Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [art] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sue Veasey , Steven Leiper , Shirley Cooke and Anne Tait rose to the occasion with excellent speeches to round off a very enjoyable event . |
| 2 | They were climbing quite rapidly and soon Maggie 's eyes took on a very troubled look . |
| 3 | The result rounds off a very successful season for Tracy , who returns to her studies at Newcastle University later this month . |
| 4 | More importantly , once we start nibbling naughty things our willpower slides down a very slippery slope . |
| 5 | As TGAT pointed out , pupils with special educational needs make up a very diverse group . |
| 6 | And , qui and most certainly demonstrated the need to set up the very same committee as we have set up . |
| 7 | These chargepayers make up a very small amount of the total value of outstanding community charge . |
| 8 | Further on , the idea of being a gentleman takes on a very hard and unromantic shape . |
| 9 | And then , in 1938 , a trawler fishing off the coast of South Africa brought up a very strange fish . |
| 10 | Well again the science area as a whole puts out a very large list of lecture titles , which it is prepared to deliver in schools . |
| 11 | OLYMPIC aces returning from Barcelona this week brought back a very silly story about cycling superstar Chris Boardman : ‘ Have you heard he 's been tested for drugs . ’ |
| 12 | When the police raided the manse of fellow-minister , Morris Mackenzie , in South Ronaldsay on Wednesday 27 February , their concern took on a very personal edge , |
| 13 | Love brings out the very best in both ourselves and others . |
| 14 | Such figures help to explain why those sentenced by magistrates make up a very much smaller proportion of the sentenced prison population on any one day ( 10 per cent in 1990 : Home Office , 1991 a ) than those sentenced by the Crown Court ( 90 per cent ) . |
| 15 | The new BARB service offers the agency the ability to carry out a very wide range of detailed analysis — arguably to the point where the analyst becomes totally overloaded with data . |
| 16 | Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England . |
| 17 | Avril found out the very next evening when Peter drove her to her daughter 's house to stay for a few days . |
| 18 | The 1987 election returned Tim Devlin to the Commons with a 35pc share of the vote but Labour and the Liberal Democrats put up a very strong showing with 33.7pc and 31.3pc respectively . |
| 19 | And the NAIC formula throws up a very different ranking from current widely-used measures . |
| 20 | Practical Running tracked down a very useful little booklet which we hope will help Dave , and others , to sort out such disputes in future . |
| 21 | For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history . |
| 22 | It is also illegal for manufacturers to give their product a misleading name , or to claim that it is made of a particular ingredient which in fact makes up a very small proportion of the product . |
| 23 | The conductor was highly critical about her performance and Nilsson ended up a very unhappy soprano . |