Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [art] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious that my aircraft was not in a condition for any further fighting and I flew a zig-zag course back to the 'drome keeping a very watchful eye on the sky around me . |
| 2 | It is possible to produce lace from any stitch design , including those meant for Fair Isle , which of course means that you could knit a cardigan or jacket in Fair Isle or jacquard and then knit a lace sweater using the very same stitch pattern to supplement it . |
| 3 | There 's a 500 square foot showroom displaying the very latest lighting products for external use and they include wallmounted , garden and underwater lights . |
| 4 | It is now run by a local catering college providing a very friendly service with limited but tasty dishes ranging from an English breakfast platter to good old jacket potatoes ( well filled ) or steak butty . |
| 5 | It is a total exercise programme involving the very latest scientific breakthroughs in the field of muscular development . |
| 6 | There was an accident on 16 March 1923 , when a steam traction engine pulling a very large boiler on a flat truck , collided with and overturned a tram in the narrow part of London Road , Mitcham . |
| 7 | A shorter trip for a long night out was also organised by friends before he retired with a private coach taking a very large party to Ayr . |
| 8 | We are encouraged to see murder as a particular act involving a very limited range of stereotypical actors , instruments , situations , and motives . |
| 9 | The team at IBM uses a laser beam containing a very narrow range of frequencies to bleach the molecules in one particular type of site , but leaving the others unaffected . |
| 10 | Do n't use extra lights unless you have to because they make small spaces very hot very quickly and they can make a classroom recording a very uncomfortable experience for everyone . |
| 11 | Erm , and we , we find although Amnesty does run er door to door collection which we are always encouraged to join in which we never have , which is I think always in June , in June now , it 's good time , it 's a good time of year for it , but that means going round putting envelopes in doors , going back and collecting them , the arguments on the doorstep about Amnesty , er going back again if people are not in and we , we as a , relatively small group covering a very big area we , we have n't felt able to do that , and we actually find that by standing in the street with each person having a tin for one or two hours , we can do quite well that way and er , that 's , that 's . |
| 12 | A new Museum and large shop offering a very wide selection of railway interest items , including ‘ 00 ’ gauge models made of compressed coal ( ! ) , has recently been opened . |
| 13 | A huge ‘ inverted funnel ’ of painted , coarsely plastered brickwork lies on top of an oak beam which acts as a fascia spanning a very broad fireplace , also lined with white-painted brickwork ( Plate 12 ) . |
| 14 | It is a general sales tax covering a very wide range of goods and , as its name suggests , is a tax on the value added at each production stage ( the difference between the value of sales and purchased inputs ) . |
| 15 | This large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structures on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical spiral galaxy . |
| 16 | The story ends with the teacher coming over and praising him for this reaction and Little Turtle receiving a very good report card that term . |
| 17 | Indeed the face may be a mask covering a very different existential reality from that which it portrays ( de Levita 1965 ) . |
| 18 | We have then , in the mid 1980s , a situation where two communities start to talk and meet with each other following a very long silence . |
| 19 | Iron possessing a very low carbon content , which makes it tough and malleable . |
| 20 | ‘ As a small library authority covering a very large geographical area , I would arrange for formal internal training programmes to be held for all staff ’ … |
| 21 | In the wind band , then , the clarinet family can form a complete entity covering a very wide range comparable with that of the orchestral strings . |
| 22 | If anybody wishes to leave you a message they simply press a key and enter the message using a very simple and friendly editor . |
| 23 | A big man using a very light club is in almost the same situation as with the experiment of swinging the stick . |
| 24 | This month 's choice is from Paul Savides of Stanwell , who asked for Ramble On , a song containing a very gentle verse pattern which contrasts greatly with the heavy , busy choruses . |
| 25 | The festivities start the previous night , the hypnotic beat of the drum and the traditional song having a very strong effect . |
| 26 | Just think of a very heavy pebble making a very steep-sided dimple — and a poor little beetle struggling to get out of it , but slithering deeper and deeper into it . |
| 27 | ‘ Hello there ! ’ the Doctor said , sounding to Bernice like an aged relative addressing a very young child . |
| 28 | However , one can increase one 's chances of detecting a decay by observing a large amount of matter containing a very large number of protons . |
| 29 | The clean sounds available cover a pretty good range , the EQ giving a very good account of itself throughout . |
| 30 | The M6 crosses on the Thornbridge Viaduct , a viaduct which has been extensively repaired last year using a very powerful water lance to cut out deteriorated concrete , a German tool being used in Britain for the first time . |