Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The median survival of a year or more with symptoms controlled in most of those treated represents a very satisfactory outcome . |
| 2 | Parallel to this education and close round the school , the life of the community goes on — the child plays and is expected to play a very full part in it ; fetching water and firewood , minding little brothers and sisters , running errands , buying and often selling in the market , performing religious duties at Koranic schools , catechist classes or in traditional preparation for circumcision and other initiation ceremonies , alongside all the watching , the imitation , the play , the chit-chat and the ‘ mucking about ’ which is part of growing up everywhere . |
| 3 | If a wound string is designed to incorporate a very heavy core — which is easier to produce , since it 's less likely to break during winding and a thin wrap goes onto the core much easier — then it 's less likely to sound good , because it 's too stiff . |
| 4 | The bridge humbucker has been designed to give a very hot response indeed , and I found that even the centre single coil kicked the amp quite nicely . |
| 5 | Havel visited Moscow on Feb. 26-27 , holding talks with President Gorbachev on bilateral relations and developments in Europe , including the unification of the two German states ( on which the two leaders were reported to hold a very close position ) . |
| 6 | In fact the effluent which was being discharged contained a very high quantity of zinc which was killing the fish . |
| 7 | By the same token the free-swimming trilobite may be expected to have a very wide geographical distribution , for oceans would be no barrier to it . |
| 8 | Quantum analysis is a branch of statistics designed to test a very specific hypothesis , namely that a set of measurements is ‘ quantised ’ , and thus occurs in multiples of some basic measurement unit . |
| 9 | Judges are overworked and they are unfairly expected to show a very high degree of technical knowledge in some cases . |
| 10 | In no way a carbon copy of the Windows application , the DOS package has its own features and failings destined to attract a very different audience . |
| 11 | The initial whisker crystal or filament is often highly bent and the growth layers can be seen to exert a very strong straightening action on the bent filament , such that , by the time the sinuous initial thread has grown to a millimetre or so thick , it is in , variably straight . |
| 12 | The Palisade units produced by Forest Fencing are individually machine turned to give a very neat appearance . |
| 13 | It was decided to send a very strong letter to the Director of Highways including photographs of children trying to cross the road at a peak time for traffic . |
| 14 | They offered no theory as to why the child behaved in such a way , no external event was allowed an explanatory status ; rather the outburst was reflected back to the personality of the child , who was said to have a very angry liver ( the liver being the seat of inner states ) . |
| 15 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 16 | Thanks to some very skilful hanging each of the four rooms used has a very distinctive flavour all its own . |
| 17 | This was realism with a vengeance ; a true story had been used to depict a very real penal practice and the whole thing was very deliberately set by the studio in a specific historical context . |
| 18 | Some elements of the event may be thought to suggest a very ancient origin . |
| 19 | Chromium is a mineral which is thought to play a very important part in the regulation of blood sugar in the body . |
| 20 | And to make a successful television career , Sue Lawley has had to tread a very careful path of being acceptable ( mainly to men ) as both a woman and a ‘ professional ’ . |
| 21 | If he had been asked what Roland Michell was , he would have had to give a very different answer . |
| 22 | and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two |
| 23 | This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units . |
| 24 | There are no hansoms ; and if there were , a file of them would be needed to transport a very ordinary Sahib 's effects . |
| 25 | You 've got to have a sharp brain to work out the tactics and you 've got to have a very good technique , so it 's a demanding sport . |
| 26 | I think you need a lot of knowledge , especially nowadays when they 're insisting on all this national curriculum , you 've got to have a very broad ability . |
| 27 | And really and truly you 've got to have a very big piece of ground to need one of those have n't you ? |
| 28 | As well as the hundreds of demonstrations by artists and craftspeople covering all art forms , this year The Artist has helped organise a very much larger Materials and Techniques section where you will be able to try out art materials , ask questions and buy products from many of the UK 's leading art materials ' manufacturers . |
| 29 | In fact , cross-national differences in bargaining structures have been shown to produce a very significant impact upon a country 's entire industrial relations system . |
| 30 | The bare infinitive is used to produce a very different effect from that of the to infinitive in exclamations , as can be seen in ( 3 ) above and in : ( 30 ) I say anything disrespectful of Dr Keen ? |