up . |
| 18 | Only very rarely does something of significance appear at auction I can think of only one important major bronze in the last ten years . |
| 19 | Only very rarely has the patient carried out the act with suicidal intent in mind . |
| 20 | Only very rarely has it been reported in the lung . |
| 21 | Sometimes , but only very rarely do I touch a piece of bliss when I grope in the dark . |
| 22 | It is only very rarely uncovered . |
| 23 | The zonation more fully reflects the differing degrees of agricultural handicap in different land areas than the UK equivalent ( which only very recently distinguished even two zones ) . |
| 24 | Pardy 's previous convictions were of a relatively trivial nature , being ordered out of several county towns by magistrates for persistently collecting without a licence in the street — rattling his tin in support of a variety of causes but only very recently turning his attention to those connected with animals . |
| 25 | However , while there is extensive evidence of assortative mating ( O'Donald , 1980 ) , of the importance of plumage characteristics in courtship ( Williams , 1982 ) and of female preference for males who can defend superior breeding territories ( Pleszczynska , 1978 ) only very recently has it been demonstrated that consistent female choice for any continuous morphological character in males is an important source of variation in male reproductive success . |
| 26 | Only very recently has there been a development of more comprehensive concern for the disabled . |
| 27 | Indeed , policy developments in each of these three areas have largely taken place in complete isolation from the others ; only very recently has the importance of social security to the effectiveness of ‘ community care ’ been recognised in any official document ( House of Commons Social Services Committee , 1990 ) . |
| 28 | While there has been some work on aspects of constitutions — particularly voting rules — only very recently has there been a return to the constitutional perspective associated with the classical constitutional theory associated with Montesquieu and Madison . |
| 29 | The implications are only very gradually dawning on us . |
| 30 | Only very gradually did a small number of educated critics come to see that although quite different from the Russian and European film the Hollywood and Hollywood-inspired film had developed its own qualities and that the great mass audience for that kind of entertainment had been responding quite genuinely to positive influence . |