Example sentences of "[vb past] a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child was not present : her father had taken what he termed a very tired little princess upstairs , given her her bath and put her to bed . |
| 2 | I thought the two rivers both rising on Plynlimmon and then flowing their separate ways like brother and sister then meeting down under the Severn Bridge — I thought that provided a very nice theme for this beautiful border country |
| 3 | and he always provided a very smart car , and the first policeman to drive the police car was his own chauffeur , who left him and joined the police force . |
| 4 | It was instead the product of a partnership between a county council which provided industrial estates and infrastructure , a district council which provided public sector housing and infrastructure and two major developer builders working in tandem who provided a very large element of private housing . |
| 5 | All the 90 companies reporting listed a very high success rate ( 75%–90% ) in all five areas . |
| 6 | Studies such as that by Ken Roberts ( 1968 ) however , indicated that such ‘ choices ’ were largely illusory for in practice young people entered a very narrow range of occupations . |
| 7 | As we stepped through the portal , we left the late Mughal haveli behind and entered a very different world : inside we were confronted by a gleaming pink boudoir that could have been the dressing-room of a 1950s Hollywood film star . |
| 8 | The first time I fished it I hooked a very big barbel which I estimated at 11lb to 12lb . |
| 9 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |
| 10 | I think I 'm right in saying that she drew a very short straw and is the first reading in the Lords of the bill to privatise the railways . |
| 11 | 4 Stieglitz immediately revealed that he comprehended the drawings in terms of qualities that he associated with a woman , but he also believed ( or came to believe ) that their imagery described a very specific dimension of O'Keeffe 's femaleness — her sexual nature . |
| 12 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 13 | Einstein originally proposed a very small cosmological constant in the hope of balancing the tendency of matter to make the universe contract . |
| 14 | Here the discussion paper proposed a very strict rule : the assessment was to be made by reference to the contractual maturity of the debt , and no consideration was to be given to facilities which would permit it to be re-financed . |
| 15 | When we started building the university twenty years ago we encountered a very unusual problem . |
| 16 | The architect charged a very low fee , but the client disputed it and the architect was to ill-advised ( or not advised at all- as to decide to sue . |
| 17 | They reiterated the old CEB faith in the imperatives of central technical control , and brushed aside potential gains from decentralisation , but themselves maintained a very weak financial control over the divisions . |
| 18 | The Cartwright family , for example , who maintained a very large estate at Aynho , Northamptonshire , valued the work of a kitchen maid at £3.10s per year . |
| 19 | What Stirling instinctively realized was that the German and Italian air forces posed a very real threat to an advance by the Eighth Army and that if those enemy aircraft could be neutralized on the ground , the offensive would stand a much greater chance of success . |
| 20 | Given the preponderant influence of the US within the anti-Axis alliance , this hostility posed a very serious threat to de Gaulle . |
| 21 | His name overpowered all objection , and we found a very good house and civil treatment . ’ |
| 22 | She found a very strange Fred indeed . |
| 23 | Wedgie [ Tony Benn ] then made what I found a very effective speech , pointing out that we had got to look at the problem in domestic as well as international terms . |
| 24 | She opened it , and found a very small cake with the words EAT ME on it . |
| 25 | He found a very strong field on and around the stone , much greater than background levels . |
| 26 | We found a very nice you know we once had this push up horse , we now found a push up doll which is sort of quite nicely coloured and this little spinning top which I think is quite nice . |
| 27 | When at last she reached Lynne , she found a very angry confessor , and his ‘ full sharp words ’ are almost the last we hear of Margery ; we do not know what happened to her after her book was finished . |
| 28 | The doctor found a very high alcohol content in their blood . ’ |
| 29 | A short trial with JANE conducted by Richard Phillips in Nottingham , using volunteer PGCE students , found a very high success rate . |
| 30 | A test taken within an hour of her death found a very high level of insulin in blood taken from Becky 's heart . |