Example sentences of "from very " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't work if the component was made from very fibrous wood which might lift with the glue but it works in a lot of circumstances which defy the ‘ sash cramp ’ solution . |
| 2 | As a result , diabetics suffer from very high levels of sugar in their blood . |
| 3 | Under this category there are also requests for assistance which amount to acts of community welfare , such as calls to lift aged and disabled people on to and off the toilet as well as into bed , and calls from very distressed pensioners and young children concerning lost pets ( on the police as a social service see Punch 1979b ; Punch and Naylor 1973 ) . |
| 4 | My thoughts were interrupted by several loud bangs from very close by , then two flares lit the sky , hanging eerily just above the trees , then drifting out of sight a short distance away , followed by a long burst of machine gun fire . |
| 5 | A burst of fire in the street outside , uncomfortably close , could only have been discharged from very near their original position in the gutter . |
| 6 | Then also talking to children themselves about the death of others is a subject that adults shy away from very strongly . |
| 7 | ‘ He gives the orchestra very strong signals from very subtle impulses . ’ |
| 8 | This raises the possibility that the genes present today in the chromosome of E. coli have not all been derived from the same ancestral population in the distant past — as have the genes of mice — but have come from very distantly related ancestors . |
| 9 | Sometimes , they enable us to extract a lot of information from very few cues . |
| 10 | The participants ' answers were scored and their grand totals then checked against where they fell on a continuum of five risk levels ranging from very low to very high . |
| 11 | The flat surface of the upper mandible of the bill of a flamingo enables it to take in microscopic food from very shallow water only millimetres deep . |
| 12 | Walking : There are a wide variety of walks to be had , from very gentle to very strenuous , depending entirely on what you want . |
| 13 | So the shore-line creatures adopt several different strategies for survival ; and animals from very different phyla — notably coelenterates , molluscs , crustaceans , and echinoderms — have found ( various ) ways of coping with the intertidal zones . |
| 14 | The Libyan attack occupied both the minds of Reagan and the public around the world , although from very different viewpoints as to the morality of the action . |
| 15 | Extreme ultraviolet radiation arises from very hot objects and has a wavelength between 100 and 912 angstroms , shorter than that of normal ultraviolet radiation ( see ‘ A new wave in astronomy ’ , New Scientist , 30 September 1989 ) . |
| 16 | From very precise description of the scaly tail to cosmic battles . ’ |
| 17 | And suddenly we 'd all be in Amsterdam or Paris or something like somebody 's idea of America for the evening , or else it would still be our own dear city , but from very definitely another era , all striped Regency wallpaper and framed Angus McBean photographs of Vivien Leigh ; or another time there 'd be nothing but opera on the sound system for a whole week , there 'd be complaints of course but Madame would say , I 'm just trying to give you boys an education , and Gary at least would be very happy . |
| 18 | Apart from very strict vegan diets , where no animal food of any sort is eaten , the average daily intake is between 350 and 450mg . |
| 19 | As trends move away from very hierarchical forms of management the challenge is to find , not so much the furthest point away from you to which to delegate , but the most appropriate . |
| 20 | The second is that it can obviously vary from very poor to very good , and an individual 's welfare will be different at different times . |
| 21 | It has been exported since 1817 , when it first went to the USA and Canada , soon spreading into Mexico and South America and readily adapting to environments which ranged from very cold uplands to hot , semi-desert plains . |
| 22 | It is probable that the Dexter was developed from very small Kerries but the two breeds are now genetically distinct , though the longer-legged type of Dexter is potentially a useful gene reservoir for the rare Kerry . |
| 23 | Although there may not be any benefit on mortality from very good diabetic control immediately following myocardial infarction , it is clearly undesirable to have uncontrolled diabetes at this time . |
| 24 | Our approaches were from very different angles in time and geography but almost identical in impression . |
| 25 | A moment 's reflection will show there have , from very early times , been ‘ industrial ’ and other special-purpose buildings — ‘ henges ’ , fogous , shrines , kilns , mints , abattoirs , amphitheatres , salthouses and many others . |
| 26 | Governors come from very different backgrounds and experience : they may be politicians , parents , teachers , workers in industry , commerce or the community . |
| 27 | We may generalize from very limited samples : for example we may say , echoing the words of Michael Flanders ' and Donald Swann 's lovely song of patriotic prejudice that the Irishman ‘ sleeps in his boots and lies in his teeth ’ , that the Welshman is ‘ dishonest , little and dark — more like monkey than man ’ or that the Scotsman is ‘ mean , bony , blotchy and covered with hair ’ . |
| 28 | Instead , it relies on coupling two C units , both of which are cheaply available from very convenient sources such as natural gas , coal or the otherwise useless ‘ heavy ends ’ of crude oil . |
| 29 | Leith 's prose is as emotionally loaded as he can make it — Darwin himself ‘ confessed ’ that imagining the eye to have evolved was almost absurd ( Leith of course makes no mention of Darwin 's reference to the sequence of eyes from very imperfect to almost human in invertebrates ) . |
| 30 | Depending on the particular species , dodder vines range from very slender forms as fine as human hair to coarse ones a few millimetres in diameter . |