Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ MPs do n't seem to go for the very expensive end of the Indian restaurant market , ’ says Peter Grove . |
| 2 | Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that |
| 3 | The latissimus dorsi account for the very impressive ‘ V ’ shape of athletes and bodybuilders . |
| 4 | Again Mozart 's composition of the arias was delayed through the very late arrival of some of the principal singers : |
| 5 | HCI cares about the very young too . |
| 6 | For both males and females there is a U-shaped pattern of consultations , with the highest rates being reported for the very young . |
| 7 | As for national health service resources , the hon. Gentleman will know of the very large real-terms increases that have been made — in excess , in fact , of the real-terms increases promised by the Opposition at the last general election . |
| 8 | If it was pointed out that in mixed-ability classes too little was now being expected of the very clever child , teachers tended to reply that such children could look after themselves , and required , or deserved , no special consideration . |
| 9 | This lies behind the very large number of habitual activities that make up the routines of ordinary day-to-day life . |
| 10 | Obviously it may be too early to answer some of these questions fully , but the fact that I , in common with the majority of arts teachers working in secondary schools in this country , have been grappling with the very difficult process of assessing , marking and moderating the work of the first batch of pupils to take the GCSE examination will , I believe , give added force to some of the things I intend to say . |
| 11 | And equally I disagree with the very poor performa poor sorry poor performance given er er in particular to the A nineteen north . |
| 12 | We eat well and sleep in the very comfortable barn ; the war has gone on — over the horizon . |
| 13 | The answer surely lies in the very curious political situation of early modern Scotland . |
| 14 | My Lords , the short answer to this lies in the very extensive powers which Lord Chetwode [ the settlor ] had over the assets of the settlement and so over the share capital of Attleborough . |
| 15 | All of this helps us to realise that a great miracle lies in the very handing on of faith . |
| 16 | The time-scale ranged from the very short-term to the comparatively long-term : from daily to yearly , with many intermediate steps . |
| 17 | If audio-visual items could be included in the very simple card catalogue systems previously devised for school libraries , they felt that the retrieval argument was over : a very comfortable conclusion for those who did not In any case understand indexing principles very thoroughly , were not very interested in the activity and valued most of all their own face-to-face contact with the clientele , making up in personal ( and psychologically boosting ) service for the shortcomings of their own indexes . |
| 18 | The Convention can not be invoked in the English courts to strike down ministerial or bureaucratic actions which imperil free speech : such actions can only be attacked on the very limited " judicial review " basis offered by domestic law , ie if they are unreasonable , irrational or perverse . |
| 19 | I like this very much as an easy summer skirt — three pieces knitted right across your machine , hooked back on to fewer stitches for a small yoke to avoid bulk at the waist — equally becoming to the very slender or larger lady . |
| 20 | I muttered something about not wanting to trample over the very different memories they must all have of Conor , talked a little about the family 's surprise at finding that their son had such an extensive social and business life . |
| 21 | Weasels , in any case , very rarely tackle mature rabbits , preferring to concentrate on the very small ones and on even smaller mammals . |
| 22 | James Courtney crashed at the very fast Mathers cross bend on the first 250 race , but was reported last night to be sitting up in hospital . |
| 23 | The need for user studies has been widely discussed in the past decade , and Chapter 4 of this book looks at the very considerable recent literature on the subject . |
| 24 | The south face is dominated by the very impressive , well-nigh awesome , sheet of the central Pleasure Dome wall , where a sound ability on at least E3 territory is necessary . |
| 25 | what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke . |
| 26 | Shirley Hughes 's The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook ( TS403 — one cassette ; 33 minutes ) read by Thora Hird is a lovely listen for the very young and more than tolerable for their elders . |
| 27 | But when due allowance has been made for the very various functions of castles , as administrative and social as well as military centres , it remains true that they were formidable military weapons , and that some of the most remarkable technological advances of the twelfth century were made in the improvement of siege engines and of a castle 's defences . |
| 28 | What really happens during the very early or late stages of the universe , when gravitational fields are so strong that quantum effects can not be ignored ? |
| 29 | He had been studying soil fungi since 1916 , and wrote a survey of the known inhibitors in 1940 , but his effective contribution to medicine came after the very modest success of tyrocidin and the very great success of penicillin . |
| 30 | Earning a basic wage of around 30 cents an hour , they are forced to spend most of the year away from their families living in the very poor hostel accommodation provided . |