Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pillsbury would have come in with very strong ideas , and I do n't think they would have appreciated that at the National Gallery ’ . |
| 2 | They are , in effect , triggered off by very specific and local forms of social relationship and the threats they pose to everyday life . |
| 3 | He was struck by how similar the behaviour of different species can be , as in ( for example ) the courtship of different species of ducks which grow up in very different environments . |
| 4 | Now i d in our debate we , we had separately actually come up with very similar f processes . |
| 5 | As will be seen by the illustrations , Basler and Professional/AMI have come up with very different looking installations . |
| 6 | The only means he has of doing that is by accepting new clause S. He will have to come up with very convincing arguments to persuade any Hon. Member that he can not accept it , but it is framed in the most uncontentious way anyone could imagine . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , suppose you wanted to find out about very strong gravity-the kind you 'd get with a very , very heavy planet or star — but you have n't got such a star handy . |
| 8 | In the Middle East and Latin American countries , business discussions are carried out in very close proximity , involving physical contact , which many Western salespeople find strange . |
| 9 | If you are up so bright and early we will be able to set off in very good time . ’ |
| 10 | The power of the conscience can be built up from very early childhood by nothing more harmful than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love . |
| 11 | It is built up in very thin washes . |
| 12 | It is built up in very thin washes . |
| 13 | ‘ It is helpful to imagine that everything is made up of very small particles called atoms ’ comes , not from some yellowing dog-eared textbook but from the new National Curriculum . |
| 14 | His analysis suggested that the Dogon knew that the planets of the solar system went around the sun in ellipses , rather than in circles ; they knew also that the dwarf-star companion of Sirius ( the Pup ) existed and was made up of very compressed matter . |
| 15 | And not only the tabloids : with the exception of Lord Whitelaw , Tory leaders did little to distance themselves from the racist comments of Sir Nicholas Fairbairn and instead came back with very similar language — from ‘ swamping ’ to ‘ Mongol hordes ’ . |
| 16 | For : very nicely made out of very posh wood , well finished , with a good chunky neck and that very practical compound radius fingerboard , with top-class hardware to finish it off ( the Wilkinson is deservedly this year 's tremolo , while both the locking Schallers and the Seymour Duncans are excellent ) . |
| 17 | They fled to Dublin or England or came out in very small numbers and lived in closeted fearfulness of exposure , job loss and increasing isolation . |
| 18 | Human beings are comparably polymorphic because , in the remote past , relatively isolated , relatively small breeding populations were selectively adapted to fit in with very different environmental situations . |
| 19 | As teachers , we should notice that a clear understanding of the formal connections between sentences may help to explain one of the ways in which foreign language students sometimes write supposedly connected sentences , each of which is well-formed in itself , but which somehow add up to very strange discourse . |
| 20 | These are the pampering touches — they make your holiday special and add up to very good value for money . |
| 21 | Many thanks to Lucy Jackson who stepped in at very short notice to take Joan 's place . |
| 22 | Sessions taken by Jean Parmiter , June Bascombe , Ann Langford and Wynne Norris ( who stepped in at very short notice of Rita Quick ) at our area training days have been greatly enjoyed and appreciated . |
| 23 | The galaxy — catalogue number 3C 324 — is full of extremely bright glowing gases moving around at very high speeds . |
| 24 | If you have to go out in very cold weather , warm underwear and several light layers of clothing will help to keep you warm . |
| 25 | The diet in this , as in all Indian prisons , was laid down in very precise terms . |
| 26 | Lewis is coming up to very close backward point , a silly point we have Smith , a short leg we have Morris so there are a good wicketkeeper and the slip both with hands on hips , are five men round the batsman and a mid-on , a long leg , mid-off , cover and the point and Tufnell false run , erm stops in his run , John Hampshire signals no delivery and they start again , a hundred and nineteen for four at the moment the score . |
| 27 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 28 | Statements of attainment could be set out in very general terms , permitting a great variety of learning routes and greater autonomy for teachers in the classroom , but they would run the risk of being uninterpretable by SAT developers and teachers , or , given the political imperative to produce national assessments , interpretable in an arbitrary fashion . |
| 29 | £ Well , I think I really had better stop there , and then if you want to ask any questions erm we can go into them , but perhaps I could just mention two things that I would like to have said more about , one was , that you probably know , there were three or two major epidemics in Oxford , of what they call plague , but it was probably a form of typhus , in 1643 and 44 , and a good deal of sickness , I think , still in 1645 , and the other was that there was a very serious fire , which almost certainly arose from these kind of living conditions , because Anthony Wood says it was a soldier roasting pig , erm and I think a lot of cooking went on in very unsuitable situations . |
| 30 | CELEBRATIONS GO ON WITH VERY FINE EGGARS CONCERT |