Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just heard about a very good antique shop opening over at Warmly . |
| 2 | But the approach eschews vague yet important notions of fairness and integrity , and makes them subservient to what can be criticized as a very narrow view of cost . |
| 3 | The trustee company will also be paid an annual fee , normally calculated as a very small percentage on the net asset value of the trust . |
| 4 | Prost had come cheap — virtually free for the first year — and Niki had re-signed for a very large sum indeed . |
| 5 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 6 | The author craves to be forgiven for a very brief self-quotation in illustration of this from a work of his own : |
| 7 | It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction . |
| 8 | It is merely intended as a very easy-to-fit deterrent which a car owner may use in place of an alarm or , as in the author 's car , the unit can complement an existing security system which previously had no visual deterrent . |
| 9 | This brochure is only intended as a very brief introduction to Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley . |
| 10 | An assessment framework was developed by the SSCC study team for trial as a preliminary stage of the SMP scheme intended for the very lowest attaining third and fourth year students . |
| 11 | It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain . |
| 12 | Again Mozart 's composition of the arias was delayed through the very late arrival of some of the principal singers : |
| 13 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 14 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 15 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 16 | It was certainly regarded as a very radical measure at the time . |
| 17 | The culprit is sent for and denounced , for this is regarded as a very serious crime . |
| 18 | he was regarded as a very very smart man |
| 19 | A spokesman said : ‘ This escape is regarded as a very serious matter and the Director General of the Prison Service , Derek Lewis , has ordered an immediate and urgent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the escape . ’ |
| 20 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 21 | Initially Gordievsky was treated as a very important person and briefed Mrs Thatcher before her first meeting with Gorbachev.He was also flown to Washington to see Reagan before his meeting with the Russian leader in Geneva . |
| 22 | In this case the cylinder can be treated as a very large bucket . |
| 23 | ‘ We have come through a very critical emergency and come out in good shape , ’ aid NASA 's satellite programme director , Robert Adler . |
| 24 | But then he had already had enough to keep him and many others occupied for a very long time . |
| 25 | He may have come as a very self- satisfied person , after all , socially , he had made it . |
| 26 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 27 | For both males and females there is a U-shaped pattern of consultations , with the highest rates being reported for the very young . |
| 28 | If it was pointed out that in mixed-ability classes too little was now being expected of the very clever child , teachers tended to reply that such children could look after themselves , and required , or deserved , no special consideration . |
| 29 | She is wrinkled like a very new flower , |
| 30 | The attendants remembered him well : un bon enfant , they said , drank only barley water mixed with a very little wine ) . |