Example sentences of "[prep] very [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |
| 2 | Some schools in fact survive because parents are operating under the mistaken assumption that the school is run and organised in very much the same way as the one that they attended as a child , even more so when it 's the same school . |
| 3 | It must have been favoured by selection , in very much the same way as , say , the hard shell of lobsters was favoured . |
| 4 | In very much the same way as I suggested with my analogy of the German and English rowers ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 5 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 6 | Language teachers can be seen as involved in very much the same sort of process — their principles correspond to hypotheses , their techniques to experiments . |
| 7 | A more recent sample , in very much the same tradition would be Minsky 's : |
| 8 | On each occasion , the Republican administration was forced to stimulate the economy in very much the same way as the Democrats would have done . |
| 9 | In the sixth scene those poor French wretches on the raft were represented in very much the same posture as that in which they had been first delineated by Monsieur Jerricault . |
| 10 | In particular it is not known whether they have been formed in relation to present sea level , in very much the same way as it is not known whether the wavecut platform round Britain was formed entirely in relation to present sea level . |
| 11 | However , it must be admitted that many of the greatest choral composers also restricted their horizons in very much the same way . |
| 12 | In Russia the latter element was uppermost , and peasants were conscripted as sailors in very much the same way as for the army . |
| 13 | However , until very recently the accepted wisdom ( CRC , 1977a ) has been that only manufacturing jobs can provide the sort of economic basis needed for sustained job provision , and that neither hill farming or forestry , as shown in Table 5.10 , or service employment and tourism could provide a long-term solution to rural employment problems . |
| 14 | Until very recently the essential oil trade was almost exclusively confined to the perfume and flavours industries — where synthetic or nature identical substances were included without a second thought . |
| 15 | Such imaging centres have always been a part of the American scene , another reason why they are so much more advanced in their presentations technology than we are , but until very recently the only major European one was in Brussels . |
| 16 | Until very recently the standard present-day answer to that question , at least among anthropologists , has been that man has culture and birds do not . |
| 17 | Until very recently the theoretical issues raised by literary study have been largely ignored in British academic teaching and research . |
| 18 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
| 19 | And you wo n't need reminding what happened here at very much the same time last night . ’ |
| 20 | At very much the same hour Edmund Mortimer came out of the deep sleep that follows fever , and opened his eyes reluctantly , remembering instantly and ruefully a day and a night of indignity and discomfort before he had lost all sense of place , time and direction , and finally of his own identity . |
| 21 | It is natural to consider the dynastic marriage policies of this period in the same context as warfare , since both were engaged in by the kings and great nobles for very much the same reasons ( see pp. 456–7 ) . |
| 22 | Of course these superior critics disliked the way his films displayed ‘ the grossest sentimentality ’ , but this was the price that had to be paid for his mass popularity and after all , as William Hunter reminded his readers , Dickens had been far more sentimental for very much the same reasons . |
| 23 | But a bat uses its sound information for very much the same kind of purpose as we use our visual information . |