Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that looks a very simple sort of thing , it 's quite large , a man stands about that high . |
| 2 | This imposes a very onerous obligation on the defenders ' agents and their insurers because the list must cover not only those documents in the hands of the solicitor or the insurer , but also those held by the insured . |
| 3 | This involves a very broad range of industries , including mass production factories , older , heavier industries and manufacture by the public sector , the private sector and foreign firms ; it is accompanied by job losses in supporting service industries such as docks and railways , and , with renewed vigour in the period after 1985 , by coal mining . |
| 4 | This involves a very considerable degree of planning and administrative skill together with sufficient maturity at both local and national level to recognise what can be devolved and what should be maintained as a national concern . |
| 5 | This represents a very great pool of linguistic competence . |
| 6 | This represents a very substantial penalty and will undoubtedly make other owners and builders much more cautious over alterations . |
| 7 | It is thought that this represents a very real social phenomenon , either because of the nature of the settlement or because it was a general policy to dispose of rubbish away from the settlements , perhaps as manure in the fields , and is clearly not the product of poor preservation as has tended to be assumed ( Astill and Lobb 1982 , p. 140 ) . |
| 8 | This represents a very big , complex and highly aggregated market within which can be discerned a very large number of smaller labour markets . |
| 9 | This represents a very significant proportion of the world 's airline capacity , and whatever was the cause of this accident could have substantial repercussions threatening the safety of anyone who flew in this type of aircraft , not to mention the financial implications involved . |
| 10 | Only 16 butterflies were seen but these are seasonal insects and this represents a very satisfactory result for one month 's search . |
| 11 | This offers a very high level ( up to eighty per cent ) of grant aid to repair those field barns in Swaledale that remain unconverted . |
| 12 | This has a very Spanish flavour to it . |
| 13 | Either way , a successful village like this has a very different look from those Basque villages which have not so far been resettled . |
| 14 | This has a very significant influence on costs . |
| 15 | This illustrates a very important property of any set of lines through a point on a surface which are tangential ( share the same direction ) at that point . |
| 16 | This includes a very wide range of possibilities , including developing nature trails , provision of local amenities , reinstatement of neglected woodlands and provision of facilities for development of small starter businesses . |
| 17 | This forms a very firm woven fabric with sort floats of weaving yarn . |
| 18 | ( Note that this requires a very good and efficient health information system ) |
| 19 | This requires a very nutritious medium and therefore the usual one consisting of sand or clay with peat or bulb-fibre or loam should be used . |
| 20 | Its main potential would seem to lie in its use by individuals working alone or perhaps in small groups , and this requires a very different approach to materials design . |
| 21 | This sounds a very broad and fine principle , and so it is . |
| 22 | This creates a very strong impression of a foreign accent , and is something that should obviously be avoided . |
| 23 | This creates a very negative impression in what should be a totally positive document . |
| 24 | This creates a very personal album of immense interest , with location paintings from places as varied as Windsor and Wensleydale , Balmoral and Botswana . |
| 25 | This creates a very magnificent picture of the church . |
| 26 | All this seems a very curious — indeed an eccentric — arrangement on the part of Nature who , if she had had a proper training in the theory of fibrous composite materials , would surely have known better . |
| 27 | This seems a very strange form of happiness ! |
| 28 | This seems a very fair deal , for the transformation is pretty dramatic . |
| 29 | At any rate this seems a very flimsy basis for the suggestion that the praetor fideicommissarius had jurisdiction over legacies too ; and on procedural grounds one would rather resist that proposition . |
| 30 | As a course this demands a very full timetable , but it offers strongly-motivated students an opportunity to develop in parallel the intellectual and practical sides of their study of art . |