Example sentences of "[conj] very [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | What is surprising , however , is that such stories are told using the same , or very nearly the same , language . |
2 | A few days after Hitler 's repetition of his ‘ prophecy ’ on 30 January 1942 , the SD reported that his words had been ‘ interpreted to mean that the Führer 's battle against the Jews would be followed through to the end with merciless consistency , and that very soon the last Jew would disappear from European soil ’ . |
3 | The idea goes back to Anderson 's work in the 1930s , and Chandley 's explanation is that very occasionally the whole set of donkey chromosomes might cling together and pass to one of the egg cells while the entire horse set goes to the other . |
4 | Our hospital organisation has grown up with no plan , with no system ; it is unevenly distributed over the country and indeed it is one of the tragedies of the situation that very often the best hospital facilities are available where they are least needed . |
5 | I was exhausted , no sleep last night , and very little the previous nights . |
6 | Although many attribute to Lo Tak-shing possession of the most byzantine — and very possibly the cleverest -mind in Hong Kong politics , few claim to understand quite what he seems to be doing with it . |
7 | The tries , three in the first half , when the USA had the wind advantage , were well taken , leaving the USA to ponder how a game where they had parity in the scrums and very much the upper hand out of touch , winning the lines-out 16–5 , could have been lost by such a comprehensive margin . |
8 | This is Chaplin 's third collaboration with Live Theatre and director Max Roberts , and very much the weakest . |
9 | On its debit side there is sometimes observable a certain strange ordering of priorities in moral codes and very often the systematic and conscious neglect of many aspects of African culture , particularly that great cultural legacy , music and the dance . |
10 | They are the sort of people ( and very often the same people ) that in Britain you meet in CND and in scores of cluttered offices dedicated to under-regarded and under-rewarded causes . |
11 | Until very late the previous night I had been writing about Krakatoa and trials by Fire , and was deeply asleep when the cat woke me . |
12 | Cos very often the older people . |
13 | ‘ The Three Holy Kings — March ’ strides out a first with gallant confidence , but very soon the left hand accompaniments grow even more daring and complex in harmony . |
14 | Universality refers to the fact that totally different systems can exhibit the same route to chaos — the same not just in that they show the same broad features , but very closely the same including quantitative details . |
15 | Since then the position has slowly improved but very much the same dilemma still remains . |
16 | But very often the major part of an individual 's activities stem from the duties and reciprocal obligations which fall to him by virtue of his roles as a social person . |
17 | To attract the best patrons the movie-houses had to ape the conventions and the standards of theatres and opera-houses but very quickly the whole industry realized that the appeal of the movie palaces was not unrelated to the fact that all customers had to be treated the same and so they became temples of a new classlessness . |
18 | ‘ Joe ’ Burke was regarded in Australia as very much the English gentleman . |