Example sentences of "[is] very [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , erm my Right Honourable Friend is very keen to see these alterations which we ha which he has proposed erm become erm to take effect , because he thinks that they are right and because a great deal of effort has gone into get it right . |
| 2 | He is very keen to ensure each gets a proper reply so letters are sent to the relevant department . |
| 3 | He is very keen to ensure each gets a proper reply so letters are sent to the relevant department . |
| 4 | Barbara Jackson of Kodak UK was very pleased with the way the efforts to bring photography to the classroom had gone , and is very keen to keep this sort of working dialogue with schools going . |
| 5 | Hewlett-Packard Co also has ties with Siemens , which buys Apollo-derived machines OEM , and is very keen to get more adherents for its Precision Architecture RISC . |
| 6 | It is very easy to lose half a letter of the headline , or a key element of the illustration , unless both typographer and art director are very careful ; and it is very easy , too , to find you have produced two separate , incomplete pages of advertising with no real link between them . |
| 7 | It is very easy to have all the right motives , intentions and objectives ; it is often very difficult to put these intentions effectively into practice . |
| 8 | While you are contracted for a West End show , it is very irresponsible to go such a long way . |
| 9 | Does the Minister agree that to resolve the problem it is very important to engage those countries in the United Nations and that as Byelorussia and Ukraine are already members of the United Nations it becomes imperative — in view of his earlier answer about Russia remaining a nuclear power — for them to obtain membership of the United Nations and of the Security Council in their own right ? |
| 10 | It is important that if this staff member should leave , his departure should be anticipated as early as possible and the patient helped to accept it , otherwise it is very likely to provoke another crisis and further admission . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it is very difficult to do any harm with ‘ first aid ’ Homoeopathy using low potency remedies . |
| 12 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 13 | It is very difficult to do this without producing a ‘ blurred-vision ’ effect in the resist — so you may well have to scrap that attempt , recoat the board with resist and start all over again . |
| 14 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 15 | It is very difficult to date these artefacts , owing to their poor condition , but here goes : |
| 16 | The session failure rate would have been considerably lower , but it is very difficult to estimate this from log data alone . |
| 17 | It is very difficult to seal all the cracks in a building so a more effective method is to create an underpressure beneath the floor to counter that in the building . |
| 18 | It is very difficult to make this transition — here , again , some flyers never do- and there are many , varied ways which have been suggested to help in the initial stages . |
| 19 | However , it is very difficult to locate such specialists individually . |
| 20 | It is very difficult to produce this type of game but I am asking my players to do it . |
| 21 | It is very difficult to cover all the possible eventualities in the forty-odd hours of the PPL course , but I now spend more time teaching emergencies connected with power reductions . |
| 22 | So it 's that is very alarming to think that erm somebody putting it about or happy to make available to others information about my domestic arrangements and my habits . |
| 23 | Despite what one or two people may have told you , it is very unusual to recoup all your expenditure by reaping a vast profit when you come to sell . |
| 24 | It is very gratifying to see such an interest in Scottish questions . |
| 25 | Although a government which enjoys the confidence of a comfortable majority of Members of the House of Commons is very unlikely to encounter any difficulty in securing such sanction , the necessity for it remains the ultimate weapon in the hands of the House . |
| 26 | The parish is delighted to have her assistance , and Sister Marie is very happy to have this new mission . |
| 27 | Robertson said : ‘ It was one of these matches that could have gone either way , but it 's very disappointing to lose all three sets on a 7-6 scoreline . ’ |
| 28 | But , yes I mean it 's very good to have this kind of feedback system when |
| 29 | erm , where I set out my interpretation of what that means , and I do n't think it 's very helpful to read that out to you , but I think you will find that it 's er erm a very broad er description of what the new settlement should be seeking to achieve , now Mr erm I think has misunderstood our position on this question of erm the appropriate size for the new settlement , and I think if I 'm correct he suggested that we were promoting a a size of fourteen hundred , the point I think I would make is that the larger the new settlement erm the greater the range and the quality of services and facilities that can be provided , and I think you have to distinguish between what developers say they are prepared to provide , on the one hand in a new settlement , whatever the size , the quality of the retail or recreational social facility that occupies that physical provision , and also its long term viability , and I would suggest that a larger new settlement of the size that we are suggesting , is much more likely to er attract a range of quality providers of services and facilities than a smaller new settlement , and also Mr Grantham er raised the issue of the question of the development program , and what might be expected in terms of services and erm during the development program , and of course I think that would be a matter for any specific proposal , or a ma a matter of discussion between the local planning authority concerned and the developer , and I would expect it to be something erm that was included within a section one O six agreement . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's very pleasant to hear this , ’ he said , not at all shocked by my honesty . |