Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 2 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 3 | Try to find out at the very least what position the interviewer holds with the company and whether you will be working directly with him or her . |
| 4 | The early campaigns seem to continue through to the very different style used today . |
| 5 | Finally , whatever else you do , if you want to keep up with the very latest versions of software , it 's pointless pirating . |
| 6 | They seemed to stretch back for a very long way and Nuadu , narrowing his eyes , trying to find his bearings , thought that they must go back and back into the hillside behind the road and deep within the earth . |
| 7 | Even if this is difficult to provide , candidates should not have to wait around in a very public area . |
| 8 | ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug … |
| 9 | The trade of elephant catching and training is likely to die out in the very near future . |
| 10 | Which rather proves a point that in fact it was a low period , and therefore if you take a low period historically , which is er includes a a boom in inverted commas , within that , then overall you 're going to end up with a very low figure er in total . |
| 11 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |