Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] very [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And your man would come up to us afterwards and say , ‘ Those were some very obscure cover versions you were playing tonight , but I liked a few of them … yeah , quite interesting . |
| 2 | There was that very nice place in Keswick where he 'd always longed to take a smart woman to stay a day or two . |
| 3 | Initially on that first night after the operation there was that very finite feeling : ‘ Oh my God I have cancer that means death . ’ |
| 4 | There was another very good performance in the Pacific which produced a profit of $1.8m against a loss in the same period last year of $1.4m . |
| 5 | But there was another very important influence on policy . |
| 6 | But there was another very significant aspect of adaptability which indicates the continual blurring , by almost everyone concerned , of economic and social ( moral ) issues . |
| 7 | The common denominator was this very strong sense of a deep humanity . |
| 8 | Now there was this very disquieting development in one of the most sensitive areas , the gas fields in the southern North Sea . |
| 9 | Throughout 1967 there was this polarization going on , and when 1968 came along there was this very rapid divergence . |
| 10 | There was this very formal letter from the Prime Minister 's office , giving me notice of the award and , in the normal way , I understand , asking if I would accept it . |
| 11 | I think I took a lot of my ideas about class from my dad and not from my mum who was this very ladylike woman , who was involved in the church and never really wanted you to say anything nasty about class or anything like that . |
| 12 | What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ? |
| 13 | There was some very insecure playing , too . |
| 14 | King also saluted his rock solid back four , saying : ‘ There was some very good defending . |
| 15 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 16 | She had enough to do without him coming and bringing her what she could tell , from the little she 'd read so far , was some very important work . |
| 17 | But I would never want to upset anyone unless there was some very positive idea which we must try . |
| 18 | I marvelled at the stone coloured like golden honey , the crockets and pinnacles , the needle-points aspiring to heaven , the bosses and badges blazoned in gules , azure , or … it was all very heady stuff . |
| 19 | He had to admit it — it was all very well hunting and growing things , but what you got was n't a patch on the food you found around humans . |
| 20 | The domestic political stress caused in West Germany by such an influx ( which also of course , further undermined the East German economy , since many were skilled and professional people ) was one very good reason why Bonn was prepared to pour aid into its neighbour . |
| 21 | There was one very large unit of 120 sows , taking 1,100 pigs through to finishing ; the other units had 10–20 breeding sows and 180–400 fattening pigs . |
| 22 | She was getting ready to go out , however , when , in a flash of unwanted certainty , she knew that there was one very big reason why she should n't be attracted to Ven — because he was not attracted to her , and it was all one-sided , that was why ! |
| 23 | Yo do you there was one very bonny lass and she was on the er , they , they had erm composite programme the other the other week and she was on that again . |
| 24 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |