Example sentences of "[adv] in a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was obviously in a very bad mood . |
| 2 | But in social time and social space we make just such distinctions and we do so in a very consistent way . |
| 3 | He does so in a very subtle manner . |
| 4 | So in a very broad sense agriculture is going to have to con contribute to China 's , China as a whole 's economic development |
| 5 | So in a very short time we were in the air . |
| 6 | So in a very different world to that of Shakespearean comedy , a must harsher abrasive world erm again th that bit where she 's ge get , do I get the impression that most of you found yours much more difficult to get into |
| 7 | Hinrich Medau evolved a simple method of teaching piano improvisation so that even students who have never played the piano before and have no previous knowledge of music almost all learn to play well for movement , even if only in a very simple way . |
| 8 | It is worth trying , even if only in a very small quantity . |
| 9 | M paratuberculosis has been cultured from Crohn 's disease tissues but only after prolonged incubation and only in a very small minority of cases . |
| 10 | We must conclude then that , at the very least , a conditioned inhibitor is a stimulus having motivational properties that a latent inhibitor lacks ; only in a very restricted sense , therefore , can the latter be regarded as an instance of the former . |
| 11 | As well as needing a licence , they were for example allowed to advertise only in a very restricted way , were not allowed to employ people to canvass for loans , had to include an interest rate in loan contracts , and risked having the terms of a loan altered by a court if they were judged ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ — interest over 48 per cent a year was taken to be excessive unless there was some evidence to the contrary . |
| 12 | In this sense a verdict may be given on its policies , but only in a very general way . |
| 13 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 14 | It might be added that when text is input for phonological analysis these problems are if anything magnified , and for these purely practical reasons it was possible in , for example , the Belfast project , to use computers only in a very limited way for text processing ( as opposed to computation , where various statistical packages were extensively used ) . |
| 15 | If it implies that no time-lag is detectable between elements of an experienced " complex " , then this is true only in a very limited sense . |
| 16 | The Race Relations Act 1976 deals only in a very indirect way with the causes of racism and is more concerned with its effects . |
| 17 | Three or four years ago we were involved in this only in a very minor way . |
| 18 | He allowed himself , or claimed to allow himself , no beliefs about the world which could n't be justified if , if , even if only in a very loose sense , by scientific canons of procedure . |
| 19 | The whole essence of Conservative Party that 's put before the Environment Committee today and I remind us that it was only in a very short few months ago that this Council might be at cuts of up to twenty million pounds in order that low in the very country . |
| 20 | Because of the population turnaround in many rural areas , the definition of a rural community in a widespread and confused literature has become an elusive concept ( Lewis , 1979 ) and although most parts of the UK have reached Time C in Figure 5.4a , some areas are characterized by a mixture of repopulation and depopulation in Zone III , and depopulation and repopulation in Zone II , so that the hallmarks of both the population and depopulation quadrants of Figure 5.4b can be found together in a very small area . |
| 21 | We will be living together in a very small space . |
| 22 | We tried to live together in a very simple fashion of worship and life . |
| 23 | From a staging point of view the PGA and the Tour , working together in a very harmonious way , should be delighted with the way it all worked out . |
| 24 | Nevertheless in a very large institution such as the University of London , with large and geographically scattered subject collections , a divide and rule system is inevitable , and in contrast to Hindle 's findings , a survey on the ‘ Overlap of acquisitions in the University of London Libraries ’ found that duplication in this kind of situation was in fact relatively small . |
| 25 | As a result of the reforms , already in a very short period we see improved services , shortened waiting lists , and so on . |
| 26 | The application of traffic calming in Britain has thus been almost imperceptible , implemented here and there on new housing estates , and usually in a very diluted and faint-hearted manner . |
| 27 | The car has been featured on a number of occasions at Rolls-Royce Ansty , when Geoff has treated retiring colleagues to a very special trip home in a very special car . |
| 28 | After work , I used to come home and watch television and , at weekends , I 'd maybe ask to go to the pictures , But I had n't really made any friends so I was still in a very narrow circle . |
| 29 | Although the thunder and lightning had moved further off the horses were still in a very nervous state when the roar of flames over their heads drove them wild so that they were very difficult to handle . |
| 30 | The motor trade is still in a very precarious state , with many dealers just treading water and others going bust . |