Example sentences of "[be] that very [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence about who actually acts as an unpaid carer has to be pieced together from various statistical sources , but the best informed estimates seem to be that very few people are cared for by non-relatives , and that women provide about 75 to 85 per cent of relative care . |
| 2 | Although the electronics industry has changed greatly , possible the greatest change is that very little component level manufacture is done in this country . |
| 3 | Yet the reality is that very little money spent on science is spent on improving social welfare ; as Rose ( 1986 ) has pointed out , 50 per cent of the government 's science and technology budget in 1981–2 went on military research and development . |
| 4 | The point is that very few firms now invest large sums of money in a new venture unless they are very sure that there is a demand for it . |
| 5 | One of the damaging implications of the recession is that very few employers are now able or willing to offer employment to trainees . |
| 6 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |