Example sentences of "[verb] to be very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what they have told us is that the first body was too far decomposed to be very helpful . |
| 2 | Each case is considered very much on its merits — there are no hard and fast criteria — but they would need to be very sure of your motives in adopting . |
| 3 | If you do n't fall into the professional category however , you will need to be very sure that you are going to get a lot of use out of the People disk to justify the cost . |
| 4 | Contrary to what some people believe , you do not need to be very rich ; nor for that matter is it too late to start thinking about investing once you are over the age of 55 . |
| 5 | Evidence to justify the court 's declining to decide a case ( if such a course is ever justified ) would need to be very strong and specific . |
| 6 | The approach suitable in specialized indexing tools for medical research will need to be very specific in order to differentiate between closely related subjects . |
| 7 | Being only 5′ 2½″ tall myself I too feel very strongly about the unfairness of this , but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it except to warn you that in these circumstances you do need to be very accurate in counting calories in order to achieve a good rate of weight loss . |
| 8 | Even if our ears could respond to sounds of this pitch , we would need to be very close by to eavesdrop on their conversations . |
| 9 | But , if the wife has been in receipt of the advice of a stranger whom the creditor believes on reasonable grounds to be competent , independent and disinterested , then the circumstances would need to be very exceptional before the creditor could be held bound by any equity which otherwise might arise from the husband 's conduct and his wife 's actual failure to understand the transaction … |
| 10 | When she has , through the process of grieving , faced the reality of her loss , you will need to be very patient with her through the period of depression that will follow , in which she may feel slowed up and extremely lethargic because , for a while , life will appear to her to have no further meaning or purpose . |
| 11 | You do n't need to be very near bat , do you ? |
| 12 | If we are going to have Policy E two then it does need to be very clear as to the direction that the the strategic direction that the districts need to take with regard open land and that is the the subject of the the other questions that you 've put before us . |
| 13 | These men do n't need to be very tough to put the fear of Sigmar into your foe — he wo n't know how hard they are until he faces them . |
| 14 | But to do this the bank really does need to be very steep and , being a slightly hit-or-miss approach , is one more suitable to match-play than stroke-play . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll need to be very careful , personally , in dealing with an addict . ’ |
| 16 | Any woman in the early 1970s did not need to be very observant to notice that there were serious dangers of being discredited by name in the media . |
| 17 | If training officers themselves are not common , staff who can devote as much time as they would like , to training , ( whatever their title ) appear to be very rare indeed . |
| 18 | These results ( Bard et al 1987 ) appear to be very good , but when one looks at the ranking of the output utterances from which the recognition rates were computed , 30 out of the 79 best-matching utterances were not output first , although they ranked equal first in score . |
| 19 | In technique and effect , relaxation therapy , hypnosis and autohypnosis , autogenic training and meditation appear to be very similar . |
| 20 | Meadow 's ( 1980 ) review is more positive in separating the linguistic academic achievement from cognitive achievement ; in the latter , deaf children appear to be very similar to their hearing peers . |
| 21 | Selecting the most suitable kind of pool-liner can be rather confusing ; prices vary widely for products that , to the uninitiated , appear to be very similar . |
| 22 | Equally , I think we like to set up experiments first before plunging for something , so you have got in Countess Thorpe , or the Stantonbury Campus , experiments in a fuller kind of democracy which appear to be very successful if a little controversial . |
| 23 | The prices of pharmaceutical products have frequently been reviewed by competition authorities , and at first sight the mark-ups appear to be very large . |
| 24 | ‘ They appear to be very comfortable . |
| 25 | Females visit the lek only to mate , and they appear to be very particular about whom they choose . |
| 26 | Trans-splicing introns are expected to be very resistant to intron-loss , because the correct replacement of genomic copies of trans-spliced genes can not be achieved by simple homologous recombination and should therefore be extremely rare . |
| 27 | Whether the new production for which there appears to be a market be large or small , the general rule will be that unless the price is expected to be very low that portion of the supply which can be most easily produced , with but small prime costs , will be produced : that portion is not likely to be on the margin of production . |
| 28 | The server is expected to be very cheap , perhaps as low as $50,000 . |
| 29 | Kenner 's fantasy is being discussed in terms of the view — with which Kenner can be expected to be very familiar — that the goals of a biographically-minded criticism are in some measure fantastic . |
| 30 | Energy applications for muon catalysed fusion , Jones ' main research line up to that time , were appearing to be very remote and in August 1988 Jones decided to mount a vigorous effort to pursue the piezonuclear fusion . |