Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she either becomes terribly unfashionable , or wears very expensive hats that another woman 's husband has to pay for . ’ |
| 2 | All this means that individuals feel estranged and confused by an event that has very powerful consequences in their life but which they did not witness and feel very frightened of . |
| 3 | That the Earth revolves on its axis is , of course , a fact that has very important implications for our lives . |
| 4 | It is one that presents very summarized information on a cash accounting basis and relies heavily on the investigatory abilities of both the staff of the C & AG and the various Select Committee . |
| 5 | A very good theory will be one that makes very wide-ranging claims about the world , and which is consequently highly falsifiable , and is one that resists falsification whenever it is put to the test . |
| 6 | The Home Office research and statistics department is excellent and produces very good figures , but unfortunately we do not have on record the figures for 12 centuries ago . |
| 7 | Despite all this , I still liked the Kamco — it 's well specified , incorporates the latest technology , and offers very reasonable value for the money . |
| 8 | The first covers only five weeks , for a specific product , and involves very specific sizes and dates . |
| 9 | The tool is also lightweight , compact , and has very low vibration levels , making it comfortable to use even for long periods . |
| 10 | Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's badly run down anyway — like most of us since the war — and has very little resistance . ’ |
| 12 | While not as light as some alternatives , it looks smart , is easy to wash and quick to dry and has very useful pockets . |
| 13 | It is grown on the slopes of the Himalayas in Pakistan and has very thin grains and a surprising fragrance . |
| 14 | Safrane 's cabin is plush , solid in feel and looks very high tech . |
| 15 | He does know that they 're powerful : ‘ I got used to playing around with Tony 's guitars , and although the fact that he sometimes detunes and uses very light strings does n't help the output , these pickups are very powerful — a fair bit more powerful than conventional humbuckers . ’ |
| 16 | A powerful UV/Vis monochromator based detector allows wavelength selection by the turn of a dial and allows very low detection limits . |
| 17 | Equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) with n=5 indicate that P was initially high ( 0.8 ) and shows very little change ( i ) , but v 1 almost doubles after the tetanus ( j ) . |
| 18 | The provision of opportunities here for introducing and monitoring new materials is now beginning to be realised and opens very exciting possibilities . |
| 19 | It could be argued that ‘ skunk works ’ might be useful in Quadrant 2 , but a special interest session of the Industrial Research Institute 1986 Fall Meeting concluded that such an approach is less likely to succeed when , for example , the project requires too advanced a technology and/or the transition to manufacturing is complex and requires very large scale-up . |
| 20 | Pornography — like homosexuality , which he has similarly crusaded against — is an ambiguous activity and creates very marginal offences in any standard police hierarchy of crimes . |
| 21 | It is a spin-off from development work done on the Kodak disc camera , which has a circular disc of film instead of a roll , and lets very amateur photographers take usable photographs in unfavourable light . |
| 22 | The only problem is , she is Ugandan and speaks very little English , has no idea how to get home and has no money for transport . |
| 23 | When a therapist becomes aware that such a situation is developing it is most important that he discusses this with the patient and sets very clear limits on the relationship . |
| 24 | It is functional , and gives very encouraging results . |
| 25 | First flown in piston form in May 1959 and then introduced as a turboprop of quite alarming STOL capabilities from May 1961 , the Porter family is still in limited production at Stans and commands very high regard in the market as the ultimate in aerial ‘ jeeps ’ . |
| 26 | At Barton Farm , Orpheus looked to his right and runs very thick fingers across what appears to be more a grille than the strings of a lyre . |
| 27 | The dense tubular system which probably represents residual smooth endoplasmic reticulum is discrete from the open canalicular system ( Behnke , 1970 ) but forms very close relationships with it in certain areas of the cytoplasm ( White , 1972 ) . |
| 28 | The reason for this is that the silicon connected to various pins is as near to being an insulator as makes very little difference . |