Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] very [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular music has received very little assistance from the various Arts Councils whose job is to disburse monies from the state and local authorities . |
| 2 | Selling as a topic has received very little academic study . |
| 3 | The subsidy implicit in official guarantees has received very little attention . |
| 4 | So advanced was his method , that the apparatus for distillation has altered very little in 900 years . |
| 5 | The law on sex discrimination has provoked very little litigation in the educational context until the past few years , in contrast to the wealth of judicial consideration of the provisions concerned with sex equality in employment ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 6 | He has given very little account of how he spent his time , but he has said he spent the majority of that time with a travelling circus , both in this country and in the Irish Republic . |
| 7 | The simulated male orgasm has attracted very little attention by comparison with its female equivalent , not because it is n't as common , but because it 's in no one 's interest to publicize the fact . |
| 8 | In recent years the problem of accidents and accident prevention has come very much to the fore because the huge scale of the problem is now recognised . |
| 9 | The idea of reparation has come very much to the fore in discus-sions about punishment in recent years , and we shall have more to say about various reparative forms of punishment in Chapter 7 . |
| 10 | So I feel that our power has grown very much and that we are now hand in hand with the comrades in Namibia . |
| 11 | The past year has seen very few problems concerning the administration of drug testing programmes . |
| 12 | Sybil 's reaction has to be assumed : she has said very little . |
| 13 | The growing consumer movement , reflected in this instance by the burgeoning of self-advocacy , and the advent of the normalisation movement has impinged very little as yet on these strongly established professional traditions . |
| 14 | Diana has always been in danger of getting the giggles at the least appropriate moment , and age has done very little to cure her . |
| 15 | This hypothetical person ( in this case , female ) also has done very little sport or exercise for years . |
| 16 | As Jane Salvage points out , nurse training to date has done very little to make nurses into strong and independent people : |
| 17 | The expansion of educational and professional training opportunities for women has done very little to alter the concentration of female professionals in ‘ domestic ’ professions : most professional women are still teachers or nurses — both jobs closely allied with the traditionally ‘ nurturant ’ role of women . |
| 18 | So far he has done very little ‘ work ’ for me . |
| 19 | Owers , a surprise choice as substitute against Ipswich , has done very little training , and his non-stop style will soon show whether he has fully recovered from his injury . |
| 20 | ‘ Despite the environmental carnage around the wreck , the sullying of the Shetland name and the ensuing loss of livelihood at the heart of our fragile economy the Government has done very little to protect us from another spill , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Since [ J. ] has made very little development progress since the accident he has no potential to return to a healthy life and thus intensive care would not only be cruel but would artificially prolong his vegetative state . |
| 22 | But applied linguistics has made very little direct impact on either English mother tongue teaching ( though scholars such as Harold Rosen have clearly been well read in this field ) or on general Education . |
| 23 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 24 | By contrast , the Diocese of Truro has closed very few . |
| 25 | He has talked very little on foreign policy , ’ said one senior Gulf official . |
| 26 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
| 27 | In the sporting world she has produced very few truly outstanding champions . |
| 28 | The blood glucose level checked by the practice nurse or diabetic clinic is perhaps just in single figures but with close questioning the patient has had very little to eat for several hours . |
| 29 | In the past , Freud has had very little place in such sociological reappraisals , but he needs to be in alongside the other major thinkers about society . |
| 30 | Bob is still waiting to be summoned by Paisley Hospital , but luckily he has had very little trouble meanwhile . |