Example sentences of "[vb base] a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These indicate the remains of a tower , and , together with the corbels and tympanum , suggest a very fine church in the twelfth century .
2 It will be seen that these explanations of transmission teaching and its associated connection with teaching quality ( or rather , its lack ) , suggest a very different set of policy implications than those currently in political fashion .
3 The above figures summarise a very difficult year for all in the group .
4 They establish a structured approach to the management of health and safety and make more explicit what employers have to do to comply with the general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act and as such they provide a very useful tool in our efforts to improve health and safety at work .
5 In addition to ITV1 , Channel 4 and BSkyB , there are also cable TV services which can , in theory , provide a very wide range of continental channels , as well as the full range of UK-originated and UK satellite services .
6 On pricing , Brown and Sibley ( 1986 ) provide a very thorough coverage of nonlinear outlay/pricing schedules .
7 They provide a very general introduction to particular occupational areas .
8 Here are several other suggestions that would make excellent messages for various occasions , and provide a very different way of expressing your feelings :
9 That level of income has been described by the Prime Minister and the Government as a generous settlement for students , but the citizens advice bureaux provide a very different description .
10 Bankers , accountants , commercial and public services , and advisory services all provide a very important contribution to the farming sector but all this sound advice could come to little or nothing if the human factor , that is the farmer or his family , could not translate that advice into practice on the farm .
11 They provide a very active participation in the many voluntary groups supporting the revolution and contribute much more than previously to development through participation in the labour force .
12 The ideas developed so far provide a very incomplete story when the flow is adjacent to a solid boundary .
13 ‘ We are confident we can meet ACL 's requirements and provide a very high level of service , not only to ship owners but also to hauliers , ’ he said .
14 The staff are all experienced nursery/playgroup workers and provide a very high standard of child care .
15 I think they 're a very dangerous mode of education because they provide a very stereo-typed image of everything , everybody that they 're talking about if they 're talking about sex , they presume to be able bodied , they 're presumed to be white generally , they 're presumed to be heterosexual , if they 're talking about homosexual then , it 's definitely male lesbians
16 ‘ They say she is a very good housekeeper and I want a very good housekeeper because my house will be perfect .
17 ‘ One of the problems of the site is the authorities want a very grandiose scheme with the roadworks , ’ said the spokesman .
18 It does n't have to be a close fit , initially you want a very loose fitting so there 's a draught .
19 However , you do n't want to slip too many needles side by side unless you want a very loopy effect .
20 Davidoff and Hall have recently underlined not only the strong conception of ministerial leadership possessed by John Angell James at Carr 's Lane in Birmingham — ‘ We occupy a very public station ; like the angel standing in the sun we must be seen ’ — but demonstrated his ability to lead his chapel in alignment with Anglican reformers to work for antislavery , temperance and projects of moral benevolence within the community .
21 These two categories of superhuman beings occupy a very special place in Chewong philosophy ; they are both — in their different ways — the alter ego of humans .
22 In the heart of the English countryside we grow a very special flower .
23 After a while , they left the watercolour ( 'Not a very adventurous subject , ’ Isobel said ) and found two chairs in a corner .
24 While the report may not completely resolve the question for your Lordships , it provides in the first place a very useful summary of the state of the law in 1966 .
25 Complicated things , everywhere , deserve a very special kind of explanation .
26 He always put a very tiny pencil mark on the end papers at the back of every book he read , his very own secret sign .
27 put a , put a very strong piece in Playback this month about audio description and seeing that , it , you know , how disappointed it is for how , I 've , I 've explained how much work we 've put into er , er
28 He said : ‘ We put a very fair bid on the table , and I do n't want to get involved in an auction .
29 Although Bt is a single species of bacterium , many thousands of different strains have been isolated and show a very wide range of activity spectra against insects — particularly Lepidoptera ( moths and butterflies ) , but also Diptera and Coleoptera ( flies and beetles ) .
30 The single cell recording studies carried out on rhesus monkeys show a very good correlation between the blobs and wavelength tuning , suggesting a role in colour vision .
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