Example sentences of "and very " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , although nobody wishes to be exploited with low wages and very difficult conditions , it is frankly better to find the ways and means of presenting yourself somehow , than not perform at all . |
| 2 | And very good it was , too . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , after the potted shrimps we had the beef — and very good it was , too . |
| 4 | ‘ Careful and very clever , Inspector . |
| 5 | Sow a good 3in beyond the edges of the intended lawn and very lightly rake over with a spring tine rake . |
| 6 | Finally , and very importantly , make the features of the gradient work for , not against you . |
| 7 | Although bud break is early , leaf development is delayed and very variable . |
| 8 | The effects of electrical discharges on glass fibre and carbon fibre structures are uncertain , but it is clear that any moisture in the material would be turned to steam by a flash and would certainly cause delamination and very expensive damage . |
| 9 | Although still nominally under the CID organizational structure , and still holding the title of detective , I was detailed to deal with the new and very ambiguous ‘ prig ’ — the drug user . |
| 10 | As Cameron opened with his usual explanation of the Act , he did not know that the Reverend William McIvor , a tall whiskery man with coarse orange hair and very pale blue eyes , had stayed outside his manse , in the cover of a thick yew tree , and was listening hard with a hand cupped round his ear . |
| 11 | He speaks softly and very reflectively , with few flights of passion . |
| 12 | In Canada it came to be known as ‘ The 10 Lost Years ’ , which were devastating for those on the prairies and very difficult for those in the cities . |
| 13 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 14 | But that other ‘ landscape ’ , quieter perhaps , but like an underground stream , unconscious and very persistent , never failed to obtrude itself on him : ‘ It is strange that even now prayer is my natural language , ’ he said , in ‘ Lines From My Grandfather 's Journal ’ ( The Spice-Box Of Earth , p10 ) which powerfully reflect his own self-questionings ; the ‘ tyranny ’ was asserting itself . |
| 15 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 16 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 17 | Wheels are very difficult to date accurately and very detailed examination would be needed to establish its age . |
| 18 | Yet , and very often , even a single emphatic conventional gesture performed in a moment of stillness can be tremendously effective and make a strong point in what may otherwise be a continuous flow of dance . |
| 19 | Or must they remain part of the ‘ mass ’ , in other words the corps de ballet , because they are needed to create the proper atmosphere , state the location , suggest the mood and very often respond to whatever is taking place ? |
| 20 | They usually start with a promenade kept to a strictly slow tempo ( the lassu ) and then break into an extremely fast movement of turns , pas de bourrée and very controlled hops ( the friss ) . |
| 21 | The dancers drawing these straight , angled and very slightly rounded lines have to work accurately and be correctly aligned with their neighbours in each temporary grouping . |
| 22 | The majority of bird netting is likely to be knotted ( this produces a fine and very flexible net ) or knitted , but the thickness of the thread is likely to be more important than the type of assembly . |
| 23 | But in the opening paragraphs of Crime and Punishment consciousness has found a home in the unnamed and very physical young man who leaves his stuffy little top room and slips downstairs like a cat , out into the street . |
| 24 | More important , and very surprising , we are told that ‘ he did not repent of his crime ’ . |
| 25 | We have here perhaps the most delicate of all points of contact between his life and his art : hence the impression that further and very private issues are involved in , even shielded by , the assertion that ‘ a man of the 1840s could not create Bazarov ’ . |
| 26 | The neatness comes afterwards ; it gets imposed when a long and laborious and very untidy process is shortcircuited by the observation ( which Dostoevsky himself may never have made ) of a direct link between Stavrogin and the underground man . |
| 27 | A toneless , disjunctive fact , droll and very uneasy , one of those amputated thoughts I have just mentioned and –so a sensation , a crawling sensation of the time being out of joint ; there is more Hamlet to The Possessed than what is personal to Stavrogin , ‘ the Prince ’ as he first appears , though on the surface of his mind Dostoevsky evidently meant Prince Hal , not the Prince of Denmark . |
| 28 | Like Svidrigailov , Kirillov comes to the fore very late and very fast in the process of composition , but unlike Crime and Punishment 's self-slaughterer the man in The Possessed parades an entire philosophy and theology of suicide . |
| 29 | Stepan reverses the news-from-Peshawar standpoint of the novel by wondering what ‘ they ’ , those powerful officials in the metropolis , are thinking about ‘ us ’ and most especially about himself ; the picture of Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky as a marked man because of the liberal views he held and very faintly expressed long ago , both frightens him and feeds his self-importance . |
| 30 | Help is context-sensitive and very useful , though there can be some delay in retrieval sometimes prompting the worry that the program has not received an instruction . |