Example sentences of "[vb base] very [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , there seems to be a number of factors at play in the business that correlate very closely to the forces which I see at work in broader fields . |
| 2 | Gently but firmly explain your point of view and listen very carefully to what is said in return . |
| 3 | If you listen very carefully to the background music , you might hear a clue to who has committed the crime , that 's if you know Morse code . |
| 4 | The longitudinally-banded Melanochromis react very strongly to other fish with the same pattern and are very hard on their females . |
| 5 | There are times when attacks on the lesbian and gay communities seem very clearly to be an attempted stirring-up of popular hatred as a diversion of attention from society 's real problems , and times when the readiness of the government to pander to that hatred looks even more sinister . |
| 6 | And the things that actually go through our heads we refer very often to as cognitions . |
| 7 | The hill towns of central Italy witness very obviously to two historical facts : to a continuity of life far surpassing the English towns we have compared with them , and to a love of independence , of a way of life in which turbulence and freedom and constant war were endemic factors . |
| 8 | GA Life 's with-profit past performance results compare very favourably to other companies in the UK market , while its free asset ratio has strengthened further at the end of 1992 . |
| 9 | That is something we emphasise very strongly to patients after they have had a myocardial infarct ; that they are working their way back to becoming just like everybody else . |
| 10 | Students respond very positively to placements in industry , and teachers find that students ' confidence , self presentation and maturity are all enhanced by the experience . |
| 11 | Less than a third agreed they came by their fees easily , while half felt they made a positive effort to support and understand clients and 59 per cent that they respond very positively to requests for help and advice ( although these two groups of responses should be seen in the light of that ‘ distress purchase ’ attitude , where lawyers are unlikely to be negative when a client suddenly calls up offering business ) . |
| 12 | Secondly , the biceps respond very quickly to training and are relatively easy to develop compared to the triceps . |
| 13 | These problems point very clearly to the need for training , and many library systems would benefit from the introduction of regular training courses ( of up to a week in duration ) on book provision . |
| 14 | Surfaces so treated dry very rapidly to a messy , streaky white finish at which dilute vinegar or acid cleaner should be sprayed . |
| 15 | Herbs are one of the best groups of plants to grow in containers on the whole , as they mostly take very kindly to this form of cultivation . |
| 16 | But it did not , she found , come very naturally to her . |
| 17 | The requirements relate very closely to the due diligence provisions as contained in the Food Safety Act 1990 and in effect employers have to identify the potential hazards within their business , ensuring that through training , these can then be eliminated or minimised . |
| 18 | The social stratification pattern illustrates the fact that the proportions of each variant in a person 's speech relate very clearly to the person 's social class . |
| 19 | As the Tory Party debated the ‘ make-believe gangsters strolling about the streets as if they are the monarchs of all ’ , the conference hall rang with an entirely familiar pattern of complaints and accusations : ‘ the leniency shown in the past by the Courts of this country ’ ; the ‘ lack of parental control , interest and support ’ ; the ‘ sex , savagery , blood and thunder ’ in films and television ; and the ‘ smooth , smug and sloppy sentimentalists who contribute very largely to the wave of crime ’ so that young people were ‘ no longer frightened of the police , they sneer at them ’ . |
| 20 | ( Granite masses originate at depth and rise very slowly to the surface as diapirs over millions of years . |
| 21 | The repressor molecules bind very stably to an ‘ operator ’ region of the chromosome ( O ) , and block the synthesis of messenger RNA from the genes G 1 , G 2 , and G 3 . |
| 22 | Many British companies , including the one that I visited yesterday , sell very satisfactorily to Japanese companies in this country and that provides a vast market for supplier companies . |
| 23 | The development loops correspond very closely to the table of action but here we emphasize the four stages , which partly overlap ; they depend on each other and may also involve a return to an earlier stage in the light of feedback . |
| 24 | The business interests of the group were consolidated in 1924 under the name of The Wellcome Foundation Limited and the Company aims of today still correspond very closely to those of its founders , namely the discovery , development , manufacture and sale of products to promote the health and hygiene of man and animals . |
| 25 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 26 | On the shores of Brittany live flatworms which behave very similarly to the diatoms . |