Example sentences of "[verb] very [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1988 considerable consternation was created , not least among teachers who had generally responded very positively to the TGAT report , by the leak of a letter about the report from the Prime Minister 's secretary to Kenneth Baker 's secretary . |
| 2 | Our kirk session was one which objected very strenuously to the use seven times of the male pronoun in the section on the holy spirit . |
| 3 | The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country . |
| 4 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 5 | As you will see , definitions of this type fit very badly with the institutions that I shall presently describe . |
| 6 | But if Marxist thinkers have not , on the whole , contributed very profoundly to the study of nationalism , much the same can be said of other major sociologists . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no doubt that Ramsay 's skill in navigation and cool determination contributed very materially towards the success of a most hazardous operation . ’ |
| 8 | Sociolinguistics is most successful in explaining sex differences when it looks very carefully at the conditions of particular communities ' lives and at what the people themselves consider the most important influences on their behaviour . |
| 9 | For the past decade , the teachers at Gillingham have been working towards something which looks very much like the national curriculum , to ensure a smooth transfer to the new system . |
| 10 | From the back the sack looks very much like the Condor , for it has the same capacity — 60 litres expanding to 80 . |
| 11 | But those universities moved very largely into the public domain without sacrificing too much of their independence , and by improving the standard of their entry . |
| 12 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |
| 13 | The perceptive teacher has already , as we saw , moved very decisively from the traditional view of his role as a primary information source . |
| 14 | But the early metal bands drew very heavily upon the blues influence … |
| 15 | ‘ We will focus very strongly on the important and valuable conservation work which is carried out here . |
| 16 | Snow had come very early in the year , but all of October had been so intensely cold that no one was really surprised to see such a heavy fall , although there had been no sign of it when they entered the hall . |
| 17 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 18 | If there is a need for legislation in areas of prison policy , surely this is one area that ought to be considered very quickly by the Government . |
| 19 | Fine roots grow very freely from the nodes where the root growth thickens at the lower nodes . |
| 20 | The production was first given at the Theatre Royal in York , yet it transfers very well to the larger auditorium of the Grand . |
| 21 | So Kalmu was launched on a highly successful career as a shamanistic seer and miracle-worker which enabled him to acquire both wealth and power and hence to compensate very effectively for the severe disabilities under which he laboured on account of his low caste origins . |
| 22 | Thus state day nurseries became confined very largely to the children of poor and needy parents , often single parents . |
| 23 | The crisis is seen as being located very specifically within the prison system — it is not seen as a crisis of the whole penal system , or of the criminal justice system , let alone as a crisis of society as a whole . |
| 24 | The grasping young usurer forces him to bear very hard on the firm 's debtors and to carry all the odium that this entails . |
| 25 | The City and the County Councils have looked very seriously at the erm traffic study that the Oxford Preservation Trust commissioned , and they are working on it and working on ways of implementing it within the City centre . |
| 26 | Erm , and I think Economic Development are actually contributing very fairly to the problems which are facing the County Council . |
| 27 | It 's starts very quietly at the stage , there 's very little you know |
| 28 | Driving very slowly over the narrow bridges spanning the fast flowing streams which stemmed from the River Ouse , he noticed that a massive flock of coots had flown in while he had been away . |
| 29 | To quote one of them ( D. M. Anderson ) , ‘ It is widely accepted that some , perhaps many , of the abiotic chemical reactions and processes leading to the origin on Earth of replicating micro-organisms occurred very early in the history of Earth in close proximity to the surfaces of clay minerals and other inorganic substrates . ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless , there seems to be a number of factors at play in the business that correlate very closely to the forces which I see at work in broader fields . |