Example sentences of "[vb pp] very [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1988 considerable consternation was created , not least among teachers who had generally responded very positively to the TGAT report , by the leak of a letter about the report from the Prime Minister 's secretary to Kenneth Baker 's secretary . |
| 2 | The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country . |
| 3 | Snow had come very early in the year , but all of October had been so intensely cold that no one was really surprised to see such a heavy fall , although there had been no sign of it when they entered the hall . |
| 4 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 5 | If there is a need for legislation in areas of prison policy , surely this is one area that ought to be considered very quickly by the Government . |
| 6 | Thus state day nurseries became confined very largely to the children of poor and needy parents , often single parents . |
| 7 | The crisis is seen as being located very specifically within the prison system — it is not seen as a crisis of the whole penal system , or of the criminal justice system , let alone as a crisis of society as a whole . |
| 8 | The City and the County Councils have looked very seriously at the erm traffic study that the Oxford Preservation Trust commissioned , and they are working on it and working on ways of implementing it within the City centre . |
| 9 | The Party was very conscious of the fact that in spite of its large majority it had fared very badly in the inner urban areas , and it was without question this result which prompted Mrs Thatcher to state immediately after the election that policies for the inner city were to have top priority . |
| 10 | This aspect is being addressed very successfully by the Medical Audit Advisory Groups . |
| 11 | It , it is n't being approached very vigorously at the moment , er in a general sense because of two things . |
| 12 | Yet it is interesting to read another speech , reluctantly dropped very late in the play 's completion , which both showed Christianity in some ways working with the savage world , and looked back with a different point of view to the earlier worship of a human god in the unpublished ‘ Exequy ’ poem in the Waste Land manuscripts . |
| 13 | This analysis was presented very clearly in the Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England ( Redcliffe-Maud 1969:Ch. 3 ) , but it is there to a greater or lesser extent in all the discussions of the period ( cf. |
| 14 | The temperature could be regulated very exactly for the different needs of caldarium and tepidarium . |
| 15 | The seaside resorts in the North-West of England , as elsewhere , could not have grown very far without the railways … |
| 16 | The Polytechnic of Wales has grown very considerably during the present decade . |
| 17 | Stainless steel , the dominant material in the sink market , could not meet those needs : ‘ Asterite ’ could , and its sales have grown very rapidly in the few years since its introduction . |
| 18 | 1.30 In a serious personal injury case or in a fatal case the initial calculations of loss of earnings or dependency may be made very soon after the accident , based on wage rates provided by the employers at that time . |
| 19 | Assessment of samples stored at elevated temperatures may be made very approximately on the assumption of a two-fold acceleration for each 10°C rise in temperature . |
| 20 | Transient absorption spectroscopy using femtosecond pulses has been applied very successfully to the photodissociation and predissociation of ICN and NaC1 . |
| 21 | The point of the iron should then be applied very gently to the seam only . |
| 22 | Their efforts were rated very highly by the Telegraph judges . |
| 23 | Also I have always felt very strongly against the cutting down of trees , and as a teenager in Holland , I started a campaign against the destruction of woodlands for a motorway . ’ |
| 24 | Some elements in Bonhoeffer 's criticism were met very adequately by the later development of Barth 's thought as the stress on revelation was counterbalanced by others , and the humanity rather than the otherness of God came to the fore . |
| 25 | The unit operated very effectively during the 1980s on the Namibia/Angola border against infiltrating bands of SWAPO guerrillas who were attempting to destabilise the country by ambush and assassination . |
| 26 | This sequence is probably going to be shot very early in the morning , and it will take great strength of mind to get it all together . |
| 27 | They can be seen very clearly in the work of Juan Miró . |
| 28 | ( 22 ) Margaret is a rather meteorological expert they bought some extremely clerical collars This effect is seen very clearly in the cases where the same word can be used in each of the different ways ; thus the adjective musical can perfectly well be modified for intensity when it is used ascriptively : ( 23 ) even as a child Naomi had a very musical voice but when it is associative , the result is again unacceptable : ( 24 ) we 've found a legal text and a very musical treatise 2.6 It is not necessary to be a linguist to feel that there is a difference in the two ways of using attributives . |
| 29 | We have seen very recently in the South Pacific how one species can rapidly wipe out vast populations of other organisms . |
| 30 | DET expenditure on black education has certainly risen very significantly during the 1980s , with per capita expenditure for all educational levels rising from 176 rand per pupil ( 1988 rand ) in 1980/81 to 595 rand in 1987/88 , though much of this increase had been taken up by the rising bill for teachers ' salaries . |