Example sentences of "[adj] or very [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 2 | The latter is a term used to refer to former ‘ white ’ areas of pre-independence Zimbabwe and are commercial farmlands , while the Communal Lands are peasant farming areas , of which nearly 27 per cent are subject to extensive or very extensive erosion , which compares with only 1.6 per cent of the General Lands . |
| 3 | And this year there 's been very little change altogether , you may have noticed that or very little change at all . |
| 4 | These results suggest that , although very high or very low poll tax demands could affect the performance of either party , levels of community charge were not themselves the prime determinant of electoral behaviour . |
| 5 | A straight line can be defined as a curve of infinite or very large radius . |
| 6 | The Moscow agreement was effectively dead and the most sensible move would be for the UN to sponsor simultaneous withdrawal of American and Russian forces to be followed by the establishment of a unified Korean government — ‘ It might not be a very democratic or very efficient Government , but almost anything would be better than the present absurd and dangerous division . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm not a fast or very good sketcher , evident by the early stages of the demonstration piece ! |
| 8 | I 'm not a fast or very good sketcher , evident by the early stages of the demonstration piece ! |
| 9 | Much of rural Britain has a non-existent or very rudimentary bus service , and about one-quarter of all the rural parishes of lowland England have fewer than one bus daily . |
| 10 | of river water in the United Kingdom is judged to be of a good or very high standard is something of which I am enormously proud . |
| 11 | In some localities market prices of residential property are directly linked to and affected by school catchment areas , where a school has a very good or very bad reputation . |
| 12 | Where the coast has deep water offshore a fall in base level means the formation of a vertical or very steep cliff . |
| 13 | The usual qualification required for admission to study for a research degree and for some taught postgraduate courses is a first degree with an excellent or very good classification ( first or upper second class honours in the UK ) . |