Example sentences of "[verb] [art] very [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such a concentration upon ‘ women as carers ’ neglects the very important contribution of male carers ( Arber and Gilbert 1989 ) . |
| 2 | It was on the tip of Breeze 's tongue to ask what was the matter , but she knew that Susan would condemn that as being too impulsive ; so she endured the very uncomfortable atmosphere for the rest of the drive . |
| 3 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 4 | I was using the very fast 12-shot per roll film which estate agents use to make houses look good in the rain . |
| 5 | Given the very complex nature of France 's post-war politics , especially with regard to Algeria in the late 1950s it is hardly surprising that the SDECE , as the DGSE was then known , has found itself embroiled in numerous scandals . |
| 6 | Given the very recent appointment of a Head of Scientific & Technical Services , it has not been possible to formulate the likely requirements for laboratory computing for 1993/94 , but discussions during 1993 will enable us to plan this work from 1994/95 onwards . |
| 7 | Given the very real threat of political vetting , many in the community think it is better to say nothing than risk the wrath of government . |
| 8 | Most significantly , perhaps , given the very deep commitment here to social justice and equality , moves are under way to establish a modern Socialist party . |
| 9 | Given the very high target he had set himself , he managed to achieve most of his objectives , conveying to the audience the complexity of his subject , and the reasons for its interest . |
| 10 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |
| 11 | In other words , the requirement of leave may encourage the very sort of applications it is designed to weed out , especially given the very short time limit within which an AJR has to be commenced : it is safer to seek leave even if the applicant expects to settle the claim without further litigation . |
| 12 | Given the very patchy record of companies that have diversified into areas not related to their existing businesses or not requiring similar management skills , corporate managers ought always to bear in mind the option of planned divestment of inevitable dinosaurs with a view to returning cash to shareholders ( see Lorenz , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | I WISH to thank the very kind gentleman who gave me money when my purse was stolen from my handbag while I was shopping at Dunn 's store , St John 's Precinct . |
| 14 | To emphasise the very essential connection between the two modes of being , Hilton introduces the metaphorical interpretation of the Old Testament story of Jacob 's marriage to Leah and Rachel . |
| 15 | Since do evokes the very taking place in time of the infinitive 's event , it is obvious that it can not be conceived as arising prior to the latter , i.e. as constituting a before-position with respect to this event . |
| 16 | The Severn could not be considered a complete failure , however , for from it was developed the very successful Saro A.27 London flying-boat . |
| 17 | First the basic minimum was set at a very low level and was related to pre-war wages thus not reflecting the very steep increase in the prices of basic necessities . |
| 18 | This represents the very abrupt onset of a period of sustained high productivity and diatom mat flux . |
| 19 | This idiom encourages the very bad habit of believing that life is going to be as neatly packaged as a school textbook . |
| 20 | I mean the very small number of girls that did get to university at the turn of the century had to endure the most extraordinary trials and hardships . |
| 21 | Thank you for tackling the very painful subject of pet loss in your December issue . |
| 22 | Horrendous though the road accident statistics are , they do not include the very large number of pedestrians who are injured in ‘ pavement accidents ’ by trips , slips and falls where no vehicle is involved . |
| 23 | Great thanks are due to the Dyfed Wildlife Trust for organising the trip and being such good hosts , and especially to Jane Asher for taking the time not only to make the visit but also to meet the very short deadline required for the article . |
| 24 | This word , together with ‘ in me ’ , appear in every quatrain serving to establish the very personal relationship of the two concerned , evoking an ambience of intimacy which so rightly suits the theme of old age and approaching death . |
| 25 | The gallows humour disguises the very real misery that El Niño causes ; not only are there no fish to harvest , but the arrival of the rogue current , reaching down all those unfamiliar and unwelcome degrees of latitude , invariably causes heavy rains , soil erosion , landslips and added misery to the towns along the Peruvian and Ecuadorian coast . |
| 26 | One of the major causes of water hardness , calcium ( and magnesium ) bicarbonate has the very useful property of buffering , that is preventing or reducing pH changes resulting from addition of acids or alkalis . |
| 27 | Close beside Xi is the huge eclipsing binary VV Cephei , which has the very long period of 7430 days ; the next eclipse is not due until 1996 , when the magnitude will drop from its usual 4.9 to about 5.2 . |
| 28 | When it is worked hard it has the very nasty habit of blowing the engine oil filler cap/breather off . |
| 29 | Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future . |
| 30 | It will have been noticed that the Ligurians , in whose territory the city had been founded , bore the very Celtic name of Segobrigii . |